Bøker av Gertrude Blanck

Newly revised and updated, this text contains the contributions of major theorists on ego psychology, including new findings from current child observationalists. It demonstrates how the diagnosing therapist can distinguish among borderline, narcissistic and neurotic structures.

Advances ego psychology beyond its position as a psychoanalytic developmental psychology, and presents a developmental object relations theory. This volume revives Freud's thoughts about object relations, and adds developmental theory to provide an integrated object relations theory. It also extends the concept of transference.

Suitable for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts and social workers, this work illustrates the theory and technique of developmental psychology. It presents the unifying proposal, derived from Freud's concept of an overall ego (the Gesamt Ich), that the ego is the organizing process itself.