ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
The Clinical Situation
part II|38 pages
Theory of Technique
chapter 6|12 pages
Analytic Boundaries as a Function of Curative Theory
part III|39 pages
Klein and Kohut
part IV|124 pages
Case Studies
chapter 10|19 pages
A Life of One's Own
chapter 11|8 pages
An Instrument of Possibilities
chapter 15|13 pages
The Centrality of the Selfobject Transferences
chapter 16|4 pages
Antidotes, Enactments, Rituals, and the Dance of Reassurance
chapter 18|14 pages
Changing Patterns in Parenting
chapter 19|26 pages
The Therapeutic Partnership
part V|58 pages
Affects