TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive-Humanistic Psychodynamics
T2 - Sidney Blatt’s Theoretical-Philosophical Legacy
AU - Shahar, Golan
AU - Mayes, Linda C.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 by the American Psychoanalytic Association.
PY - 2017/6/1
Y1 - 2017/6/1
N2 - A number of broad-based, theoretical-philosophical tenets are to be gleaned from Sidney Blatt’s voluminous, extensive, and unique scholarly work. Dominant themes in Blatt’s life and work include (1) his fascination with cognition, particularly mental maps, or representations, of reality; (2) the influence of humanistic values (e.g., agency, need for growth, gestalts, need for balance, and an optimistic focus on resilience); and (3) a steadfast adherence to Freud’s revolutionary discovery of the dynamic unconscious. Philosophically speaking, Blatt has left a unique, integrative, and vibrant legacy for the field, one that might be called cognitive-humanistic psychodynamics.
AB - A number of broad-based, theoretical-philosophical tenets are to be gleaned from Sidney Blatt’s voluminous, extensive, and unique scholarly work. Dominant themes in Blatt’s life and work include (1) his fascination with cognition, particularly mental maps, or representations, of reality; (2) the influence of humanistic values (e.g., agency, need for growth, gestalts, need for balance, and an optimistic focus on resilience); and (3) a steadfast adherence to Freud’s revolutionary discovery of the dynamic unconscious. Philosophically speaking, Blatt has left a unique, integrative, and vibrant legacy for the field, one that might be called cognitive-humanistic psychodynamics.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021379629&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0003065117709013
DO - 10.1177/0003065117709013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021379629
SN - 0003-0651
VL - 65
SP - 457
EP - 472
JO - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
IS - 3
ER -