| They arose, in part, from the way in which psychoanalysts employed metapsychological theories to explain both character pathology and major psychiatric conditions. |
| The answer lies in a theoretical perspective, a clarifying of metaphysical and metapsychological assumptions. |
| This is very different from a metapsychological position, in which insight into the past or realignment of behavioral contingencies is the primary focus. |
| How one eventually views the role of emotion in spiritual transformation will depend, of course, on the nature of the metapsychological assumptions which one endorses. |
| They develop a metapsychological understanding of art while raising doubts about the self-serving nature of psychoanalytic aesthetics. |
| Metapsychological and clinical aspects of regression within the psycho-analytic set-up. |
