title: Conflict in relational treatments.
abstract: Various features of relational perspectives on conflict are outlined. Points of contact and difference between relational and modern conflict theory are discussed. Five approaches to considering conflict are examined: countertransference conflict as the site of interfaces between the social and the intrapsychic; conflict within the register of speech; conflict within a theory of multiple identifications; conflict as the site of psychic change; and conflict in the context of intersubjectivity. Clinical vignettes are introduced to illustrate the scope and function of conflict within one relational perspective.
authors.affiliation: Aharris@psychoanalysis.net
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009042:Motivation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*