Self Creation

Preface

Contemporary psychoanalytic theory offers a wide variety of tenable ways to understand the dynamics of problems people confront in their daily lives. Nonetheless, our understanding of and ability to change pathological patterns lag behind our comprehension of them. The problem of how to translate insight into behavioral change has plagued psychoanalytic thought and therapy from the inception of the field. It seems likely that this quandary exists because our attention to grasping dynamics was for a great while thought to be sufficient to achieve therapeutic goals. Whatever the specific reason, it is clear that the attention of psychoanalytic theory has been excessively weighted toward gaining insight into patients' problems at the expense ...