Object Relations and Social Relations

Name: Object Relations and Social Relations
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Drawing on aspects of continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, \""psycho-social studies\"" has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm in the human sciences in the UK. Psycho-social studies uses psychoanalytic concepts and principles to illuminate core issues within the social sciences. > This book has two essential aims. First, to introduce some of the key assumptions behind relational psychoanalysis to an international audience and to outline the points where this approach counters, complements, or extends existing object relations (Kleinian and Independent) traditions. Second, to consider some of the implications of the relational turn for the application of psychoanalytic concepts and methods beyond the consulting room. The emergence of what has become known as \""the relational turn\"" in psychoanalysis has interesting implications not just for clinical practice, but for other psychoanalytically informed practices, such as groupg