Object-Relations & Self-Psychology: A User-Friendly Primer

Object-Relations and Self-Psychology anchors developmental theory and associated treatment methods alongside the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to assist clinicians and students more familiar with this tool in translating these ideas into psychoanalytical ones.

David L. Downing, PsyD, received his doctorate in clinical psychology in 1985 from the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology. He is a member of the earliest generation of professionals to receive the then-revolutionary PsyD degree. He is presently director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and a full professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Indianapolis, where he teaches a variety of subjects, including psychoanalytical theories and psychotherapy. He is also presently dean of the Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1994, president of Section V (Psychologist-Psychoanalyst Clinicians) of the American Psychological Association Division 39, and serves on the board of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology.