
Fairbairn & Guntrip: Origins of Object-Relations
Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth
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The Scizoid - The Final Split
Harry guntrick proposed an additional split, which he communicated to fairbairn. The idea here is that when heaven goes to hell repeatedly, the patient can fall into a kind of despair. Good always turns bad. And this is so painful that a part of the patient gives up and he goes into a retreat. He goes into an underground bunker. This guntrip the regresd ego. So in the case of all three phaces of the bad object, some people give up. They become scizoid patients, withdrawing from object relations into their own internal world. A. Guntrip wrote about scizoid personalities who are very hard to access... they've gone into
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