| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 309 pages) |
| Series |
Progress in self psychology, 0893-5483 ; volume 12 |
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Progress in self psychology ; v. 12.
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| Contents |
Cover; BASIC IDEAS RECONSIDERED; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Notes on the Integration, Reformulation, and Development of Kohut's Contributions; I FRUSTRATION AND RESPONSIVENESS; 1. Optimal Frustration: An Endangered Concept; 2. The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference; 3. Self Psychology in Search of the Optimal: A Consideration of Optimal Responsiveness; Optimal Provision; Optimal Gratification; and Optimal Restraint in the Clinical Situation |
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4. Notes on the Contribution of the Analyst's Self-Awareness to Optimal ResponsivenessII PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES; 5. The Philosophical Importance of Kohut's Bipolar Theory of the Self; 6. On the Existential/Subjectivism-Scientific/Objectivism Dialectic in Self Psychology: A View from Evolutionary Biology; III CLINICAL; 7. The Contribution of Self- and Mutual Regulation to Therapeutic Action: A Case Illustration; 8. Countertransference and Curative Process with ""Nondifficult"" Patients |
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9. Empathy in Broader Perspective: A Technical Approach to the Consequences of the Negative Selfobject in Early Character FormationIV CHILD STUDIES; 10. A Self-Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study; 11. Discussion of A Self Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study -- 12. Flight from the Subjectivity of the Other: Pathological Adaptation to Childhood Parent Loss; V APPLIED; 13. A Self-Psychological Approach to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Paradigm to Integrate the Biopsychosocial Model of Psychiatric Illness |
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14. Discussion of ""A Self-Psychological Approach to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Paradigm to Integrate the Biopsychosocial Model of Psychiatric Illness""15. The Function of Early Selfobject Experiences in Gendered Representations of God; 16. The Severed Self: Gender as Trauma; 17. Self Psychology: A Feminist Re-Visioning; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Volume 12 of the Progress in Self Psychology series begins with reassessments of frustration and responsiveness, optimal and otherwise, by MacIsaac, Bacal and Thomson, the Shanes, and Doctors. The philosophical dimension of self psychology is addressed by Riker, who looks at Kohut's bipolar theory of the self, and Kriegman, who examines the subjectivism-objectivism dialectic in self psychology from the standpoint of evolutionary biology. Clinical studies focus on self- and mutual regulation in relation to therapeutic action, countertransference and the curative process, and the consequences of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
Self psychology.
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Ego
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Self Psychology
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Psychoanalytic Therapy
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Personality.
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Self psychology
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Zelf.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldberg, Arnold, 1929- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781134894185 |
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113489418X |
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9780203779446 |
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0203779444 |
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