Progress in Self Psychology, V. 15: Pluralism in Self Psychology / Edition 1

by Arnold I. Goldberg

Overview

Volume 15 of Progress in Self Psychology conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied. This topic is initially addressed through a series of papers reassessing selfobject transferences and the selfobject function of interpretation. It is then approached via the theory of psychoanalytic technique, with papers that focus on boundaries and intimacy and on "Surface, Depth, and the Isolated Mind". And it culminates in two case studies that elicit animated discussion delineating different perspectives - intersubjective, motivational systems, and self-selfobject - on the self in relation to the therapeutic process. Two studies comparing Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut; a discussion of how current cultural attitudes affect parenting; a relational view of the therapeutic partnership; and an integration of Silvan Tomkin's affect theory with self psychology add breadth to this timely and provocative collection. Volume 15 includes additional letters from the Kohut Archives and a moving account of Kohut's struggle with his own impending death.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881633122
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/1999
Series:	Progress in Self Psychology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arnold Goldberg, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejan Harris, M.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College in Chicago, and Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis (TAP, 1999) and Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior (TAP, 2000).

Table of Contents

Strozier, From the Kohut Archives. Part I: The Clinical Situation. Rowe, Jr., The Selfobject Transferences Reconsidered. Buirski, Haglund, The Selfobject Function of Interpretation. Siegel, The Optimal Conversation: A Concern About Current Trends Within Self Psychology. Part II: Theory of Technique. Gehrie, On Boundaries and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis. Chernus, Analytic Boundaries as a Function of Curative Theory: Discussion of Mark Gehrie's "On Boundaries and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis." Magid, Surface, Depth and the Isolated Mind. Part III: Klein and Kohut. Grotstein, Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut: An Odd Couple or Secretly Connected? Powell, Insight, Empathy and Projective Identification. Part IV: Case Studies. Levinson, Atwood, A Life of One's Own: A Case Study of the Loss and Restoration of the Sense of Personal Agency. Coburn, An Instrument of Possibilities: A Discussion of Dorothy Levinson and George E. Atwood's Paper. Levinson, Atwood, Response to Coburn. Kindler, The Case of Joanna Churchill. Fosshage, Tracking Alan Kindler's Case Report: A Self- and Motivational Systems Perspective. Ornstein, The Centrality of the Selfobject Transferences: A Discussion of Alan Kindler's Clinical Report. Stolorow, Antidotes, Enactments, Rituals, and the Dance of Reassurance: Comments on the Case of Joanna Churchill and Alan Kindler. Kindler, Reply to the Discussions. Ornstein, Changing Patterns in Parenting: Comments on the Origin and Consequences of Unmodified Grandiosity. Brothers, Lewinberg, The Therapeutic Partnership: A Developmental View of Self-Psychological Treatment as Bilateral Healing. Part V: Affects. Monsen, Monsen, Affects and Affect Consciousness: A Psychotherapy Model Integrating Silvan Tomkins's Affect- and Script- Theory Within the Framework of Self Psychology. Gossman, The Self and Its Past: On Shame and the "Biographical Void." Strozier, Death and the Self.