The Schema in Clinical Psychoanalysis [Paperback]

Slap and Slap-Shelton proffer the schema as the basis of an internally consistent and clinically relevant model of the mind. Wedded to the dynamic and genetic points of view, the schema model accommodates the clinical realities of trauma, repetition, and sublimation while dispensing entirely with the abstract concepts of traditional metapsychology.1. Trauma and Neurosogenesis  2. The Schema Concept in Psychodynamic Theory  3. The Schema Model  4. Clinical Exposition  5. Dreaming, Transference Working Through, and Other Psychoanalytic Concepts  6. Treatment  7. The Schema Model and the Structural Model  8. The Schema Model and the Self  9. A Note on Self-Analysis and Some Questions Frequently Asked About the Schema Model

Over the years the problems inherent in the structural theory have become more and more obvious.  The time would now seem ripe for a new approach, one which not only is faithful to our work with the patient, but which provides a consistent and coherent theoretical background for that work.  In this book, Joseph Slap, here in collaboration with his daughter, Laura Slap-Shelton, has used his clinical skill and broad knowledge of psychoanalysis to present such an approach.  His model, based on the concept of the schema, is a major contribution and deserves careful study by anyone interested in psychological theory.

- Sydney E. Pulver, M.D., Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society

Drawing on the work of George Klein, Piaget, and cognitive psychology, Joseph Slap and Laura Slap-Shelton offer the working clinician a fresh way of listening to associations and viewing data as film clips or freeze frames of organized or unitary mental experiences.  The structural and topographic models receive a thoughtful critical reevaluation and the useful idea of the pathogenic schema is clearly articulated.  lS!