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Author Kainer, Rochelle G. K., 1936-

Title The collapse of the self and its therapeutic restoration / Rochelle G.K. Kainer
Published Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 206 pages)
Series Relational perspectives book series ; v. 15
Relational perspectives book series ; v. 15
Contents Cover; The Collapse of the Self: And Its Therapeutic Restoration; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1 Creating the Self; Chapter One Found Objects: On the Nature of Identification; Chapter Two On Falling in Love with a Work of Art: Identifications in the Creation of the Ideal Self; Chapter Three Sadomasochistic Identifications: The Formation of the Pathological Part of the Self; Part II The Collapse of the Self; Chapter Four Narcissistic Injury and Its Relation to Paranoid/Schizoid Collapse; Chapter Five Compulsive Eating: Autistic Self-Soothing in a Neurotic Structure
Chapter Six Hidden Spaces: Psychotic Residues in a Neurotic StructureChapter Seven From ""Hysteroid Dysphoria"" to ""Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"": A Case for Psychoanalysis in the Era of Neurobiology; PART III The Therapeutic Restoration of the Self; Chapter Eight The Role of Projective Identification in Imaginative Empathy; Chapter Nine Psychic Catastrophe and the Premature Birth of the Self: Implications for Treatment; Chapter Ten Lifting the Shadow of the Object: Reworking Pathological Internal Object Relationships and Transforming Selfobject Failures; References; Index
Summary The Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration is a rich and clinically detailed account of the therapeutic restoration of the self, and speaks to the healing process for analysts themselves that follows from Rochelle Kainer's sensitive integration of heretofore dissociated realms of psychoanalytic theory. In describing how the reworking of pathological internal object relationships occurs in conjunction with the transformation of selfobject failures, Kainer brings new insight to bear on the healing of the self at the same time as she contributes to healing the historic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index
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Subject Self.
Psychoanalysis.
Self psychology.
Ego
Psychoanalysis
Self Psychology
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Self psychology
Psychoanalysis
Self
Zelf.
Psychoanalyse.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134902866
1134902867
1299697550
9781299697553