There are more psychoanalytic theories today than anyone knows what
to do with, and the heterogeneity and complexity of the entire body
of psychoanalytic though have become staggering. In Relational
Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell weaves strands from
the principal relational-model traditions (interpersonal
psychoanalysis, British school object-relations theories, self
psychology, and existential psychoanalysis) into a comprehensive
approach to many of the knottiest problems and controversies in
theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. Mitchell's earlier book,
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory, co-authored with Jay
Greenberg, set the stage for this current integration by providing
a broad comparative analysis of important thinking on the nature of
human relationships. In that classic study Greenberg and Mitchell
distinguished between two basic paradigms: the drive model, in
which relations with others are generated and shaped by the need
for drive gratifications, and various relational models, in which
relations themselves are taken as primary and irreducible. In
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Mitchell argues that the
drive model has since outlived its usefulness. The relational
model, on the other hand, has been developed piecemeal by different
authors who rarely acknowledge and explore the commonality of their
assumptions or the rich complementarity of their perspectives. In
this bold effort at integrative theorizing, Mitchell draws together
major lines of relational-model traditions into a unified framework
for psychoanalytic thought, more economical than the anachronistic
drive model and more inclusive than any of the singular relational
approaches to the core significance of sexuality, the impact of
early experience, the relation of the past to the present, the
interpenetration of illusion and actuality, the centrality of the
will, the repetition of painful experience, the nature of analytic
situation, and the process of analytic change. As such, his book
will be required reading for psychoanalytic scholars,
practitioners, candidates in psychoanalysis, and students in the
field.
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