Misappropriation, Misattribution and Change

Extending Sullivan's Interpersonalism

“…I cannot emphasize enough how pioneering and radical Levenson's earlier pieces were in the paradigmatic shift from classical drive theory to non-drive, or relational theories, in this country. In fact, there has been an enormous shift within clas sical thinking in recent years, unfortunately without virtually any attribution to interpersonal writers such as Levenson (Hirsch, 1985;Feiner, 1992). Very few analysts were drawing the contrasts he was drawing throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; none ad dressed these distinctions as clearly and persistently as he.…”