Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the SelfHeinz Kohut's work represents an important departure from the Freudian tradition of psychoanalysis. A founder of the Self Psychology movement in America, he based his practice on the belief that narcissistic vulnerabilities play a significant part in the suffering that brings people for treatment. Written predominantly for a psychoanalytic audience Kohut's work is often difficult to interpret. Siegel uses examples from his own practice to show how Kohut's innovative theories can be applied to other forms of treatment. |
Contents
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The classical foundation of Kohuts thought | 19 |
emerging strands of a new cloth | 44 |
Toward a psychology of the self | 55 |
Part I The idealized parental imago | 70 |
Part II The grandiose self | 86 |
Part I Innovations in theory | 104 |
Part II Clinical | 118 |
Part I Theoretical reflections | 153 |
Part II The therapeutic | 169 |
Last words | 186 |
Critique and conclusions | 193 |
Glossary | 203 |
Bibliography of the work of Heinz Kohut | 210 |
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The two analyses of Mr Z | 141 |
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