The Developmental Lens:

A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic

Diagnosis and Treatment

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The Developmental Lens: A New Paradigm for Psychodynamic Diagnosis and Treatment is the result of nearly thirty years of private practice, deep research, clinical supervision of candidate therapists in training, and teaching in psychoanalytic training institutes.  At its heart is a three-fold purpose: one, to

demonstrate the dynamic course of developmental processes from birth into

adulthood through my original Model of the Seven Keystones of Healthy

Development; two, to demonstrate the Seven Keystones of Wounded

Development—what compromises healthy development as the result of

environmental and relational failures and acute and cumulative unresolved

trauma; and three, how to work clinically in these seven pivotal keystones for

healing and for transformed development. Innovative theory-making and

clinical applications seen through vivid case illustrations serve as my

contribution to contemporary psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory and practice.