ABSTRACT

When Pine (1990) described the history of psychoanalytic theory as drive-ego-object-self, he nicely captured the major theoretical shift s within psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory. Yet many others have made important contributions to the development of theory that have had notable implications for conceptualization and treatment. Many of these advances have been reformulations or expansions of important ideas that were contained within the original theories or an integration of a diff erent domain of study into psychodynamic ideas (e.g., cognitive psychology). In some cases, there have been important attempts at integrating the major ideas into one expansive theory. Th is chapter provides a selective review of more recent attempts to enrich psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory.