title: Theoretical and clinical shifts in psychoanalysis.
abstract: Shifts in psychoanalytic theory and in conceptions of psychoanalytic practice over the past 15 years are examined, with particular attention to the advent and expansion of Kohutian self-psychology within the psychoanalytic movement. It is concluded that the nature of psychoanalysis is sufficiently heterogeneous that any attempt to encompass or define the field as a whole--rather than to analyze particular formulations and developments within the field--is doomed to failure.
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology