Sullivan's Contribution to Psychoanalysis

Conceptions of Structure in Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

“…And then set all this in the context of the mainstream psychoanalytic theory of Sullivan's era, according to which, in the eyes of at least some analysts, "Re lationships as such are not real; a psychology can be complete without considering more than the individual apparatus and events within it, plus the general class of external stimuli" (Holt, 1973, pp. 2 0 -2 1 , quoted by Grey, 1988). …”

Comments and Criticisms

“…Alan Grey, in his recent article "Sullivan's contribution to psy choanalysis: An overview" discussed the treatment of Sullivan's ideas in the current orthodox psychoanalytic literature (Grey, 1988). I will expand upon his quotation from Cooper (1985, p. 11):…”

The Uniquely Interpersonal and the Interpersonally Unique

“…This trend has particular relevance for the In terpersonal approach which has had such a pervasive, but largely unacknowledged, influence on psychoanalytic praxis and theory. Many Interpersonal concepts, ideas, and practices have been adopted or incorporated, in part or in whole, into the analytic 2 See, for example, the differing perspectives of Antonovsky (1987), Bromberg (1989), Chrzanowski (1977), Crowley (1972), Gill (1983), Greenberg & Mitchell (1983), Grey (1988), Havens (1976), Held-Weiss (1984), Hirsch (1987), Kwawer (1981), Levenson (1985), Mitchell (1986), Monroe (1955), Thompson (1950), Ticho (1978), Witenberg & Caligor (1967), Wolstein (1977aWolstein ( , 1977b, and Zucker (1989).…”