Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

====Modern conflict theory====
''Modern conflict theory'', a variation of [[ego psychology]], is a revised version of structural theory, most notably different by altering concepts related to where repressed thoughts were stored.<ref name="Freud 1923" /><ref name="Freud 1926" /> Modern conflict theory addresses emotional symptoms and character traits as complex solutions to mental conflict.<ref>[[Charles Brenner (psychiatrist)|Brenner, Charles]]. 2006. "Psychoanalysis: Mind and Meaning." ''[[The Psychoanalytic Quarterly|Psychoanalytic Quarterly]].''</ref> It dispenses with the concepts of a fixed [[id, ego and superego]], and instead posits conscious and unconscious conflict among wishes (dependent, controlling, sexual, and aggressive), guilt and shame, emotions (especially anxiety and depressive affect), and defensive operations that shut off from consciousness some aspect of the others. Moreover, healthy functioning (adaptive) is also determined, to a great extent, by resolutions of conflict.

A major objective of modern conflict-theory psychoanalysis is to change the balance of conflict in a patient by making aspects of the less adaptive solutions (also called "compromise formations") conscious so that they can be rethought, and more adaptive solutions found. Current theoreticians who follow the work of [[Charles Brenner (psychiatrist)|Charles Brenner]], especially ''The Mind in Conflict'' (1982), include Sandor Abend,<ref>Abend, Sandor, Porder, and Willick. 1983. ''Borderline Patients: Clinical Perspectives''.</ref> [[Jacob Arlow]],<ref>[[Jacob Arlow|Arlow, Jacob]] and [[Charles Brenner (psychiatrist)|Charles Brenner]]. 1964. ''Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Structural Theory''.</ref> and Jerome Blackman.<ref name="Blackman">Blackman, Jerome. 2003. ''101 Defenses: How the Mind Shields Itself''.</ref>