Transcending the Self an Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Despite the Popularity of Object Relations Theories, These Theories Are Often Abstract, With the Relation Between Theory and Clinical Technique Left Vague and Unclear. Now, in Transcending the Self an Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy, Summers Answers the Need for an Integrative Object Relations Model That Can Be Understood and Applied by the Clinician in the Daily Conduct of Psychoanalytic Therapy. Drawing on Recent Infancy Research, Developmental Psychology, and the Works of Major Theorists, Including Bollas, Benjamin, Fairbairn, Guntrip, Kohut, and Winnicott, Summers Melds Diverse Object-Relational Contributions Into a Coherent Viewpoint With Broad Clinical Applications. the Object Relations Model Emerges As a Distinct Amalgam of Interpersonal/Relational and Interpretive Perspectives. It is a Model That Can Help Patients Undertake the Most Gratifying and Treacherous of Personality Journeys That Aiming at the Transcendence of the Childhood Self. Self-Transcend