Progress in Self Psychology by Arnold I. Goldberg (9780881632866)

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Volume 14 of "The Progress in Self Psychology" introduces a valuable new section to the series: publication of noteworthy material from the Kohut Archives of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In this volume, "From the Kohut Archives" features a selection of previously unpublished Kohut correspondence from the 1940s through the 1970s. The clinical papers that follow are divided into sections dealing with "Transference and Countertransference", "Selfobject and Objects" and "Schizoid and Psychotic Patients". As Howard Bacal explains in his introduction, these papers bear witness to the way in which self psychology has increasingly become a rational self psychology - a psychology of the individual's experience in the context of relatedness.
Coburn's reconstrual on "countertransference" as an experience of self-injury in the wake of unresponsiveness to the analyst's own selfobject needs; Livingston's demonstration of the ways in which dreams can be used to facilitate "a playful and metaphorical communication between analyst and patient"; Gorney's examination of twinship experience as a fundamental goal of analytic technique; and Lenoff's emphasis on the relational aspects of "phantasy selfobject experiences" are among the highlights of the collection. Enlarged by contemporary perspectives on gender and self-experience (Brothers, Kaufman) and a critical examination of Kohut, Loewald and the Postmoderns (Teicholz), Volume 14 reaffirms the position of self psychology at the forefront of clinical, developmental and conceptual advance.

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