ABSTRACT
I have several purposes in these remarks. I wish to present some of the major elements in my work, especially elements which I feel have been often misunderstood. I wish to acknowledge the fact that the work that I and my colleagues have done is being increasingly compared with the work of Heinz Kohut, a major innovator in psychoanalysis, and Milton Erickson, an innovator who went far beyond hypnotherapy (Stolorow, 1976; Graf, 1984; Gunnison, 1985; Kahn, 1985). Finally, from my limited knowledge of the work of these two men, I should like to give my view (undoubtedly biased) of some similarities and differences between my contributions and theirs. I hope I can do this in a way that will provoke fresh thought about some of the basic issues of psychotherapy.
