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Preface Foreword Introduction PART I The Psychoanalytic Problem and Basic Evolutionary Approach ONE Competing Psychoanalytic Visions of the Human Condition: Classical and Relational Narratives TWO Early Darwinian Versions of the Psychoanalytic Narratives and the Challenge for Contemporary Evolutionary Theory THREE The Modern Evolutionary Perspective: Some Basic Considerations PART II Contemporary Evolutionary Theory and the Relational World: The Average, Expectable (Good-Enough) Environment Reconsidered FOUR Conflict and Mutuality in the Relational World: Kin and Reciprocal Altruism FIVE Conflict and Mutuality in Development: Parent-Offspring Conflict Theory SIX A Revised View of the Average, Expectable Environment SEVEN The Paradoxical Challenge of Human Adaptation: Constructing a Self in a Biased, Deceptive Relational World PART III Intrapsychic Dynamics and the Seif System as Evolved Adaptations EIGHT Blind Mechanisms with Built-in Adaptive Vision: Repression, Endogenous Drives, and the True Self NINE Negotiating and Re-negotiating the Self: Transference as an Evloved Capacity to Promote Change (With a Special Focus on Adolescence) PART IV Contemporary Evolutionary Theory and the Clinical Process: Conflict, Negotiation, and Influence in the "Good-Enough" Therapeutic Relationship PRELUDE Clinical Discovery, Comparative Psychoanalytic Narratives, and the Evolutionary Perspective TEN Transference, Resistance, and the Evolved Capacity for Creative Seif-Revision ELEVEN The Ambiguities of Empathy and the Creation of an Alliance with the Patient's Inclusive Self-Interest PART V Toward an Evolutionary Foundation for Psychoanalysis TWELVE The Evolved Design of the Psyche and the Classical-Relational Dialectic: Toward a Rapprochement of Competing Psychoanalytic Narratives
Malcolm Owen Slavin, Ph.D., graduated from Yale, studied at the Sorbonne, and received a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1972. He was a consultant to the Harvard North Africa Project in Tunisia and is the Director of Training at the Tufts University Counseling Center. Dr. Slavin is a director and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has contributed widely to the psychoanalytic literature and maintains a practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and supervision in Cambridge, Massachusetts.