ABSTRACT
In this chapter of Kohut's How Does Analysis Cure? , he considers three interrelated questions: first, in general, the place of defense in self psychological theory; second, in particular, whether the analysis of defense, that is, resistance analysis, is still indispensable to analytic technique as conceived by self psychology; and third, and more particularly, how self psychology evaluates the traditional treatment process as an overcoming of resistance in order to make the unconscious conscious.
