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Personal Relations Theory: Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie

Author(s) : Graham S. Clarke

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Personal relationships concern us all, they are essential to our becoming who we are and constitute our most vital experience of what it is like to be alive and human. This book proposes a new approach to understanding who we are based on the work of Ronald Fairbairn, John Macmurray and Ian Suttie, whose ideas provide a positive perspective on our future collective possibilities.

Subjects discussed in depth include:
* Internal objects and inner reality: Fairbairn and Klein
* Fairbairn's theory of art in the light of his mature model of mind
* The preconscious and psychic change in Fairbairn's model of mind
* The politics of attachment theory and personal relations theory: Fairbairn, Suttie and Bowlby

The combination of Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie presented here forms an original strand of object relations theory, which has implications and consequences for a wide spectrum of concerns. This book will be of value to anyone interested in psychoanalysis, especially in relation to politics, society and the arts.

Contents:
Introduction: Personal Relations Theory. Part I. Why Fairbairn? Fairbairn's model of mind. Fairbairn's theory and some philosophical interpretations of Freud. Internal objects and inner reality: Fairbairn and Klein. Fairbairn's theory of art in the light of his mature model of mind. The preconscious and psychic change in Fairbairn's model of mind. Part II. Fairbairn, Macmurray and Suttie: towards a personal relations theory. Fairbairn and Macmurray: psychoanalytic studies and critical realism. The politics of attachment theory and personal relations theory: Fairbairn, Suttie and Bowlby

Author Biography:
Graham S. Clarke originally studied Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He then moved into Computing and worked at City University, Anglia Polytechnic University and, for the last 20 years, the University of Essex where he is Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies.