How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to the anxieties and resistances he shows when he seeks to change himself? To answer this question is the task which the author sets himself. After assessing Freud's basic principles, the author proceeds to make a uniquely comprehensive review of subsequent theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis with special emphasis on the work of Fairbairn and Melanie Klein. From a background of philosophy, theology and social studies, the author went on to take a personal psychoanalysis and to become a full time psychotherapist, and it is from this combination of wide knowledge and intensive work with people beset by conflicts in their relations with themselves and others that he evolves his views.
Foreword , Authors Preface , Preliminaries , Introduction: Practical
and Theoretical Purposes , Psychology and Psycho-Analysis , Psychiatry and
Psycho-Analysis , The Development of Psycho-Analytical Theory , The
Development of Psycho-Analytical Theory , Thesis. Dynamic Psychobiology , The
Starting-Point Classic Freudian Psychobiology , The Later Freudian Structural
Theory and Analysis of the Ego , Process Theory and Personal Theory ,
Antithesis. Dynamic Psychosociology , The Culture Pattern Theory and
Character Analysis , H. S. Sullivans Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry ,
Emerging Synthesis Psychodynamic Theory of the Person and Personal
Relations , The Relation of Melanie Kleins Work to Freud , The Psychodynamic
Theory of Melanie Klein , Melanie Klein: Theory of Early Development and
Psychotic Positions , The Relation of Fairbairns Work to Freud:
Fairbairns Approach to Psycho-Analysis , Fairbairn: A Complete
Object-Relations Theory of the Personality , Fairbairn: A Complete
Object-Relations Theory of the Personality , Melanie Klein and Fairbairn ,
Conclusions , The Basic Forms of Human Relationship , Theory and Therapy
Harry Guntrip
