The European Federation for Psychoanalytic in the Public Health Services (EFPP) was founded in 1991 with a number of linked objectives. At their heart was and is a determination that knowledge and treatment skills stemming from psychoanalysis should become much more widely available and applicable to the general public with mental health problems who come for help from the "caring" professions. In its short history, the EFPP has already made a considerable impact. Many of its member countries have been considerably assisted by the training standards for practitioners in psychoanalytic...

The authors show how their ego-psychological object relations theory integrates drive theory and object relations theory and does justice to recent findings regarding the vicissitudes of transference and countertransference interactions in the psycho-analytic situation.

There are few topics in psychoanalysis today more controversial than the place of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. This is a collection of papers presented at a conference held in London - with additional material - exploring the work of the principal discussants, Andre Green and Daniel Stern.