Essential Papers on Object Loss: (Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis)

Compiled for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and students of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, this collection contains contributions to the understanding of the effects of object loss on adults and children. Departing from the tendency of works to leave the reader alienated from the essential clinical experience, the editor has assembled clinical, as well as descriptive and theoretical papers, each of which is introduced with a brief summary of its importance to the field of study.

Table of Contents:
Contributors: Karl Abraham, Sol Altschul, John Bowlby, Helene Deutsch, J. Marvin Eisenstadt, George Engel, Joan Fleming, Sigmund Freud, Erna Furman, Robert Furman, Edith Jacobson, Melanie Klein, Paul Lerner, Erich Lindemann, Hans W. Loewald, Marie E. McAnn, George Pollock, Hanna Segal, Chistina Sekaer, Vamik D. Volkan, and Martha Wolfenstein

About the Author :
Rita V. Frankiel is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society and a Clinical Associate Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.

Review :
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