TY - JOUR A1 - Safran, Jeremy D. A1 - Aronand, Lewis T1 - Review Barnaby Barratt: Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being since Freud's Psychology JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 11 (2001), pp. 571-582. N2 - This introduction to the symposium explores the key features of the American Psychological Association empirically supported treatment (EST) guidelines, the forces leading to their development, and some of the potential implications of these guidelines for the future of psychoanalysis. The EST guidelines consist of (a) a set of criteria for identifying psychotherapeutic treatments that can be considered effective on the basis of research evidence and (b) a list of treatments that meet these criteria. These guidelines are an outgrowth of a more general trend in the health care system – the shift toward an evidence-based practice model. Although the EST movement clearly has important professional implications for psychoanalysis, categorizing and possibly dismissing the relevant concerns as exclusively political or territorial would be a mistake. At issue are fundamentally important epistemological and ethical concerns. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Aronand, Lewis T1 - Whither therapeutic regression in the relational model? Commentary on Steven Stern's >needed relationships< JF - Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 681-707. N2 - This article examines a debate concerning the exegesis of the story of the garden of Eden and the tree of knowledge, as told in Genesis. Two contradictory interpretations of the garden narrative are examined, the first as the story is elucidated by the psychoanalyst and social theorist Erich Fromm and the alternative interpretation by the Talmudic scholar and philosopher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. This article compares and contrasts their exegeses and the respective implications of each view. The controversy, which has profound implications, reflects differences in world views concerning the good life, autonomy and relatedness, assertion and submission, will and surrender, obedience and rebellion, independence and interdependence, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Links are drawn to a variety of contemporary psychoanalytic theories, developments, and controversies. Y1 - 2005 ER -