Description

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

Author: Mollon, Phil

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1861562292
Language: English
Pages: 292