Object Relations and Self Psychology: An Introduction by Michael St Clair (Emmanuel College, Boston, USA)
Offers students with little experimental background a how-to manual that walks them through the steps of designing, executing, interpreting, and reporting simple psychological experiments. The text covers the leading theorists in object relations theory and offers a case history for each theorist. The theorists discussed include Melanie Klein, D.W. Winnicott, Edith Jacobson, Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Heinz Kohut, and Stephen Mitchell.