An Integrative Approach to Relational Psychoanalysis

Recent research in cognitive neuroscience, as well as in therapeutic approaches such as Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, offer ways of empowering psychoanalytic therapy within the framework of contemporary psychoanalysis’s basic principles. A clinical vignette illustrating an effective application of psychotherapy integration is presented. In order to benefit from importing these outside insights and methods,...