Object Relations and Social Relations: The Implications of the Relational Turn in Psychoanalysis

by Simon Clarke, Herbert Hahn, Paul Hoggett

This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters, complements, or extends existing object relations (Kleinian and Independent) traditions. Second, to consider some of the implications of the relational turn for the application of psychoanalytic concepts and methods beyond the consulting room. The emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855755637
• ISBN13: 9781855755635
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.0"