Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950’s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual “silos.” Beginning with Freud’s theory of human nature and civilization, Donald Carveth’s Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice(Routledge, 2018) proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought.
Listen here to PCC candidate, Philip Lance, as he interviews Dr. Carveth for the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast on April 9, 2019.