Leon van der Linde has a PhD in psychology from Western Sydney University and works as a psychologist in Armidale, NSW, specializing in brief or time-limited dynamic psychotherapy.
This book critically examines the shift from instinctual drive theory to relational theory in psychoanalysis, based on the premise that drive formulations are incompatible with relational configurations. It demonstrates that the original shift was misguided, based on misinterpretations and miscon...