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Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy Revised, Enlarged, Subsequent Edition
Author(s): Althea J. Horner PhD (Author)
- Publisher: Jason Aronson Publishers
- Publication Date: 1 July 1977
- Edition: Revised, Enlarged, Subsequent
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0876686463
- ISBN-13: 9780876686461
Book Description
‘Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach with beneficial results.’ ―Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr. The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic A Jason Aronson Book
Editorial Reviews
Review
No book with which we are familiar presents as good an account of the clinical application of the … psychoanalytic viewpoint as Object Relations and the Developing Ego in Therapy. No other exposition breathes life into these abstract principlesas well as this volume does… — Raphael Stern Dr. Horner presents rich and useful ideas for formulating and working dynamically with severely limited patients. Her integrative formulation of preoedipal pathology is both useful and practical… — Edward R. Shapiro Perhaps the acid test for any book on psychoanalytic theory is the light it sheds on the complex problems that a therapist faces. This book passes that test with flying colors. I now see my patients in a different light and I have changed my approach withbeneficial results… — Samuel L. Bradshaw, Jr.
About the Author
Dr. Althea Horner is an Honorary Member of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and Society and a Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and has been writing and articles and books for forty years. While Dr. Horner has retired from clinical practice, she continues to write in Pasadena, California.
