Evolution vs. “revolution” in psychotherapy: A biodynamic integration

No one but an osteologist can be truly entranced by a human skeleton, whereas, a physician can accurately imagine that skel eton clothed in the flesh and blood of a man and can then pic ture that man exquisitely alive and creative. It is with this reliance on the supplemental imagery, knowledge, and experience of the readers of this journal that the skeletal outline of psychotherapy is offered with the added recognition that both the structure of skeletons and our knowledge of them also change over the ages. Nevertheless, such changes occur not by violent revolu tions and counter-revolutions, but by an orderly evolution along pre-set and significant patterns.