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The growing emphasis on theoretical pluralism and interdiscipinary inquiry in contemporary psychoanalysis has generated divergent views of the human condition, problems in living, and concepts of therapeutic action. Scholars and practitioners have enlarged the boundaries of the discipline, over the last quarter century, and the modes of thinking that we encompass within the domain of contemporary psychoanalysis are increasingly varied in voice, content, rules, methods, and purposes. While the move toward pluralism has made it more difficult to identify distinct lines of inquiry, it has revitalized the field of psychoanalysis and deepened interest in a range of projects, as we see in the current volume, Love and Attachment: Contemporary Issues and Treatment Considerations.
This collection of essays, written by clinical scholars affiliated with the New York University School of Social Work, explores the nature of love, attachment, and relational experience in modern life. John Bowlby's seminal work continues to generate theoretical, empirical, and clinical lines of inquiry, and findings provide ever growing support for the psychoanalytic view that the early experiences of self and other shape ways of being and relating throughout the life course. The contributors draw on developmental formulations, attachment research, family studies, and cultural perspectives as well as classical psychoanalysis, ego psychology, object relations thought, and self psychology in their efforts to examine the variousness and complexity