Object Relations Family Therapy

Offers an indepth and thoughtful exploration of the relevance of psychoanalysis to family therapy.

David E. Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry, as well as a former president of AASECT. He is the author of The Sexual Relationship and co-author of Between Two Worlds: The Transition from School to Work. Jill Savege Scharff is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult and child psychiatry. She is the editor of Foundations of Object Relations Family Therapy.

Foundations of object relations family therapy; adolescent development in the family context; shared unconscious fantasy and projective identification; the analytic group-interpretive approach; integration of individual and family therapy; an object relations appraoch to sexuality in family life; object relations family therapy.