Thinking through Fairbairn offers parallel perspectives on Fairbairn's work. It explores an extended interpretation of his 'psychology of dynamic structure' and applies that model to a number of different areas. Fairbairn's Scottish origins are explored through his relationship with the work of Ian Suttie and Edward Glover.

Part 1: Scottish Contemporaries 1. Suttie's influence on Fairbairn's oject relations theory 2. Fairbairn and Glover: object relationships and ego-nuclei Part 2: Multiple Personality Disorder 3. Fairbairn's thinking on dissociative identity disorder and the development of his mature theory 4. Evelyn's PhD in Wellness - a Fairbairnian understanding of the therapeutic relationship with a woman with dissociative indentity disorder Part 3: Film 5. Failures of the "moral defence" in the films Shutter Island (Scorsese 2010), Inception (Nolan, 2010), and Memento (Nolan, 2000): narcissism or schizoid personality disorder? 6. Trauma, dissociation, and time distortion in some "puzzle" films Part 4: Relational Psychoanalysis 7. A modest proposal: Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structure is not "between paradigms" but already a synthesis of classical and relational thinking 8. Fairbairn's object-relations-based psychology of dynamic structure, as a synthesis of the classical (thesis) and the relational (antithesis) in psycholanalytic theory Part 5: Instinct, Affect, and Neuropsychoanalysis 9. The place of instincts and affects in Fairbairn's psychology of dynamic structures 10. Thinking through Fairbairn redux