Robert Langs
| Robert Langs | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 30, 1928 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | 
| Died | November 8, 2014 (aged 86) New York City, U.S. | 
| Nationality | American | 
| Occupation(s) | Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist | 
| Known for | Adaptation-centered psychoanalytic psychotherapy | 
Robert Joseph Langs (June 30, 1928 – November 8, 2014) was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychoanalyst. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than forty books on psychotherapy and human psychology. Over the course of more than fifty years, Langs developed a revised version of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, currently known as the "adaptive paradigm". This is a distinctive model of the mind, and particularly of the mind's unconscious component, significantly different from other forms of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy.