Psychoanalytical Studies of Personality (1952)
Psychoanalytical Studies of Personality (1952) is a collection of papers previously published in different reviews. The book is divided into three parts, the first being mostly theoric, the second one clinical, and the third one concerning more general issues and theoretical problems. The most interesting part, perhaps, is the first book, and the first four articles contain a large body of innovative Fairbairnean concepts. The table of contents reads:
- Part One: An Object-Relations Theory of the Personality
- Chapter I: Schizoid Factors in the Personality (1940)
- Chapter II: A Revised Psychopathology of the Psychoses and Psychoneuroses (1941)
- Chapter III: The Repression and the Return of Bad Objects (with special reference to the ‘War Neuroses) (1943)
- Chapter IV: Endopsychic Structure Considered in Terms of Object-Relationships (1944)
- Chapter V: Object-Relationships and Dynamic Structure1 (1946)
- Chapter VI: Steps in the Development of an Object-Relations Theory of the Personality1 (1949)
- Chapter VII: A Synopsis of the Development of the Author's Views Regarding the Structure of the Personality (1951)
- Part Two: Clinical Papers
- Chapter I: Notes on the Religious Phantasies of a Female Patient (1927)
- Chapter II: Features in the Analysis of a Patient with a Physical Genital Abnormality (1931)
- Chapter III: The Effect of a King's Death Upon Patients Undergoing Analysis (1936)
- Part Three: Miscellaneous Papers
- Chapter I: The Sociological Significance of Communism Considered in the Light of Psychoanalysis (1935)
- Chapter II: Psychology as a Prescribed and as a Proscribed Subject (1939)
- Chapter III: The War Neuroses—Their Nature and Significance (1943)
- Chapter IV: The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Sexual Offenders (1946)