ABSTRACT
Although Lewin was a psychologis t and not a psychoanalyst, much of his work and many of his ideas are closely related to psychoanalysis. In their article: ‘The Relevance of Freudian Psychology and Related Viewpoints for the Social Sciences’ Hall and Lindzey wrote:
‘A few individuals such as Kurt Lewin…played an important integrative role; within the confines of academic institutions they made earnest efforts to conduct controlled empirical research that was related to, and in part inspired by, psychoanalysis. From these efforts, psychoanalysis received a graver
lustre of investigative respectability and this in turn led other more conventional psychologists to conduct related research.’
