{"product_id":"transcending-the-self-an-object-relations-model-of-psychoanalytic-therapy","title":"Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the popularity of object relations theories  these theories are often abstract  with the relation between theory and clinical technique left vague and unclear. Now  in Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy  Summers answers the need for an integrative object relations model that can be understood and applied by the clinician in the daily conduct of psychoanalytic therapy.  Drawing on recent infancy research  developmental psychology  and the works of major theorists  including Bollas  Benjamin  Fairbairn  Guntrip  Kohut  and Winnicott  Summers melds diverse object-relational contributions into a coherent viewpoint with broad clinical applications. The object relations model emerges as a distinct amalgam of interpersonal\/relational and interpretive perspectives. It is a model that can help patients undertake the most gratifying and treacherous of personality journeys: that aiming at the transcendence of the childhood self. Self-transcendence  in Summers sense  means moving beyond the profound limitations of early life via the therapeutically mediated creation of a newly meaningful and authentic sense of self.  Following two chapters that present the empirical and theoretical basis of the model  he launches into clinical applications by presenting the concept of therapeutic action that derives from the model. Then  in three successive chapters  he applies the model to patients traditionally conceptualized as borderline  narcissistic  and neurotic. He concludes with a chapter that addresses more broadly the craft of conducting psychoanalytic therapy.  Filled with richly detailed case discussions  Transcending the Self provides practicing clinicians with a powerful demonstration of how psychoanalytic therapy informed by an object relations model can effect radical personality change. It is an outstanding example of integrative theorizing in the service of a real-world therapeutic approach.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965321146421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0881632317","price":451.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780881632316.jpg?v=1770492846","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/transcending-the-self-an-object-relations-model-of-psychoanalytic-therapy","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}