Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology [Hardcover]

Hailed as a superb textbook aimed at introducing psychoanalytic self psychology to students of psychotherapy (Robert D. Stolorow), Psychotherapy After Kohut is unique in its grasp of the theoretical, clinical, and historical grounds of the emergence of this new psychotherapy paradigm.  Lee and Martin acknowledge self psychology's roots in Freud's pioneering clinical discoveries and go on to document its specific indebtedness to the work of Sandor Ferenczi and British object relations theory.  Proceeding to readable, scholarly expositions of the principal concepts introduced by Heinz Kohut, the founder of self psychology, they skillfully explore the further blossoming of the paradigm in the decade following Kohut's death.  In tracing the trajectory of self psychology after Kohut, Lee and Martin pay special attention to the impact of contemporary infancy research, intersubjectivity theory, and recent empirical and clinical findings about affect development and the meaning and treatment of trauma.

1. Introduction  2. The Magical Covenant  3. Freud as Clinician  4. Freud's Mental Apparatus  5. Drive and Conflict Theory  6. Ferenczi, the Dissident  7. The British School  8. Metatheory: Theory about Psychotherapy Theory  9. Empathic Understanding  10. Narcissism  11. Mirror Transference  12. Idealizing Transference  13. Twinship and Merger Transferences  14. Selfobject Experiences  15. The Self System  16. Conflict and Deficit Theories  17. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy  18. Transference as Organizing Principle  19. Structuralization  20. Negative Therapeutic Reactions  21. Affects  22. Trauma  23. Mutual Influence Theory  24. Toward a General Theory

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