Description
This volume, the seventh in the Workshop Series of the American Psychoanalytic Association, explores the concepts of conflict and compromise formation with unusual candor.
The authors of the first six papers in this volume all utilize the concepts of conflict and compromise formation in their clinical work. Thus, these papers, the nucleus of the book, provide a concise presentation of the place of these concepts in psychoanalysis today.
The next section of the book consists of four discussions of the papers.
It is the intent of the editor that this volume assist the reader in understanding the modern conceptualization of conflict and compromise formation and enable him or her both to recognize and be in a position to evaluate the clinical implications of that position as compared to self psychology and to the Bionian object relations approach. Neither the self psychological nor the Bionian position is presented in detail; rather, an effort has been made to present variations and clinical applications of conflict theory in some detail and then allow the reader to participate in an intense dialogue between well-known, authoritative proponents of differing viewpoints. There is ample clinical material to give substance to the discussion.
