The IPI way of working
Davis Scharff (Washington)
At the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI), psychoanalytic couple and family therapy is theoretically interpreted with the theory of object relations as formulated by Fairbairn, Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Bowlby, and which was most recently elaborated by Bollas, Mitchell, Kernberg, and Scharff and Scharff. Clinical work with families derives from the analytical principles of listening to unconscious meaning, following affects, and interpretive work animated by transference and countertransference. This is amplified by selective attention to interactive patterns in couples and families, especially the way these are driven by mutual projective identification. Recent contributions in the research fields of attachment theory, neurology and chaos theory have added to our theoretical and clinical foundation to form open systems of development, which is our psychoanalytic way of working.
Bibliography
The most recent formulations of these ideas are published in:
- NEW PARADIGMS FOR TREATING RELATIONSHIPS (2006), Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff (editors): Lanham Maryland: Jason Aronson.
- See also the books by
David and Jill Scharff, OBJECT RELATIONS FAMILY THERAPY (1987), - OBJECT RELATIONS COUPLE THERAPY (1991) et
- THE PRIMER OF OBJECT RELATIONS THERAPY (2005), all published by Jason Aronson.
IPI
International Psychotherapy Institute
(Formerly the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy)
(Formerly the International Institute of Object Relations Therapy)
6612 Kennedy Drive, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Tel: (301) 215-7377 Fax: (301) 951-6335
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Tel: (301) 215-7377 Fax: (301) 951-6335
e-mail: iiort@mindspring.com www.iiort.org