The Clinical Use of Multiple Models: Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 14.2

This special issue utilizes the works of Fred Pine and John Gedo as a focus for discussion. Both have a widened scope for psychoanalysis as their aim, and an integrated approach using multiple models as their means for gaining conceptual and technical comprehensiveness without giving up theoretical rigor. For Pine, this is accomplished by illuminating principles of mental functioning that give theoretical support for taking different points of view depending on the psychological organization of the patient. For Gedo, the solution lies in a developmentally based, hierarchical model in which psychological modes of functioning are linked with developmental phases and treatment modalities. This issue is divided into two sections. The papers in the first section are derived from a conference that took place at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. The speakers used Pine's work as a point of reference for addressing the topic "Possibilities and Dangers in the Clinical Use of Multiple Models." The second section follows the same format, using Gedo's multiple model as a point of reference. Both Pine and Gedo respond to each of the papers.