Releasing the Self

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The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut

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This book revisits in depth Kohut’s own accounts of his theory and clinical work and links them with other contemporary perspectives within psychoanalysis. <p>Contents:</p> <ul> <li>Rage, shame and presymbolic dread</li> <li>Discerning invisible structures</li> <li>Perversion, the vertical split and the psychoeconomic dimension</li> <li>The healing process in Kohut’s psychoanalysis</li> <li>Empathy and the intersubjectivists</li> <li>Kohut and the internal object</li> <li>Impasse and Oedipus</li> <li>Schizophrenia and depression</li> <li>The fragmented self and the thwarted self</li> <li>The developmental neurobiology of the self object relationship</li> <li>Self psychology perspectives on childhood trauma</li> <li>Further reflections on psychoanalytic cure</li> </ul>