Graham S Clarke, David E Scharff

• Series Editors’ Foreword , Introduction , Introduction , Prologue , Historical , From instinct to self: the evolution and implications of W. R. D. Fairbairn’s theory of object relations , From Oedipus to Antigone: Hegelian themes in Fairbairn , Making Fairbairn’s psychoanalysis thinkable: Henry Drummond’s natural laws of the spiritual world , Splitting in the history of psychoanalysis: from Janet and Freud to Fairbairn, passing through Ferenczi and Suttie , Fairbairn, Suttie, and Macmurray—an essay , Religion in the life and work of W. R. D. Fairbairn , Fairbairn and homosexuality: sex versus conscience , Fairbairn in Argentina: the “Fairbairn Space” in the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA) , Some comments about Ronald Fairbairn’s impact today , Clinical , Why read Fairbairn? , On the origin of internal objects in the works of Fairbairn and Klein and the possible therapeutic consequences , Fairbairn: Oedipus reconfigured by trauma , Sitting with marital tensions: The work of Henry Dicks in applying Fairbairn’s ideas to couple relationships , W. R. D. Fairbairn’s contribution to the study of personality disorders , Fairbairn: abuse, trauma, and multiplicity , Fairbairn and multiple personality , Fairbairn and “emptiness pathology” , Fairbairn’s unique contributions to dream interpretation , The analyst as good object: A Fairbairnian perspective , Expanding Fairbairn’s reach , Theoretical , The contribution of W. R. D. Fairbairn (1889–1965) to psychoanalytic theory and practice , John Padel’s contribution to an understanding of Fairbairn’s object relations theory , Fairbairn elaborated: Guntrip and the psychoanalytic romantic model , From Fairbairn to Winnicott , Fairbairn and Ferenczi , Mitchell reading Fairbairn , Fairbairn’s influence on Stephen Mitchell’s theoretical and clinical work , Self and society, trauma and the link , Fairbairn and Pichon-Rivière: Object relations, link, and group , The “intuitive position” and its relationship to creativity, science, and art in Fairbairn’s work , Revising Fairbairn’s structural theory , Fairbairn’s accomplishment is good science , Fairbairn and partitive conceptions of mind , Fairbairn and the philosophy of intersubjectivity , Applications , Fair play: A restitution of Fairbairn’s forgotten role in the historical drama of art and psychoanalysis , Viewing Camus’s The Stranger from the perspective of W. R. D. Fairbairn’s object relations , The family is the first social group, followed by the clan, tribe, and nation , Fairbairn’s object relations theory and social work in child welfare , Envoi