Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect

This book collates and clarifies psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. The author outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines empirical work presented over the past 100 years, exposing the rigidity of some existing notions.

Ruth Stein

Foreword , Introduction , Freud's Writings on Affect , Theories of Affect in the Last Years of Freud and after His Death: Jones, Brierley, Glover , Ego Psychology and the Affects , Affects and Positions: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion , Affects as Feeling States and as Value Functions: Joseph Sandler , An "Ego Psychological Object Relations" Model of Affect: Otto Kernberg , The French School: André Green-A Discourse on Affects , Recent Trends in Affect Theories in Psychology , The Relevance of Recent Trends in Theories of Emotion in Psychology and Infant Studies to Psychoanalytic Affect Theory , Conclusions and New Directions