Theoretical and clinical shifts in psychoanalysis.
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.
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