Fifty Years of Change: A Shared Journey

Authors

Silvia W. Olarte, New York Medical College.

Author Type(s)

Faculty

DOI

10.1521/pdps.2024.52.1.25

Journal Title

Psychodynamic Psychiatry

First Page

25

Last Page

45

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2024

Department

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

The author shares a personal account of 50 years of experience practicing psychodynamic psychiatry and psychoanalysis after migrating from Argentina to the United States. Her career developed in parallel as a clinician and as an academic psychiatrist, with leadership roles in the American Psychiatric Association, the Association of Women Psychiatrists, and the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. After describing what constitutes the essence, substance, and form of psychoanalysis, she reviews the historic shift within psychoanalysis in the United States from intrapsychic dyadic practice with selected patients to the application of psychodynamic concepts to everyday psychiatric care of patients with complex morbidities in multiple clinical settings.

Recommended Citation

Olarte, S. W. (2024). Fifty Years of Change: A Shared Journey. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 52 (1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2024.52.1.25