Some psychoanalysts have been labeled culturalist, or belonging to the cultural school,Marcuse Eros and Civilization pp.241, 261 because of the prominence they gave on culture for the genesis of behavior.J. Guimón (2003) Relational mental health: beyond evidence-based interventions p.68 The most prominent culturalist psychoanalyst was maybe Erich Fromm, and after him Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan.

They were famously in conflict with orthodox psychoanalysts.Deleuze and Guattari (1972) Anti-Oedipus pp.189-1 Despite their differences with orthodox psychoanalysts, they had a "stubborn maintenance of a familialist perspective," still speaking "the same language of a familialized social realm".

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