{"title":"Reconsidering Development in Psychoanalysis","authors":"R. Knight","doi":"10.1080/00797308.2021.1996123","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis has been using scientifically unsupported developmental theories that were proposed over 100 years ago before we had tools to investigate development. This paper will critically examine the theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott that were based on their ideas of development. These theories and the developmental phases they describe need to be replaced with descriptions of developmental phases that have been scientifically researched and proven for children, adolescents and emerging adults. In this paper a contemporary description and nomenclature for development is described and proposed. A more modern theory of nonlinear dynamic systems is delineated and suggested to replace the unsupported theories used at the start of psychoanalysis that are still being used today and continue to inform our practice of psychoanalysis. This paper is an introduction to a more up-to-date developmental theory, psychoanalytic theory and practice that hopefully we can all participate in and enlarge upon.","PeriodicalId":45962,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","volume":"75 1","pages":"215 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychoanalytic Study of the Child","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00797308.2021.1996123","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis has been using scientifically unsupported developmental theories that were proposed over 100 years ago before we had tools to investigate development. This paper will critically examine the theories of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott that were based on their ideas of development. These theories and the developmental phases they describe need to be replaced with descriptions of developmental phases that have been scientifically researched and proven for children, adolescents and emerging adults. In this paper a contemporary description and nomenclature for development is described and proposed. A more modern theory of nonlinear dynamic systems is delineated and suggested to replace the unsupported theories used at the start of psychoanalysis that are still being used today and continue to inform our practice of psychoanalysis. This paper is an introduction to a more up-to-date developmental theory, psychoanalytic theory and practice that hopefully we can all participate in and enlarge upon.
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is recognized as a preeminent source of contemporary psychoanalytic thought. Published annually, it focuses on presenting carefully selected and edited representative articles featuring ongoing analytic research as well as clinical and theoretical contributions for use in the treatment of adults and children. Initiated in 1945, under the early leadership of Anna Freud, Kurt and Ruth Eissler, Marianne and Ernst Kris, this series of volumes soon established itself as a leading reference source of study. To look at its contributors is to be confronted with the names of a stellar list of creative, scholarly pioneers who willed a rich heritage of information about the development and disorders of children and their influence on the treatment of adults as well as children. An innovative section, The Child Analyst at Work, periodically provides a forum for dialogue and discussion of clinical process from multiple viewpoints.