So the foundation of assimilative psychodynamic integration is contemporary relational psychodynamic theories of personality structure, psychopathology, and psychological change.
Because my question, my guiding question was what would contribute to happiness? And if something within psychopathology I thought could contribute to our wellbeing.
So, what does the current literature in relationship to developmental psychopathology have to say about those longer-term sociological transformations?
Related to this, it's not clear to what extent dissociative identity disorder is an extreme version of normal psychopathology--sorry, of normal psychology.
And, you know, I think he actually made some pretty good contributions to our understanding of parental relationships insofar as they impact psychopathology.