ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the variety of other instruments developed during 1999 as the Scales of Psychological Capacities. It describes structure of the author's research programme, which comprised intensive interviews with 194 former patients carried out by her analyst colleague research team members—in each case a team member unknown to the former patient and someone from a different city. The book focuses on the question that Collaborative Analytic Multi-site Program was specifically created: "The lack of a shared database is a major obstacle to the development of psychoanalytic research". It indicates the wider deployment of the authors Scales within the psychoanalytic psychotherapy research world, both in the United States and around the world, including translations into Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Swedish. The book presents yet another avenue of psychoanalytic therapy research study.
