Abstract:The advent of a Freudian revisionist attitude in psychoanalysis has heralded several different models of how therapy works. For example, the work of Melanie Klein deviated from the classic approach in placing the oedipus complex at an early age in the life of the child and in offering the paranoid-schizoid and the depressive positions as central to early development. However, only in recent years has an almost anticlassic understanding appeared in the literature in the schools of self-psychology, of relational… Show more
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