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These collected papers from clinical psychological researchers in Germany, Switzerland, Britain, and the United States focus on theoretical and clinical studies in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. There is an emphasis on such concepts as self, self-esteem, individuation, and agency, as contrasted to terms more closely related to structural theory, such as ego, drive, and conflict. Although these articles purport to describe theory and clinical practice, their main purpose is to describe process-outcome studies. The editors, Neil Cheshire, from Wales, and Helmut Thomae, a psychoanalyst from Ulm in West Germany, undertake an ambitious task: to integrate theories of the mind from different realms of investigation, ranging for example, from a psychoanalytic theorist such as Joseph Sandler, describing self-representations, to a research psychologist, Kelly, describing personal construct theory. Any reader who is not intimately acquainted with the range of literature and thought about how constructs from these different realms can be compared or integrated will find these papers rewarding but difficult reading.
The volume is divided into two sections; with the editors writing a chapter introducing each part. Part I concerns itself with broad theoretical issues, Part II with empirical research presentations. The authors' intention is to show how modern psychoanalytic theories about the development and the sense of self and personal identity can be integrated with corresponding, more superficial concepts in social psychology, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, and animal learning studies. Using these concepts, they attempt to show that systematic empirical observations can demonstrate how beneficial change takes place in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy. The integration of language and terms from