ABSTRACT
In 1994 the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis established a special collection relating to the life of Heinz Kohut. Arnold Goldberg created these archives and has been assiduous in soliciting materials for it from far and wide. The collection now includes copies of the complete correspondence (to and from Kohut); extensive materials from the files of the Institute itself; and a great deal of other letters, tapes, and documents. I have made many visits to the archives in the last few years in connection with the research for my forthcoming biography, Heinz Kohut and the Self: The Future of Psychoanalysis. There are any number of additional books and dissertations to be written using the collection. Partly to make their existence more widely known, I once suggested to Goldberg, and he agreed, that we include in Progress in Self Psychology a section on the publication of interesting material in the archives. The plan is to make "From the Kohut Archives" a regular part of the Progress series.
