Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut

by PhilMollon (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $59.44

  This book revisits in depth Kohut's own accounts of his theory and clinical work and links them with other contemporary perspectives within psychoanalysis.

  Contents:

  • Rage, shame and presymbolic dread
  • Discerning invisible structures
  • Perversion, the vertical split and the psychoeconomic dimension
  • The healing process in Kohut's psychoanalysis
  • Empathy and the intersubjectivists
  • Kohut and the internal object
  • Impasse and Oedipus
  • Schizophrenia and depression
  • The fragmented self and the thwarted self
  • The developmental neurobiology of the self object relationship
  • Self psychology perspectives on childhood trauma
  • Further reflections on psychoanalytic cure