title: The relational tradition: landscape and canon.
abstract: This essay charts the origins, influences, and evolution of the relational tradition in contemporary psychoanalysis. Considering the theoretical and philosophical influences from nineteenth-century Americans like William James and C. S Pierce, and noting the seminal modern work of Steven Mitchell and Jay Greenberg in opening a critique of one-person focused drive theory, the essay follows developments over a quarter century. Hallmarks of the relational approach-social construction, two-person psychologies, multiple self-states, social regulation and construction of identities like gender and sexual orientation, and an evolving theory of clinical practice-are reviewed. New developments in clinical theory, in the study of identity categories, in the work on embodiment and enactment, and in developmental models are also reviewed.
authors.affiliation: NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
authors.forename: Adrienne E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy