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I would feel like a cad to be too critical of Messer and Winokur’s chapter. It is, in so many respects, reasonable, fair minded, accurate—and it seems to move considerably away from the antiintegrationist position of their earlier paper and toward a cautious appreciation of the value of an integrative approach. Even their first paper, to be sure, was no one-sided anti- integrative tract but was more in the nature of a caution to whoever might rush too unheedfully into the thicket of problems that integration presents. Their present chapter also is such a caution, but I suspect that readers familiar with both will be struck by the more positive attitude toward integration that these two thoughtful writers express upon further reflection.
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Wachtel, P.L. (1984). Tragedy, Irony, and Human Assistance. In: Arkowitz, H., Messer, S.B. (eds) Psychoanalytic Therapy and Behavior Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2733-2_6
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