Psychoanalysis in the 1980s

Leopold Bellak, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 37, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.4.476

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Psychoanalysis has passed through several dialectic steps of development. At present, it appears invigorated by social needs such as accountability and by object-relations theory and self-psychology. As the most rigorous application of causality to the understanding of human behavior, it is likely to endure into new social eras and outlive the various diluted and trendy fads.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 37 • Number 4 • 1983, pp. 451–633

Pages: 476 - 492

PubMed: 6660338

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Published in print: 1983, pp. 451–633

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Leopold Bellak, M.D.^†

New York, N.Y.

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Presented at the 23d Emit A. Gutheil Memorial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, October 31, 1982, New York, N.Y. Sections of this paper, based on a series of three lessons entitled “Current Status of Freudian Psychoanalysis,” in Directions in Psychiatry, are used with permission of the editor, Frederic Flach, M.D.

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Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Post-Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy at New York University. Mailing address: 22 Rockwood Drive, Larchmont, N.Y. 10538.

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