Robert Langs had a substantial impact on American psychoanalysis in
the 1970s and 1980s-both Freudian and Jungian -due to his
development of what he termed "the adaptive paradigm." According to
Langs, the psychoanalytic tradition had vastly underestimated the
clinical importance of adaptation, both the role adaptive problems
play in psychological and emotional conflicts as well as the
significance adaptation has for understanding unconscious
communications in clinical practice. In spite of Langs' impact on
the psychoanalysis and analytical psychology of his time, there
have been few psychoanalytic studies either of adaptation or of
Langs' adaptive paradigm since the 1980s and no attempts to link
Langs' thinking with that of Carl Jung. Adaption and Psychotherapy
gives a concentrated but complete picture of Langs' adaptive
clinical theory and also expands Langs' treatment of adaptation by
examining Jung's theory of adaptation. Jung offers an extended
treatment of adaptation in his treatise On Psychic Energy. However,
understanding Jung's theory of adaptation is difficult, due to
Jung's having two diverse and virtually exclusive meanings of
"adaptation" in his writings, rendering his thought on adaptation
somewhat obscure and, at times, inconsistent. The book
differentiates those diverse meanings of adaptation and articulates
Jung's positive and clinical understanding of adaptation in a way
that allows comparison to Langs' adaptive paradigm as well as a
creative synthesis of the two approaches. The result is a
development of Langs' adaptive paradigm and an expansion of
clinical theory and technique that is valuable for both Freudian
and Jungian analysts.
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