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Primitive Internalized Object Relations is a lucid, admirable and important contribution to the application of object-relations theory for the treatment of severely regressed patients. It deserves serious study, not only by practitioners, but also those behavioral scientists who wish to keep abreast of recent developments in psychoanalytic theory. Its theoretical basis is a happy synthesis of the thinking of such major ego psychologists as Erikson, Jacobson, Kernberg, and Mahler and such members of the various British schools of psychoanalysis as Bowlby, Fairbeirn, Klein, Rosenfeld, and Winnicott. The dominant theme of this fine book is that severely regressed patients continue to use primitive splitting as their major defense and that consistent and appropriate interpretation of its defensive uses within the framework of the transference will enable them to develop a greater capacity to repress. Dr. Volkan's well chosen, clear clinical excerpts show that skillful interpretation of the dyadic transference relationships which inevitably develop in the treatment of such cases will contribute significantly to the rectification of ego defects that have resulted from faulty early mother

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Author

Vamik D. Volkan

Publisher

New York: International Universities Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823649952

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Medicine

Updated

2026-03-24