Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles Editor

David E. Scharff, M.D., is Co-Director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, a Teaching Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and former Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is author and co-author of seven books and many articles, and maintains a private practice in adult, child, psychoanalysis, couple, and family therapy. Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles, the daughter of W. R. D.Fairbairn, was born and raised in Edinburgh. She was a medical student at Edinburgh University from 1945-47 and holds a BA in the History of Ideas from Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). Her current doctoral research project in philosophy at Kingston University is entitled "The Origins of Fairbairn's Theory of Object Relations". This volume covers Fairbairn's clinical and theoretical papers published after those collected in Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality. Volume II contains his early unpublished papers and lectures prior to Psychoanalytic Studies, as well as his papers published in the 1930s on applied psychoanalysis.