title: Contemporary issues in the theory of therapy.
abstract: I have drawn comparisons of psychoanalysis as a process and as a treatment between 1954 and 1979. I have selected for discussion controversies centering on the subjects of transference versus reconstruction, oedipal versus preoedipal, and the cognitive-affective duality. Also considered were the quantitative factors in the negative therapeutic reaction, the fate of signal anxiety, and the role of the patient in the process of cure.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000339:Affect; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology