| This historical, theoretical study examines and compares relational theoretical and practice concepts written about by leading pre-1940 clinical social workers and past/present relational psychoanalytic theorists. The years, 1880–1940, were chosen not only to demonstrate how these clinical social workers preceeded or wrote concurrently with the historical relational model theorists about relational concepts but to determine if clinical social work was relational in nature from its very beginnings. The focal points of the comparison were the key concepts from the various psychoanalytic theories (Interpersonal, British object relations, self psychology, social constructivism, narrative theory, postmodernism, and feminist theory) that essentially make-up American relational psychoanalysis. Commonalities and differences between clinical social work and American relational psychoanalysis were addressed throughout the study. |
