This guest post by James Barnes is a counterpoint article to In Defense of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis by Mark L. Ruffalo. The "relational" approach—whether in its original form in relational ...

But what about someone whose relational ... connection by, for example, saying the right things to create engagement and intimacy in a conversation when the other person isn’t asking about ...

We then combined the best-fitting univariate curves into a multivariate model with the addition of covariances between all growth factors (between-person associations) and within-time between the ...

In doing so, our investigation clarifies systematically how a learning principle that has largely been considered in the context of near transfer, also implements an important instance of far transfer ...

But the mistake they made was to ignore database history and try to reinvent the wheel by abandoning the relational model. I encourage interested readers also to read Stonebraker's 2006 treatise [PDF] ...