The emergence of Fordham's model of development: a new integration in analytical psychology

In bringing together some points from more than fifty years of Michael Fordham's work, I have endeavoured to show how there has emerged a consistent and original contribution to analytical psychology. In particular his ideas of the primary psychosomatic self and of whole objects preceding part objects are original to him. This contribution, with its implications for practice and theory, has in part reflected the capacity Fordham has for combining abstractions and the powerful evidence of clinical practice and observational material. This capacity has resulted in radical modifications of what I have called his emerging model of the mind (contrast Fordham, 13, with 19) and is in the best tradition of Jung's spirit and bequest to us in his body of published work.