Table of Contents

Introduction - David Scharff and Neil Skolnick 
I. Historical Connections 
Scottish Connection-Suttie-Fairbairn-Sutherland, A Quiet Revolution - Alan Harrow
Fairbairn's Contribution: An Interview with Otto Kernberg - David E. Scharff
"Developing Connections: Fairbairn's Philosophic Contribution - Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles 
II. Theoretical Connections: To the Past 
Repression and Dissociation-Freud and Janet: Fairbairn's New Model of Unconscious Process - Jody Messler Davies
Comparison of Fairbairn's Endopsychic Structure and Klein's Internal World - James S. Grotstein
The Dialectic Between W. R. D. Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion - Jeffrey Seinfeld
III. Theoretical Connections: To the Future
Fairbairn's Object Seeking: Between Paradigms - Stephen A. Mitchell 
The Good, The Bad, and the Ambivalent:  Fairbairn's Difficulty Locating the Good Object in the Endopsychic Structure - Neil J. Skolnick
Fairbairn and the Self: An Extension of Fairbairn's Theory by Sutherland - Jill Savage Scharff
IV. Artistic Connections
Alter Egos: Close Encounters of the Paranoid Kind: W. R. D. Fairbairn, Salvador Dali, and Me - Steven Z. Levine 
A Fairbairnian Analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Hilary J. Beattie
V. Clinical Connections
Fairbairn's Theory of Depression - Richard L. Rubens
Structural Sources of Resistance in the Battered Woman: A Fairbairnian Analysis - David P. Celani
Object Construction, Object Sorting, and Object Exclusion: Implications of Family and Marital Therapy for Object Relations Theory - David E. Scharff

About the Author

Neil J. Skolnick, Ph.D., is Associate Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and a faculty member and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He is co-editor of Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 1992).


David E. Scharff, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and Co-Director of the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy.

Reviews

"Read Klein's paper on paranoid-schizoid phenomena, Winnicott's elaboration of early mental life, Kohut's account of the self struggling for unity, or even Lacan's critique of traditional ego psychology, and you find glimmerings of Fairbairnian ideas at key junctures.  With the emergence of each new generations of analysts, Fairbairn receives wider recognition and greater acclaim not only for his discovery of the repressed object, but increasingly for his psychology of the split ego; this latter notion has resurfaced as perhaps the central character in contemporary accounts of the unconscious landscape.  For any reader seeking to conprehend Fairbairn's contribution fully, to gain insight into their significance and structure, this thoughtfully edited volume will be invaluable.  The contributors draw out hiterto unexamined and underappreciated aspects of Fairbairn's work." - Charles Spezzano, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California "Fairbairn, Then and Now is an exciting, panoramic exposition and appreciation of Fairbairn's work and ideas.  It charts his nodal position in the unfolding developmental history of psychoanalysis, including the ever-widening ramifications of his work for all the contemporaneous relational currents that mark the present-day paradigmatic shift in American psychoanalysis.  Several contributors offer impresive modifications and extensions of Fairbairnian thinking, while exploring its similarities to, and divergences from, the theorizing of such major British contemporaries as Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and D. W. Winnicott.  And most important, this volume is an impressive expression of, and addition to, the current reassertion of Fairbairn's status, long neglected as a (and perhaps the) seminal innovator of the object-relational (and self) paradigm that has so altered the American psychoanalytic landscape of the past two decades." - Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., Former President, International Psychoanalytic Association and American Psychoanalytic Association