Advances in self psychology

Principally based on a conference on self psychology held in Chicago, Oct. 1978.. Edited by Arnold Goldberg.. Summarizing reflections by Heinz Kohut.

Introductory remarks - Arnold Goldberg. Part 1 - Self psychology and development. Introduction - Morton Shane and Estelle Shane. Psychoanalytic developmental theories of the self: an integration - Morton Shane and Estelle Shane. Discussion of Psychoanalytic developmental theories of the self: an integration by Morton Shane and Estelle Shane - Marian Tolpin. Developmental perspectives on the psychology of the self in early childhood - Bertram J. Cohler. On the developmental line of selfobject relations - Ernest S. Wolf. Part 2 - Self psychology and the concept of health. Introduction - Ernest S. Wolf. Self psychology and the concept of health - Paul H. Ornstein. Discussion of Self psychology and the concept of health by Paul H. Ornstein - Robert D. Stolorow. Aggression, self psychology, and the concept of health - Meyer S. Gunther. The self: social and psychological perspectives - Daniel Offer, Eric Ostrov, and Kenneth I. Howard. Part 3 - Self psychology and its clinical applications. Introduction - Paul Tolpin. Self psychology and the concept of psychopathology: a case presentation - Evelyne A. Schwaber. Discussions of Self psychology and the concept of psychopathology: a case presentation by Evelyne A. Schwaber. Self psychology and problems of technique and termination - Paul Tolpin. A reply to Paul Tolpin - Evelyne A. Schwaber. Defense analysis and self psychology - Kenneth Newman. Perspectives on self and theory - Sheldon Bach. Self psychology and applied psychoanalysis - Miles F. Shore. The borderline personality: its makeup and analyzability - Paul Tolpin. Psychoanalysis of the self and psychotherapy - Jacques Palaci. Discussion of Psychoanalysis of the self and psychotherapy by Jacques Palaci - Nathaniel J. London. Object love and psychology of the self - David M. Terman. Part 4 - Self psychology and the sciences of man. Introduction - Mark J. Gehrie. The self and the group: a tentative exploration in applied self psychology - Mark J. Gehrie. Art and the self of the artist - Charles Kligerman. Heinz Kohut and the historical imagination - Charles B. Strozier. The psychology of the self: religion and psychotherapy - Randall C. Mason. The psychology of the self and religion - Joachim Scharfenberg. Some possible contributions of the psychology of the self to the study of the Arab Middle East - Marvin Zonis. Part 5 - Two letters. From an letter to one of the participants at the Chicago conference on the psychology of the Self - Heinz Kohut. From a letter to a colleague - Heinz Kohut. Part 6 - Reflections of advances in self psychology. Summarizing reflections - Heinz Kohut

'The contents of this book derive in large part from a fonference on self pscology held in Chicago in October, 1978. This was a particularly significant time in the history of self psychology. Although the studies of the disorders of narcissism and the origins of the psychology of the self are clearly the work of Heinz Kohut, during recent years others have written, discussed, argued, and worried over the issues raised by Kohut, to the point that an international meeting was called in order to facilitate ongoing dialogues in the field. More importantly, concern had arisen in 1978 that Kohut's work embodied "dissent" from traditional psychoanalysis....' --Introductory remarks

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