Sigmund Freud and the classical psychoanalytic tradition -- Ego psychology -- Harry Stack Sullivan and interpersonal psychoanalysis -- Melanie Klein and contemporary Kleinian theory -- The British object relations school : W. R. P. Fairbairn and D. W. Winnicott -- Psychologies of identity and self : Erik Erikson and Heinz Kohut -- Contemporary Freudian revisionists : Otto Kernberg, Roy Schafer, Hans Loewald, and Jacques Lacan -- Controversies in theory -- Controversies in technique.