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As One Who Has Attempted Integrations Of The Meanin-Making function of clinical work with the systematic search fof generalities about the mind, I appreciate Mauricio Cortina's thorough, thoughtful, and scholarly approach to the topic. He merits praise for his attempts to synthesize goals and for his careful and reasoned supportive arguments. Cortina's willingness to struggle against the pull of postmodernism in current psychoanalytic thinking is laudatory. The so-called demise of any natural science orientation is only a hot, contagious rumor. Cortina has presented an important antidote for this epidemic.
Cortina is addressing the various philosophical stances in our field. I detail these first because, in our theorizing, we can wittingly or unwittingly shift from one stance to another and I believe such moves implicitly (or explicitly) inform our clinical thinking and actions. Second, I address certain extra-analytic thinking that has emerged from bioneurological (Edelman, 1992) and psychological (Thelen and Smith, 1995) research and that has begun to transform the way we think about development (i.e., science influencing our clinical theory). Third, I address aspects of the attachment system as it interfaces with this new developmental perspective.