1 Padel. J. (1986) ‘Narcissism - A Fairbairnian View’. British Journal of Psychotherapy. 3:256-64.
2 Fairbairn, R. (1954) ‘Observations on the nature of hysterical states’. Brit.J.Med.Psychol.27:105-25.
3 Fairbairn, R. (1958) ‘On the nature and aims of psychoanalytic treatment’. Int. J. Psycho-Anal.39:374-85.
4 Bacal, H and Newman,K. (1990)Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology
5 Birtles, E.F. and Schareff, D.E. (1994) (eds) From Instinct to Self - Selected papers of Ronald Fairbairn Vol. 1 and 2. Aronson.
6 Schareff, D.E. & Birtles, E.F. (1997) ‘From instinct to self: the evolution and implications of W.R.D. Fairbairn’s theory of object relations’. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 78:1085-104.
7 Eagle, M. (1978) Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis.
8 Fairbairn, R. (1952) Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality.
9 Freud, S. (1940) ‘Splitting of the ego in the process of defence’. S.E. 23:273-78.
10 Greenberg, J. and Mitchell,S. (1983) Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory.
11 Grotstein, J. and Rinsley, D. (1994) Fairbairn and the Origin of Object Relations. Free Association Press
12 Hughes, J. (1989) Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain.
13 Kohon, G. (1986) The British School of psychoanalysis: The Independent Tradition. P.19-80.
14 Mitchell, S. (1988) Relation Concepts in Psychoanalysis
15 Padel, J. (1985) ‘Ego in current thinking’ Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 12:273-83.
16 Rayner, E. (1991) The Independent Mind in British Psychoanalysis. Free Association Press
17 Rothstein, A. (1985) Models of the Mind. P.1-20 & p.119-146.
18 Rudnytsky, P. (1991) The Psychoanalytic Vocation.
19 Sutherland, J. (1989) Fairbairn’s Journey into the Interior.
20 Suttie, I. (1988) The Origins of Love and Hate. Free Association Books.
21 Symington, N. (1986) The Analytic Experience. P. 236-253. Free Association Books
22 Tyson, P. and Tyson,R. (1990) Psychoanalytic Theories of Development. P. 69-96.
23 Hazell,J. (1996) H.J.S. Guntrip A Psychoanalytic Biography Free Association.
24 Guntrip, H. (1968) Schizoid Phenomena, Object Relations and the Self. Hogarth.
25 Guntrip, H. (1971) Psychoanalytic Theory, Therapy and the Self. Basic Books.
26 Savage Scharff, J. (1994) The Autonomous Self: The Work of John D. Sutherland. Aronson.
27 Sutherland,J. (1965) Ronald Fairbairn Obituary. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 46:245-7.
28 Celani,D. (1993) The Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn’s Object relations Theory in the Clinical Setting. IUP.
Suggested method of reading
A good place to start reading is the 1954 paper Observations On The Nature Of Hysterical States by Ronald Fairbairn. Reading it you will be introduced to some of his fundamental ideas.
You might find it useful to then read 9, the Freud reference, including the editor’s note.
Useful summaries are available in 4, 7,10,12,14,16,17 and 21. Fairbairn himself requires careful study and his book 8, needs to be slowly worked through and in time re-read. I found it helpful to read 19 at the same time as reading 8. They can be read together chapter by chapter. On the one hand you have Fairbairn’s own text. Sutherland on the other hand gives the personal background and very useful summaries of Fairbairn’s ideas with particular reference to the psychoanalytic context within which Fairbairn was thinking and writing.
5 is an overview of Fairbairn thinking and includes many of his previously unpublished papers.
Most of the other references relate Fairbairn’s thought to others in the field, 4, to Self Psychology, 15 locats him within other British thinkers. 11, 15, 18 20 and 22 are perhaps best left to be read later.
24 and 25 contain the writings of Harry Guntrip who like Jock Sutherland was a presenter of Fairbairn’s ideas. 23 contains an account of Guntrip’s analysis with Fairbairn and also his later analysis with Winnicott. 26 is a collection of Sutherland’s papers is not just an excellent account of Ronald Fairbairn’s thought but contains Sutherland’s own original ideas.
