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Originally Posted by octoberful
I know you were  as I've read your posts about him in the past. Spotnitz is self-psychology much like Kohut. Self psychology is one of three I've been discussing:
Objection relations
Self-psychology
Relational
Those are the 3 main ones that are considered within of the modern school of thought. They all do once a week psychoanalytic therapy, but some clients need it more. This is opposed to Freudian, which is "classic"/nonmodern. |
Is "Freudian" really a separate school of thought from the others you listed, where you are? I don't know any analysts or therapists who work psychoanalytically who don't see themselves as Freudian in some sense unless they identify as Lacanian (or Jungian, I suppose, but I haven't met any of those), despite very much using object relations and relational theories in their work.
I feel like "Freudian" gets used as a specific label more as a pejorative where I am, by people who don't know much about contemporary psychoanalysis in clinical practice and don't realize that their impression is closer to a parody than to what actually happens in analysis and analytic therapy.