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 hu…
Guided by the self-psychological framework developed by Arnold Goldberg in Being of Two Minds (TAP, 1999), the contributors to Errant Selves explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and addiction in which the misbehavior at issue served pr.
Pt. 1. Distinguishing the brain, the mind and the self -- pt. 2. The newer models of the mind and the self -- pt. 3. Clinical examples of the special role of psychoanalysis.
Table of Contents: The brain, the mind, and the self : three conundrums in psychiatry and psychoanalysis On understanding understanding : how we understand the meaning of the word Understanding On the scientific status of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy A psychoanalysis indepen…
Psychoanalysis enjoyed an enormous popularity at one time, but has recently fallen out of favor as new psychiatric medications have dominated the treatment of mental illness and a new interest in the brain and neuroscience begins to dominate the theory as to the cause and cure o…