Perhaps the thousands of books written over the last century on psychoanalytic theory can be boiled down to this: We treat ourselves as we were treated, and the only way we can really learn to treat ...

This article is co-authored by Chiara Staal, a psychologist in the Netherlands (first author). Psychoanalysis has, to put it mildly, fallen out of favor. Whereas the ideas of Sigmund Freud and his ...