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Silverman (1976, p. 621) remarked that reports regarding the death of psychoanalysis “have been greatly exaggerated.” Clearly, he was correct in a numbers of respects. There has probably been more serious empirical research testing and extending psychoanalytic concepts and hypotheses during the past two decades than at any other time in the history of the discipline (see, e.g., Fisher & Greenberg, 1985; Kline, 1972; Masling, 1983, 1986). The development of object-relations theory and self-psychology have produced an abundance of new and innovative perspectives on psychoanalytic theory, therapy, and research. In one sense, however, Silverman's optimistic statement was only partially accurate. Psychoanalysis is indeed flourishing among practitioners of individual psychotherapy today, behaviorism probably having reached its peak of influence at least a decade ago. Psychoanalysis is also holding its own quite well in medical settings,