Thinking Through Fairbairn : Exploring the Object Relations Model of Mind.

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements About the Author Preface Introduction A new interpretation of Fairbairn's "psychology of dynamic structure" Part I: Scottish Contemporaries Chapter One Suttie's influence on Fairbairn's object relations theory Chapter Two Fairbairn and Glover: object relationships and ego-nuclei Part II: Multiple Personality Disorder Chapter Three Fairbairn's thinking on dissociative identity disorder and the development of his mature theory. Chapter Four Evelyn's PhD in Wellness-a Fairbairnian understanding of the therapeutic relationship with a woman with dissociative identity disorderPart III: Film Chapter Five Failures of the "moral defence" in the films Shutter Island (Scorsese, 2010), Inception (Nolan, 2010), and Memento (Nolan, 2000): narcissism or schizoid personality disorder? Chapter Six Trauma, dissociation, and time distortion in some "puzzle" films Part IV: Relational Psychoanalysis. Chapter Seven A modest proposal: Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structure is not "between paradigms" but already a synthesis of classical and relational thinkingChapter Eight Fairbairn's object-relations-based psychology of dynamic structure, as a synthesis of the classical (thesis) and the relational (antithesis) in psychoanalytic theory Part V: Instinct, Affect, and Neuropsychoanalysis Chapter Nine The place of instincts and affects in Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structures Coda Chapter Ten Thinking through Fairbairn redux References Index.