ABSTRACT
There is no such thing as a relational theory, but there is such a thing as a relational point of view, a relational way of thinking, a relational sensibility. Rrelational psychoanalysis is almost ideally suited to make use of insights from the dynamic systems perspective that in the last decade or two has begun to radically change the way we think in science. In recent years interest has spread down one level to study the relation between brain and mind and up one level to the societal, although we have not yet seriously engaged a concept of a social unconscious. Psychoanalysis until recently has confined itself to the narrow band of the psychopathological, where interhuman relations play an enormous role. In recent years interest has spread down one level to study the relation between brain and mind and up one level to the societal, although we have not yet seriously engaged a concept of a social unconscious.
