Underlying Assumptions in Psychoanalytic Schools

Bernd Huppertz is a physician in private practice. In Germany, he is a psychotherapist (child, adolescent, adult, and group), a psychiatrist, a neurologist and, formerly, a brain researcher. In 2002, he qualified to teach further education in psychiatry and psychotherapy (lecturer, teaching therapist, and supervisor) (Brandenburg Medical Association). He is also a part-time medical director of non-profit outpatient counseling/rehabilitation centers for patients affected by addiction. He is the editor of Psychotherapy in the Wake of War: Discovering Multiple Psychoanalytic Traditions and of Approaches to Psychic Trauma: Theory and Practice.

Foreword  Introduction  1. Historical Introduction: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, Metapsychology, Ego Psychoanalysis, the Developing Freudian School of Thought, and the Deviants  2. Contemporary UK Freudians  3. Klein, Kleinians, and Post-Kleinians: Deeper Layers of the Mind and Projective Identification  4. Fairbairn and the Independent Tradition  5. Winnicott and the Winnicottians  6. Bion, Bionians, and Post-Bionians: The Relational and the Unrepresented  7. John Bowlby, Attachment Theory, and Attachment Based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy  8. Lacan and the Lacanians: The Lacanian Unconscious  9. New York Freudian Group, US Freudians, and Contemporary Freudians  10. American Ego Psychology  11. Sandor Ferenczi, the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis, and the Ferenczi Tradition: The Bridge Between the "One-Person" and "Two-Person" Psychology  12. Interpersonal Psychoanalysis  13. The Neo-Freudians  14. Self Psychology, Kohut and the Kohutian Perspective  15. Post-Kohutian Self Psychology  16. Relational Psychoanalysis: An Assessment at this Time  17. Intersubjectivity: Intersubjective Systems Theory  18. American Object Relations: The Assumptions of American Object Relations Theories  19. Infant Research-Rooted Therapies in the UK  20. Infant Research-Rooted US Therapies: History of Development of Infant Research-Rooted Theories and the Core Concept of a Developmental Theory of Psychoanalysis  21. Neuropsychoanalysis: A Widening Scope for Psychoanalysis  22. Italian Psychoanalytic Thought  23. Argentine Psychoanalysis and the Psycho-Social Perspective  24. Psychoanalyses in Asia  25. Jung and the Jungians: The Jungian Perspective  26. The Post-Jungians  27. Summary and Overview  28. Epilogue: Psychoanalysis and the Journey from Natural to Social Science  29. Prospectus and Perspectives