David E. Scharff, MD, is Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Board, International Psychotherapy Institute, Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.

• IntroductionDavid E. ScharffChapter 1 David E. ScharffLiving Through ObjectsChapter 2Jim PoultonWhat Does the Other (in Our Patients' Lives) Have to Do with It?Chapter 3Carl BagniniDreaming Up, Re-Finding, and Grieving Lost Objects: A Case StudyChapter 4Caroline SehonIlluminating the Shadows of the Object World Chapter 5Nancy BakalarAnalysis Interminable: The Analyst’s Self as Object for the PatientChapter 6 Ron AviramCan an Ingroup be an Internal Object: Explorations of the Social Object Representation ConceptChapter 7Juan Tubert-Oklander Beyond Subject and Object or Why Object–Usage Is Not a Good IdeaChapter 8 Jill Savege ScharffThe Internal Object in Self and OtherEpilogueDavid Scharff

"By compiling and editing this superb volume, David Scharff has made an important contribution to our field. Each of the original and informative essays in the book enhances our understanding and appreciation of the various uses of the object, a topic of great importance and one that has been much neglected in the literature. This landmark work not only corrects that defficiency, but provides a valuable educational experience for students and practitioners alike. This is a book that belongs in the library of every analytic therapist." --Theodore Jacobs, MD, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Association, Author, The Use of the Self and The Possible Profession""This highly original book hugely extends the study of the variety of ways in which we may use our objects, and for that matter, misuse them or be misused by them. Disturbing interactions between internal and powerful external objects are examined, and careful distinctions between oedipal and pre-oedipal matters always carefully observed. There is deep and moving analytic work and thinking being carried out here. Prepare to be edified and surprised!" --Anne Alvarez, Ph D, MACP. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Author, Live Company and The Thinking Heart.

David E. Scharff, MD, is Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Board, International Psychotherapy Institute, Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.

• IntroductionDavid E. ScharffChapter 1 David E. ScharffLiving Through ObjectsChapter 2Jim PoultonWhat Does the Other (in Our Patients' Lives) Have to Do with It?Chapter 3Carl BagniniDreaming Up, Re-Finding, and Grieving Lost Objects: A Case StudyChapter 4Caroline SehonIlluminating the Shadows of the Object World Chapter 5Nancy BakalarAnalysis Interminable: The Analyst’s Self as Object for the PatientChapter 6 Ron AviramCan an Ingroup be an Internal Object: Explorations of the Social Object Representation ConceptChapter 7Juan Tubert-Oklander Beyond Subject and Object or Why Object–Usage Is Not a Good IdeaChapter 8 Jill Savege ScharffThe Internal Object in Self and OtherEpilogueDavid Scharff

"By compiling and editing this superb volume, David Scharff has made an important contribution to our field. Each of the original and informative essays in the book enhances our understanding and appreciation of the various uses of the object, a topic of great importance and one that has been much neglected in the literature. This landmark work not only corrects that defficiency, but provides a valuable educational experience for students and practitioners alike. This is a book that belongs in the library of every analytic therapist." --Theodore Jacobs, MD, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Association, Author, The Use of the Self and The Possible Profession""This highly original book hugely extends the study of the variety of ways in which we may use our objects, and for that matter, misuse them or be misused by them. Disturbing interactions between internal and powerful external objects are examined, and careful distinctions between oedipal and pre-oedipal matters always carefully observed. There is deep and moving analytic work and thinking being carried out here. Prepare to be edified and surprised!" --Anne Alvarez, Ph D, MACP. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Author, Live Company and The Thinking Heart.

David E. Scharff, MD, is Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Board, International Psychotherapy Institute, Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China.

• IntroductionDavid E. ScharffChapter 1 David E. ScharffLiving Through ObjectsChapter 2Jim PoultonWhat Does the Other (in Our Patients' Lives) Have to Do with It?Chapter 3Carl BagniniDreaming Up, Re-Finding, and Grieving Lost Objects: A Case StudyChapter 4Caroline SehonIlluminating the Shadows of the Object World Chapter 5Nancy BakalarAnalysis Interminable: The Analyst’s Self as Object for the PatientChapter 6 Ron AviramCan an Ingroup be an Internal Object: Explorations of the Social Object Representation ConceptChapter 7Juan Tubert-Oklander Beyond Subject and Object or Why Object–Usage Is Not a Good IdeaChapter 8 Jill Savege ScharffThe Internal Object in Self and OtherEpilogueDavid Scharff

"By compiling and editing this superb volume, David Scharff has made an important contribution to our field. Each of the original and informative essays in the book enhances our understanding and appreciation of the various uses of the object, a topic of great importance and one that has been much neglected in the literature. This landmark work not only corrects that defficiency, but provides a valuable educational experience for students and practitioners alike. This is a book that belongs in the library of every analytic therapist." --Theodore Jacobs, MD, member of the New York Psychoanalytic Association, Author, The Use of the Self and The Possible Profession""This highly original book hugely extends the study of the variety of ways in which we may use our objects, and for that matter, misuse them or be misused by them. Disturbing interactions between internal and powerful external objects are examined, and careful distinctions between oedipal and pre-oedipal matters always carefully observed. There is deep and moving analytic work and thinking being carried out here. Prepare to be edified and surprised!" --Anne Alvarez, Ph D, MACP. Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Author, Live Company and The Thinking Heart.