Object Relations: Selected Theoretical Perspectives

Author(s) : Nilanjana Sanyal, Author(s) : Manisha Dasgupta

Object Relations: Selected Theoretical Perspectives

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2026
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 218
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 98638
  • ISBN 13 : 9781041303039
  • ISBN 10 : 1041303033

Table of Contents


Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary

1. Object-relations in conceptual frame of mother-child dyad: A theoretical comprehension

2. Object relations theory: Melanie Klein’s perspective from matriarchy

3. Balint’s object-relational world: Ocnophil, philobat and creative dyads

4. Symbiosis and separation-individuation: Mahler’s views of object relations

5. Winnicott’s existential perspective of object-relations

6. Volatile trinity of Fairbairn: A new voice of object relations

7. Bion’s object-relational metatheory: A shift from positivism to psychospirituality and beyond

8. Attachment and dependency: Bowlby’s contention of object-relations from the ethological perspective

9. Analyzing flow of narcisisstic energies in self-psychological perspective: Kohut’s novelty along psychoanalytic directions

10. Ego psychological object relations model: Kernberg’s perspective of affect

11. Chodorow’s perspective on mothering: Feminist influence of gender and culture on object relations

12. Critical comparison among the selected object relations theories

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