ABSTRACT
Goldberg uses the questions posed by self psychology as point of entry to a thoughtful consideration of issues with which every clinician wrestles: the scientific status analysis, the relationships among its competing theories, the role of empathy in analytic method, and the place of the "self" in the analyst's explanatory strategies. Clinical chapters show how the notion of the self can provide organizing insights into little-appreciated character structures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
Theory
chapter |16 pages
The Three Theories of Psychoanalysis
chapter |11 pages
One Theory or More?
chapter |14 pages
Translation Between Psychoanalytic Theories
chapter |15 pages
The Tension Between Realism And Relativism in Psychoanalysis
part |67 pages
Empathy
chapter |13 pages
Self Psychology and External Reality
chapter |10 pages
Compassion, Empathy, and Understanding
chapter |12 pages
Experience: Near, Distant, and Absent
chapter |15 pages
On the Scientific Status of Empathy
chapter |15 pages
The Unempathic Child
part |46 pages
Character
chapter |14 pages
The Structure of the Self
chapter |14 pages
On the Nature of the "Misfit"
chapter |16 pages
The Wishy-Washy Personality
part |84 pages
Clinical Papers