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