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Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut

ISBN: 978-1-86156-229-6
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292 pages
June 2001
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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

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