ABSTRACT
At present, with the more recent work of Schafer, Kohut, Gill, and Gedo, we may, following Friedman's lead, see ourselves in a new era of psychoanalysis, grounded in holistic humanism. In this view, development is conceptualized in terms of the person - in Schafer's sense of a progressive and interactive search for and invention of meanings-with a less structurally segmented, more integrated approach incorporating a developmental hierarchy of motives.
