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We have come to the end of our journey. Through the previous 18 chapters, we studied the historical panorama of the most prominent psychoanalytic developmental theories and their authors whose personal stories influenced the unfolding of their respective models. In our Introduction, we outlined three sets of issues that are central to the construction of a developmental theory. Regarding the methodological problems, we specified three perspectives from which observers may describe psychological phenomena, the descriptive, the interpersonal, and the intrapersonal, i.e., the intrapsychic. We also proposed that it is possible to conceptualize the central organizing feature of a theory as the root metaphor to which the theory adheres, the three primary root metaphors being, the mechanistic, the organismic, and the contextual. Finally, we raised the controversy as to whether we may view developmental theories as paradigms based on positivist perspectives or on social constructivist and hermeneutic perspectives.
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Palombo, J., Koch, B.J., Bendicsen, H.K. (2009). Conclusion. In: Guide to Psychoanalytic Developmental Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88455-4_19
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