ABSTRACT
John Padel reviewed a number of books and papers for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and other journals. Padel robustly disagrees with A. H. Modell about W. R. D. Fairbairn's relation to S. Freud. "Dr Modell's earlier statements about the relations between Fairbairn and Freud are simply untrue, both as implying that Fairbairn did not fundamentally adhere to Freud's theory and to psychoanalytic thinking and as stating that we are forced to choose between them." Padel comments on Sutherland's use of concepts like processes and systems instead of structures in his accounts of the make-up of personality. Padel points out that Fairbairn, like Winnicott, believed "in the importance of the real, as well as the phantasied, relationship. Padel continues to say that Fairbairn probably thought that the term narcissism was not a useful term since it was too biased towards the pathological and too derogatory as a scientific term.
