PSYCHOANALYTIC SCHOOL CONSULTATION

Article Critique on Psychoanalytic School Consultation: A Collaborative Approach



Article Critique on Psychoanalytic School Consultation: A Collaborative Approach

In this article Stephen Kerzner presents the diversity of psychoanalytic theories may conceal their underlying convergence. For example, Lacanian criticisms of ego-psychology assume a common basic account of the formation of the self, and an interest in symbol-formation is common to all schools. Again, Lacan's mirror stage illustrates an aspect of Klein's depressive position - namely, identification with something felt to be whole because seen as having spatial unity and permanence, and enviable on that account.

The main disagreements among the other approaches sketched above concern the ...