ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis has been undergoing many changes over the years and the advent of structured short-term psychodynamic therapies heralded those changes, necessarily involving the violation of many psychoanalytic prohibitions. Though contemporary short-term dynamic psychotherapies are anchored in the work of Freud who once used very active interventions which later gave way to his more passive stance as in free association (Davanloo, 1986; Malan, 1980), and analyses that were “interminable” (Freud, 1937c), they represent what is referred to as generational change (Crits-Christoph, Barber, & Kurcias, 1991) and a shift from classical analytic theory. This also occurred in long-term dynamic psychotherapy.
