Ronald Fairbairn (1889-1964) was a Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, a central figure in the development of object relations theory. Working in relative isolation in Edinburgh, he replaced Freud's drive-based model of personality with one built entirely on relationships, arguing that the infant seeks the object (the caregiver) itself rather than the discharge of instinctual tension, and that a failure of that relationship is internalized through splitting into distinct ego structures. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceMorningside, Edinburgh, Scotland 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionFormulated a systematic object-relations theory of personality that replaced Freudian drive theory with the infant's relationship to its caregiver as the primary motivating force, describing splitting into libidinal, central and anti-libidinal ego structures. 1 Notable WorkPsychoanalytic Studies of the Personality (1952), published in the United States as An Object-Relations Theory of the Personality (1954) 1 Connections
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William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (; 11 August 1889 – 31 December 1964) was a Scottish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and a central figure in the development of the object relations theory of psychoanalysis.
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He was generally known and referred to as "W. Ronald D. Fairbairn".
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Fairbairn produced only one book-length collection of his papers called Psychoanalytic Studies of the Personality (1952) published in the United States as An Object-Relations Theory of the Personality by Basic Books in 1954.
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In contrast to Fairbairn and later Guntrip, Klein believed that both good and bad objects are introjected by the infant, the internalization of good objects being essential to the development of healthy ego function.
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