| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| The Origins of Object Relations Theory | |
| The Major Trends in Object Relations Theory and Practice | p. 3 |
| Sigmund Freud | |
| Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality | p. 27 |
| Mourning and Melancholia | p. 31 |
| The Ego and the Id | p. 34 |
| W. R. D. Fairbairn | |
| "Schizoid Factors in the Personality" | p. 43 |
| "A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneurosis" | p. 50 |
| "Endopsychic Structure Considered in Terms of Object Relationships" | p. 64 |
| "Observations on the Nature of Hysterical States" | p. 78 |
| "The Nature and Aims of Psychoanalytic Treatment" | p. 98 |
| Melanie Klein | |
| "The Psychoanalytic Play Technique: Its History and Significance" | p. 113 |
| "Some Theoretical Conclusions Regarding the Emotional Life of the Infant" | p. 130 |
| "Notes on Some Schizoid Mechanisms" | p. 136 |
| "The Origins of Transference" | p. 156 |
| "A Study of Envy and Gratitude" | p. 161 |
| D. W. Winnicott | |
| "Primitive Emotional Development" | p. 179 |
| "Hate in the Countertransference" | p. 187 |
| "Aggression in Relation to Emotional Development" | p. 194 |
| "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena" | p. 197 |
| "Metapsychological and Clinical Aspects of Regression within the Psycoanalytical Setup" | p. 211 |
| "Clinical Varieties of Transference" | p. 216 |
| "Primary Maternal Preoccupation" | p. 221 |
| "The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship" | p. 225 |
| "Ego Distortion in Terms of True and False Self" | p. 236 |
| "The Use of an Object and Relating through Identifications" | p. 248 |
| "Playing: Its Theoretical Status in the Clinical Situation" | p. 256 |
| "The Location of Cultural Experience" | p. 262 |
| "Mirror-Role of Mother and Family in Child Development" | p. 265 |
| Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry | p. 271 |
| Wilfred Bion | |
| Experiences in Groups: "Group Dynamics: A Re-View" | p. 279 |
| Second Thoughts: "The Development of Schizophrenic Thought" and "Attacks on Linking" | p. 289 |
| Summary of "The Differentiation of the Psychotic from the Non-Psychotic Personalities (1957) and "A Theory of Thinking" (1962) | p. 303 |
| Learning from Experience "The K-Link" | p. 306 |
| Attention and Interpretation: "Reality Sensuous and Psychic," "Opacity of Memory and Desire," "Container and Contained Transformed," "Prelude to or Substitute for Achievement" | p. 309 |
| Klein's Theory Elaborated | |
| Susan Isaacs' "The Nature and Function of Phantasy" | p. 321 |
| Hanna Segal's "Notes on Symbol Formation" | p. 332 |
| Herbert Rosenfeld's "A Clinical Approach to the Psychoanalytic Theory of the Life and Death Instincts" | p. 341 |
| Early Contributions of the Independent Group | |
| Michael Balint's The Basic Fault | p. 353 |
| Harry Guntrip's "The Schizoid Problem, Regression, and the Struggle to Preserve an Ego" | p. 366 |
| John Bowlby's "The Role of Attachment in Personality Development" | p. 381 |
| Transference and Countertransference | |
| Paula Heimann's "On Countertransference" | p. 393 |
| Heinrich Racker's "The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference" | p. 400 |
| Joseph Sandler's "Countertransference and Role-Responsiveness" | p. 406 |
| Betty Joseph's "Transference: The Total Situation" | p. 412 |
| Advances in Theory | |
| John Steiner's "A Theory of Psychic Retreats" | p. 421 |
| Elizabeth Bott Spillius's "Varieties of Envious Experience" | p. 427 |
| Esther Bick's "The Experience of the Skin in Early Object Relations" | p. 432 |
| Thomas Ogden's "On the Concept of all Autistic-Contiguous Position" | p. 438 |
| John D. Sutherland's "The Autonomous Self" | p. 450 |
| Advances in Clinical Concepts | |
| James Grotstein's Splitting and Projective Identification | p. 460 |
| Jill Savege Scharff's Projective and Introjective Identification and the Use of the Therapist's Self | p. 465 |
| Otto Kernberg's "Transference and Countertransference in the Treatment of Borderline Patients" | p. 471 |
| Nina Coltart's "'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' . . . or Thinking the Unthinkable in Psychoanalysis" | p. 478 |
| Patrick Casement's On Learning from the Patient: "The Internal Supervisor" | p. 484 |
| Neville Symington's "The Analyst's Act of Freedom as Agent of Therapeutic Change" | p. 488 |
| Stephen Mitchell's Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis and "Contemporary Perspectives on the Self: Toward an Integration" | p. 495 |
| Christopher Bollas's Forces of Destiny and Being a Character: "Psychic Genera" | p. 500 |
| Thomas Ogden's Subjects of Analysis | p. 505 |
| Treating Groups, Families, and Institutions | |
| Henry Ezriel's "A Psychoanalytic Approach to Group Treatment" | p. 511 |
| Henry V. Dicks' Marital Tensions: Clinical Studies Towards a Psychological Theory of Interaction | p. 517 |
| David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff's Object Relations Family Therapy | p. 523 |
| Elliott Jaques' "Social Systems as Defence Against Persecutory and Depressive Anxiety" | p. 533 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
| Credits | p. 547 |
| Index | p. 557 |
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