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Analysis … must turn from the study of Freud to the study of man. — Kohut
To my mind, the most important development in psychoanalysis over the past decade has been the growing recognition that intrapsychic phenomena must be understood in the context of the larger interactional systems in which they take form. Evidence of this trend can be found in the increasingly frequent appearance in the psychoanalytic literature of such terms as self-selfobject relationship (Kohut, 1984), two-person psychology (Modell, 1984), relational matrix (Mitchell, 1988), mutual influence structures (Beebe & Lachmann, 1988a, 1988b), and intersubjective context (Atwood & Stolorow, 1984; Stolorow et al., 1987). This recognition of the broader context of intrapsychic experience holds critical implications for each of the three interrelated psychoanalytic domains envisioned by Freud: psychoanalysis