The Matrix of the Mind: Object Relations and the Psychoanalytic Dialogue

by Thomas H. Ogden

Book Overview

This book is exciting, original, and above all accessible-a rare combination for a text which deals in depth with psychoanalytical theory. Non-analysts are frequently both baffled and alienated by the jargon and the complexity of works which extend psychoanalytical thinking, but Ogden is revealed in this book as an outstanding communicator as well as a major theoretician. The book's subtitle is a guide to the main focus of the work, which reinterprets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568210515
• ISBN13: 9781568210513
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thomas Ogden

Thomas Ogden performs scanning of development of British Object Relations School of Psychoanalysis. He starts with Freud basis and deepens the discussion while talking about phantasies and inner structures as defined by Klein.Another deep discussion of contribution of Winnicot. For each theoretician Ogden offers fresh look and review of concepts ,after that he deepens and enriches each of them by looking back and drawing the discussion into depths of true psychoanalysis.