Conference: Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition

For clinicians, this theory offers a "penetrating and useful" model for understanding why patients—particularly those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or trauma histories—cling so fiercely to toxic relationships. The Core: Libido is Object-Seeking

At the heart of Ronald Fairbairn’s revolutionary contribution to psychoanalysis is a single, profound shift: human beings are not driven by biological urges for pleasure, but by an innate, fundamental need for . While Freud saw the mind as a cauldron of drives, Fairbairn viewed it as a structure built entirely from the history of our connections with others.

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Conference: Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition

For clinicians, this theory offers a "penetrating and useful" model for understanding why patients—particularly those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) or trauma histories—cling so fiercely to toxic relationships. The Core: Libido is Object-Seeking Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory in the Clin...

At the heart of Ronald Fairbairn’s revolutionary contribution to psychoanalysis is a single, profound shift: human beings are not driven by biological urges for pleasure, but by an innate, fundamental need for . While Freud saw the mind as a cauldron of drives, Fairbairn viewed it as a structure built entirely from the history of our connections with others. but by an innate

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