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Jay Greenberg
American psychologist and psychoanalyst, trained at the William Alanson White Institute, where he became a training analyst. With Stephen Mitchell he wrote Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (1983), which set the drive model against the relational model and became a founding text of relational psychoanalysis. He later moved away from Mitchell's position and argued for keeping a revised concept of drive. He edited Contemporary Psychoanalysis and later The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and received the Sigourney Award in 2015.
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- 1942
- Notable works
- Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory
introduced
- Relational psychoanalysis 1983 Greenberg is the co-author of the 1983 book that gave relational psychoanalysis its name. He later moved away from Mitchell's pure relational position and went back to a revised concept of drive.
- Drive/structure and relational/structure models 1983 Greenberg, Mitchell's co-author on the 1983 book, shares credit for the two-model classification. Unlike Mitchell, he later argued that psychoanalysis cannot do without a drive concept.
collaborated with
- Stephen A. Mitchell 1983 Both trained at the William Alanson White Institute and together wrote Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory (1983), the comparative survey that set out the drive and relational models. Later they parted ways on whether drive still has a place.