Internal Objects Revisited
Exploring the Integration of Psychoanalytic Theories
Joseph Sandler author Anne-Marie Sandler author
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Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:31st Dec '98
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This book offers an in-depth examination of the Sandlers' innovative theory, integrating crucial psychoanalytic concepts for better understanding and treatment of psychological issues.
In Internal Objects Revisited, the authors, Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler, present a comprehensive exploration of their ego-psychological object relations theory. This theory effectively integrates drive theory and object relations theory, addressing the complexities of transference and countertransference in psychoanalytic interactions. The Sandlers argue that recent developments in psychoanalytic theory have led to a significant shift, allowing for a better understanding of unconscious intrapsychic conflict and its clinical implications.
The book highlights the evolution of psychoanalytic techniques over the last few decades, emphasizing the rise of object relations theory as a crucial framework. This new perspective connects psychoanalytic metapsychology more closely to the dynamics of the therapeutic process, which enables clinicians to formulate conflicts in ways that are more beneficial for treatment. The authors meticulously dissect the various components of their contemporary ego-psychological object relations theory, demonstrating how each element contributes to a cohesive understanding of the psyche.
Internal Objects Revisited showcases the Sandlers' creativity and their significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. Their work serves as a vital resource for those looking to grasp the complexities of psychopathology through a contemporary lens. By synthesizing key concepts in psychoanalytic theory, the authors provide a solid foundation for understanding and treating a wide range of psychological issues, reaffirming psychoanalysis as a fundamental psychological science.
A significant shift has taken place in the last few decades in the way in which psychoanalytic theory has developed and in its application to psychoanalytic technique. This development has, in essence, consisted in the ascendance of object relations theory as an overall integrating frame of reference linking psychoanalytic metapsychology closer to the vicissitudes of the psychoanalytic process. This has facilitated the formulation of unconscious intrapsychic conflict in more clinically helpful ways than has the traditional frame of reference exclusively based on the conflict between drives and defensive operations.The great interest of the Sandler's approach resides in their careful and systematic elaboration of what might be called the various "building blocks" of a contemporary ego psychological object relations theory, carefully exploring each areas on its own merits before gradually taking them into an overall theoretical approach. Their contemporary ago psychological object relations theory harmoniously integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings and formulations regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psychoanalytic situation, as well as with regard to what we know about early infant development.The present volume includes key contributions of Joseph and Anne-Marie Sandler in several of the constituent areas of this new integrating frame. This volume illustrates the impressive creativity of its authors over the years and the seminal nature of their conclusions for the still evolving efforts to consolidate a contemporary psychoanalytic theory geared to cover the understanding and treatment of a broad spectrum of psychopathology. It is a confirmation of psychoanalysis as a basic psychological science.Otto Kernberg, from his Foreword
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192 pages