Travels With Charlie: On My Long-Standing Affair With Theory

Abstract

In this article, I discuss the role that traditional analytic theory plays in my clinical work. By describing my efforts to utilize theory productively, I hope to illustrate a problem shared by a great many psychoanalysts: the difficulty in analytic treatment in finding a balance between inadequate attention to theory and excessive dependence on it.

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Dr. Theodore J. Jacobs is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York University-Langone School of Medicine; Training and Supervising Analyst, The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and The Psychoanalytic Institute of New York.