Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy

Chapter 1 Organizing Processes and the Genesis of Object Relations
Chapter 2 The Developmental Paradigm
Chapter 3 Attachment and Detachment: Developmental and Clinical Issues
Chapter 4 The First Differentiation: Theoretical and Clinical Issues
Chapter 5 The Practicing Period: Developmental Anlage for the Grandiose Self
Chapter 6 The Second Differentiation: The Rapprochement Phase of the Separation-Individuation Process
Chapter 7 The Consolidation of Identity and Object Constancy
Chapter 8 Interaction of Oedipal and Preoedipal Issues
Chapter 9 Separation-Individuation and the False Self
Chapter 10 Character Detachment and Self-Esteem
Chapter 11 Treatment of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder by David R. Doroff, Ed.D.
Chapter 12 Diagnosis: The Medical Model, Ego Assessment, and the Developmental Model
Chapter 13 The Therapeutic Matrix
Chapter 14 Anxiety and the Integrity of the Self
Chapter 15 Refusal to Identify: Developmental Impasse

Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach withbeneficial results....