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3) A model of self as a structure . This theoretical development includes Sullivan’s self- system model and Kohut’s self-model, including their later elaborations. These models stress the role of the regulation function of self-esteem and the control of anguish as a health model. 4) A self model centered on the subjective experience . The examples here are models of Stern and Tyson and all those that account for the development of the acquisition of a subjective feeling of self. These models would seem to hierarchize the maintenance of a continuous subjective experience and in constant development as a model of health. Since the mid 1990’s, perhaps as a reaction to the classical Kleinian setting and technique, experienced as rigid, growing interest in Donald Winnicott initiated the Encuentro Latinoamericano sobre el Pensamiento de Donald Winnicott (Latin American Meetings on Donald Winnicott´s thinking). Sonia Abadi (1994, 1996) wrote about transitional phenomena, emotional development and Self integration, Casas de Pereda (1999) studied the possible equivalent to the False Self in Freud and Klein writings. Brazilian authors Megaço Leal Silva (1999), Salésio da Silva (1994), A. Naffah Neto (2007) and others worked on different aspects of the False self. Some of the topics were: false self in politicians, psychosomatics, metapsychology, perverse organizations, the self and the image in the mirror, self and sexuality, violence and false self from an intersubjective perspective, the relationship with the environment, early development, and Self formation disturbances in borderline and schizoid patients. Ricardo Rodulfo (2009), studied the relationship between destructive and creative aspects in Winnicott´s thinking. VII. C. Contemporary Latin American Developments, Uses and Applications of the Self Concept The huge influence of Winnicott´s writings, some criticism of Lacan´s devaluation of the role of the Ego, and some interesting developments in the research area, accompanied by the advances in neuroscience, led to new perspectives and applications of the Self concept in theory and practice. Hugo Bleichmar (2000) highlighted the importance of recognizing arousal levels of the patient to choose the best moment to intervene in the session and applied Lichtenberg´s motivational systems within a new perspective on depressions (Bleichmar 2001). Adolfo Canovi (2001) studied the Self needs within the context of the couple therapy practice. The dialogical perspective was highlighted by Felipe Muller (2005), according to whom psychoanalysis branched out into many directions of theoretical developments and this has led to some central debates about the way in which it is possible to organize the set of theories that comprise it. He maintains that one of these forms of organization is one that distinguishes psychoanalytic theories based on the psychology of one person from those based on the psychology of two people (Balint, 1950, Spezzano, 1996), or, according to more
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