Stephen A. Mitchell trained as a psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and through such influential works as Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (1988), Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis (1993), Influence and Autonomy in Psychoanalysis (1997), and his final volume, Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity (2000), both developed and championed the theory of relational psychoanalysis.

Introduction to the Classic Edition by Donnel Stern Part I: From Ghosts to Ancestors: The Psychoanalytic Vision of Hans Loewald 1. Language and Reality 2. Drives and Objects Part II: Levels of Organization 3. An Interactional Hierarchy 4. Attachment Theory and Relationality 5. Fairbairn's Object-Seeking: Between Paradigms 6. Intersubjectivity: Between Expressiveness and Restraint in the Analytic Relationship

This book expresses Mitchell's vision for the theory of Relational Psychoanalysis, providing his most-developed expression of its foundations. Now republished in this Classic Edition, Mitchell's ideas are brought back to the psychoanalytic readership, complete with an introduction by Donnel Stern.