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Recent trends in contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice are influenced by clinical and research findings about infancy and early childhood. Current developmental research is consilient with findings in related fields, including neuroscience, psychopharmacology, trauma research, psychoanalysis and affect research, among others. In this chapter we approach the relationships between developmental findings and clinical practice, mindful of the complex relationships between infancy, childhood, and adulthood. First we offer an elaboration of the key postulates, followed by a survey of the contemporary psychodynamic transactional-relational-developmental orientation as supported by the developmental research, including attachment theory. We then discuss the implications for dynamic--psychoanalytic clinical theory and technique.
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