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The title of this book may be quite misleading, particularly the words 'modern psychoanalysis'. The implications are that the theory and practice of the author's technique are psychoanalytic and that they are of recent development, outmoding old, discarded theory and practice. Neither of these implications is necessarily valid.
The bases for the theories presented by Dr. Spotnitz would seem to be a mixture of excerpts from the psychoanalytic literature, including observations recorded by authors whose concepts or techniques are not fully accepted by many psychoanalysts. The author himself states: 'Rather than being original, the hypothesis integrates the partial theories, clinical observations, and assumptions of many investigators whose ideas make sense to me and have been corroborated by my own experience in treating schizophrenic patients.'
Numerous generalizations are made which at times are confusing: e.g., 'on the basis of successful clinical experience with patients on a higher level of emotional development, Freud postulated the need for a certain type of transference object and recommended a specific technique for overcoming resistance. This is what led him astray [italics added]… Every schizophrenic individual is capable of some degree of object transference, but to develop it sufficiently to make him responsive to interpretation … is the crucial problem