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Title

How does analysis cure? / by Heinz Kohut ; edited by Arnold Goldberg with the collaboration of Paul E. Stepansky.

Author

Kohut, Heinz.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Goldberg, Arnold, 1929-
• Stepansky, Paul E.

Description

240 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy in order to shed light on human behavior. In How Does Analysis Cure? Kohut presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology, and carefully lays out how the self develops over the course of time. Kohut also specifically defines healthy and unhealthy cases of Oedipal complexes and narcissism, while investigating the nature of analysis itself as treatment for pathologies. This in-depth examination of "(Bthe talking cure" explores the lesser studied phenomena of psychoanalysis, including when it is beneficial for analyses to be left unfinished, and the changing definition of "(Bnormal." An important work for working psychoanalysts, this book is important not only for psychologists, but also for anyone interested in the complex inner workings of the human psyche

Subject

• Psychoanalysis
• Self psychology
• Ego
• Narcissism
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Self-Assessment
• Self Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780226006000 (pbk.)
• 022600600X (pbk.)
• 022600614X (ebook)
• 9780226006147 (ebook)

OCLC

• 806491448
• SCSB-12032837

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library