Introduction

This book is devoted to integrating key psychoanalytic concepts into a humanistic frame that enriches understanding of the basic tenets of psychoanalysis. It is a narrative of the evolution of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis from Freud’s models, through both British and American schools of thought, to current neuroscience. This model creates a family tree comprised of six branches: Kleinian, ego, the middle school, self psychology, relational psychology, and attachment. Each contributor brought his or her own personal history to the psychotherapeutic enterprise, widening the field of inquiry from insights about the human brain within the skull to the notion of a field between two people, each always influencing the other.