Download or read book The Schema in Clinical Psychoanalysis written by Joseph W. Slap and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1991 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slap and Slap-Shelton proffer the schema as the basis of an internally consistent and clinically relevant model of the mind. Wedded to the dynamic and genetic points of view, the schema model accommodates the clinical realities of trauma, repetition, and sublimation while dispensing entirely with the abstract concepts of traditional metapsychology.