Lee Jaffe's Unifying Approach to Psychoanalysis. (June 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sugarman, Alan
• Is Part Of: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Volume 69:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 595
• Page End: 606
• Publication Date: 2021-06
• Subjects: Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; 616.891705
• DOI: 10.1177/00030651211033954
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-0651

Abstract

Lee Jaffe's presidential plenary paper demonstrates his career-long emphasis on unifying psychoanalysis and its theories. His use of Freud's various technical concepts to make psychoanalytic theory applicable to talking psychotherapies of all kinds, analytic and nonanalytic, is a notable achievement and a useful pedagogical tool. By valuing common ground and unification, he aligns himself with luminaries such as Wallerstein and Rangell, who had similar goals. In keeping with these values, I offer a schematic outline of what the sort of integrated model valued by Jaffe might include.