• DOI:10.1080/21674086.1988.11927224
Corpus ID: 28045166

Object relations in clinical practice.

@article{Joseph1988ObjectRI,
  title={Object relations in clinical practice.},
  author={B. Joseph},
  journal={The Psychoanalytic quarterly},
  year={1988},
  volume={57 4},
  pages={
          626-42
        }
}

• B. Joseph
• Published 1988
• Philosophy, Medicine
• The Psychoanalytic quarterly

Analysts need to have a theory of object relations at the back of their minds while actually analyzing, but they also need to rediscover this theory constantly in their work with patients. This process of rediscovery depends, I suggest, upon analysts focusing attention not only on what is being communicated by words but on what is being lived out, however subtly, in the transference. This, in itself, can help in reconstructing dynamically something of the patient's history. These issues are… Expand

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