A Reconsideration of the Concept of Regression

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Organization, for Jackson, implies fixity, a lack of flexibility of response. This is quite different from Hartmann’s (1958) emphasis on organization as the outcome of coordinated differentiation and integration, a capacity for adaptation.

I wish to thank Murray Goldstone, M.D., for his assistance in clarifying my ideas and for his sensitivity to value judgments that impair analytic neutrality.

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A. Scott Dowling

Training and Supervising Analyst, Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, Cleveland; Ohio Associate Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.