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There is considerable ferment in psychoanalysis today. Some of its basic tenets are currently being questioned and reformulated. One of the greatest challenges facing this profession is finding a way to integrate these competing perspectives of psychoanalytic thought. Clinical social workers should be prepared to participate in this dialogue because we would enter into it with our own unique view.
In What Is Effective In Psychoanalytic Therapy, Meissner takes a comprehensive look at the various psychoanalytic points of view, focusing on how these theories diverge from each other and how they might be similar. He then puts forward his own perspective. The author is a well-recognized scholar in the field whose previous writings have helped us to integrate and refine our theory and practice.
This slender volume is divided into four sections, three of which originally appeared in Psychoanalytic Inquiry. The first section focuses on the nature of change in the psychoanalytic process. It begins with Strachey's seminal paper which suggests that interpretations are “mutative” only if they are developed within the context of a positive transference relationship in which the therapist