ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a compressed review of over one hundred years of psychoanalytic theorizing to illustrate that: the Balkanization of psychoanalytic theory has contributed to the marginalization of psychoanalysis and there is no consensus on which psychoanalytic theory occupies the contemporary conceptual high ground. It examines the new paradigm–that of regulation theory and its inexorable linkage to neuroscience. The book presents a discourse, a compare/contrast elaboration on the relationship among self psychology, intersubjectivity theory and relational psychoanalysis. It provides a brief case formulation of Myles from a traditional psychodynamic-psychoanalytic self-psychological perspective. The book outlines the best practice standards for the treatment of schizophrenic spectrum disorders. It focuses on the adolescent passage from the perspective of J. Arnett’s emerging adulthood proposal and the sociological phenomenon of the Millennials.
