This volume opens with an examination of the origins and relevance of Fairbairn's ideas and subsequently turns to the application of his theory to the study of depression, hysteria, and to the field of liason psychiatry. Fairbairn's ideas are further applied to the study of dreams and aesthetics in two original essays.

This book presents an exceptional collection of papers born out of an international psychoanalytic congress held to celebrate Fairbairn's important contribution to psychoanalytic theory and practice.