Dr. Guntrip concerns himself specifically with the self and its interpersonal and object relations. Through the work of Freud, Sullivan, Erikson, Horney, and other theorists, he thoroughly explores the origin, and development of the psychoanalytic theory and its relevance and application to modern therapeutic methods.As a result of his extensive work with schizoid patients who are detached, withdrawn, and unable to form real human relations, Dr. Guntrip has come to regard the self as the “fundamental psychological concept” and psychoanalysis as the “study of its growth.” According to Dr. Guntrip modern psychoanalytic therapy provides a kind of personal relationship in which the alienated, stunted self is given the potential for a healthy growth and development which put it in touch with other persons and objects. The author firmly believes that the analyst, through careful insight, recognition, and a mental awareness of the emergence of the inner core of isolation, can enable the patient to find his own reality as a person.
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Harry Guntrip is also the author of Personality Structure and Human Interaction and Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations and the Self. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and is psychotherapist and lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, Leeds University.
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This is a classic introduction to the movement known as object relations theory in psychoanalysis, as it developed in Britian after the second world war. With the growing interest in the works of Ronald Fairbairn, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and others, this book stands not only as an excellent introduction by someone who knew the people involved - and was analysed by both Fairbairn and Winnicott. It is also a creative, and at times critical, synthesis that shows the power and compassion of Guntrip's mind, and why he too is recognised as one of the great analysts to have come out of Britain.
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Quoting Freud in psychoanalysis is beginning at last to be like quoting Newton in physics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychodynamic science, schizoid problem, psychosomatic whole, libidinal ego, rejecting object, exciting object, radically new kind, instinct theory, psychic self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Melanie Klein, New York, The Hogarth Press, Ernest Jones, Hanna Segal, International Universities Press, Basic Books, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Heinz Hartmann, Bernard Apfelbaum, Edith Jacobson, Joan Riviere, Sigmund Freud, The International Psycho-Analytical Library, Anna Freud, Harry Guntrip, Pearl King New!
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Quoting Freud in psychoanalysis is beginning at last to be like quoting Newton in physics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychodynamic science, schizoid problem, psychosomatic whole, libidinal ego, rejecting object, exciting object, radically new kind, instinct theory, psychic self Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Melanie Klein, New York, The Hogarth Press, Ernest Jones, Hanna Segal, International Universities Press, Basic Books, Harry Stack Sullivan, Clara Thompson, Heinz Hartmann, Bernard Apfelbaum, Edith Jacobson, Joan Riviere, Sigmund Freud, The International Psycho-Analytical Library, Anna Freud, Harry Guntrip, Pearl King New!
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- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on page 30, page 31, and page 44
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- The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender, Updated Edition by Nancy J. Chodorow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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