Crowdsourced Recommendations for an Intro to Object Relations Course

Papers

Object Relations in Clinical Practice by Betty Joseph

Hate in the Countertransference by DW Winnicott

The Use of an Object by DW Winnicott

Mind and its Relation to the Psyche-Soma by DW Winnicott

Our Adult World and Its Roots in Infancy by Melanie Klein

The Concept of Internal Object Relations by Thomas Ogden

A New Reading of the Origins of Object-Relations Theory by Thomas Ogden

Why Read Fairbairn by Thomas Ogden

The Origin and Nature of the “Object” in the Theories of Klein and Fairbairn by
Thomas Ogden

Attacks on Linking by WR Bion

A Theory of Thinking by WR Bion

The Repression and Return of Bad Objects by Ronald Fairbairn

Endopsychic Structure Considered in Terms of Object-Relationships by Ronald

Fairbairn

Synopsis of an Object-Relations Theory by Ronald Fairbairn

Ghosts in the Nursery: A Psychoanalytic. Approach to the Problems of Impaired
Infant - Mother Relationships by Selma Fraiberg

The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference

The Elusive Good Object by Lynne Zeavin

The Experience of the Skin in Early Object-relations by Esther Bick

The Nature and Function of Phantasy by Susan Isaacs

Notes on Symbol Formation by Hanna Segal

Chapters

“Delinquency as a Sign of Hope” from Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a

Psychoanalyst by DW Winnicott

“The Function of Dreams “by Hanna Segal from The Dream Discourse Today

Chapter 12 (container-contained) from Learning From Experience by WR Bion

“Certain Functions of Introjection and Projection in Early infancy” by Paula Heimann

from Developments in Psychoanalysis

“Introduction” and “The Structure of Experience” from The Primitive Edge of

Experience by Thomas Ogden

Books

An Introduction to Object Relations by Livinia Gomez

The Little Psychotherapy Book: Object Relations in Practice by Allan Frankland

Primer of Object Relations by Jill and David Scharff

Psychoanalytic Object Relations Therapy by Althea Horner

Object Relations Therapy: Using the Relationship by Sheldon Cashdan

Self and Others: Object Relations Theory in Practice by N. Gregory Hamilton

From Inner Sources: New Directions in Object Relations Therapy by N. Gregory

Hamilton

Love, Guilt and Reparation by Melanie Klein

A Mind of One’s Own: A Kleinian View of Self and Object by Robert Caper

Immaterial Facts: Freud’s Discovery of Psychic Reality and Klein’s Development of

His Work by Robert Caper

The Function of Dreams by Hanna Segal from The Dream Discourse Today

Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text by Frank

Summers

Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory by Jay Greenberg and Stephen Mitchell

The Wolf Man’s Magic Word: A Cryptonymy by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok

Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self by Harry Guntrip

Matrix of the Mind by Thomas Ogden

Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations ed. By James Grotstein and Donald
Rinsley

Playing and Reality by DW Winnicott

The Taming of Solitude: Separation Anxiety in Psychoanalysis by Jean-Michel
Quinodoz

The Basic Fault: Therapeutic Aspects of Regression by Michael Bailint

Films

Another Woman by Woody Allen

Bliss by Lance Young