Misogyny, homophobia, and racism permeate every aspect of U.S. life: from housing, education, health care, the criminal justice system, to romantic relationships friendships. No private, pu...

Recent changes in psychoanalysis and substance abuse treatment are healing long-standing rifts that had kept these two fields apart. This article elaborates the historical positions that contributed to the schism and describes how the harm reduction model of substance abuse treatment and the relational orientation in psychoanalysis can bring them together. Three clinical examples illustrate how...

Psychoanalytic theory’s roots (in the clinic rather than the laboratory), and aims (depth understanding of the individual) have led to the development of a theoretical perspective that relies primarily on idiographic data and case material to derive and test psychoanalytic hypotheses. In this article, I describe nomothetic psychoanalysis–a framework for conceptualizing and evaluating psychoanal...

Dynamic systems theory is a source of powerful new metaphors for psychoanalysis. Phenomena such as conflict, transference, resistance, and the unconscious itself are grasped from this perspective as dynamically emergent properties of self-organizing, nonlinear, dyadic, intersubjective systems. The conception of development as evolving and dissolving attractor states of intersubjective systems r...

of remarks by Karen Horney as moderator of a discussion of Dr. Kondo's paper on Morita Therapy at a meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis held on 9 November 1952. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 13: 8788. 1956 Evolutionary Psychotherapy [An interview of Karen Horney by Werner Wolff, "Therapy of Interpersonal Relationships"]. In Werner Wolff, Contemporary Psychothe...

The significance of psychoanalysis is not only due to its specific theoretical contributions to the structure of the personality. An important side effect is the increasing attention given to every-day intimacies which fifty years ago received a limited, restricted, social, non-psychological interpretation except perhaps in literature. The United States, more than any other country, has respond...