Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideasfrom each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However there isconfusion and ... » 

Contemporary psychoanalysts are eclectic and believe they use the best ideasfrom each of our numerous competing theoretic models. However there isconfusion and controversy about what constitutes best. Critical differencesbetween these theories are about inferences concerning the disguised meaning ofwhat patients tell us. There can be no meaning without context but we havenever developed a consensus about how we establish context contextualization.This book offers a number of detailed clinical examples to illustrate howconfusion about contextualization serves as the source of some of our mostimportant disagreements. «