title: Divergences and convergences between strategic and psychodynamic therapy.
abstract: Although psychodynamic and strategic therapy have very different starting points, they have evolved in converging directions under the Zeitgeist which favors self-actualization and have met similar dilemmas concerning the therapist's attitude towards the issues of power and knowledge. The Winnicottian concept of "therapy as play" is suggested as a solution to the therapist's dilemma on the use of power in both dynamic and strategic models and as a conceptual bridge between them.
authors.affiliation: Jerusalem Mental Health Center-Child Division, Ezrat Nashim-Herzog Memorial Hospital, Israel.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology