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Benjamin, J. (1995). Comment. Psychoanal. Psychol., 12:595-598.

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(1995). Psychoanalytic Psychology, 12:595-598

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Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D. Author Information

As commendable as I find the idea of a journal issue dedicated to the controversy between different psychoanalytic schools. I must register some serious objection to the discussion of the relational perspective in the Winter issue of Psychoanalytic Psychology (PP; Vol. 12, No. 1). At no point do the contributors ever recognize the relational perspective for the broad, heterogeneous, and complex theoretical tendency that it truly is. Instead, the articles focus on the work of one relational analyst, Stephen Mitchell, as if he were the appointed spokesperson for a coherent, singular theoretical orientation. In a further narrowing of the terrain, they ignore his recent work, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis (1993), and concentrate exclusively on his older work, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis (1988). Once having assumed that the relational position can be equated with that of Mitchell's work, several articles juxtapose and discuss the differences in the position of his former co-a

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