Helen Sheehan – The Concept of Anxiety Within An Object Relations Perspective
 
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 24-31
 
In a paper submitted to the British Journal of Medical Psychology in 1943, Ronald Fairbairn, the Edinburgh based psychoanalyst wrote
Freud’s libidio theory has remained relatively unquestioned. This is a situation which I have come to regard as most regrettable … In my opinion it is high time that psychopathological inquiry which in the past has been successively...