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Self-Psychology and Diagnostic Assessment: Identifying Selfobject Functions through Psychological Testing
by Marshall L. Silverstein. 316 pgs.

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The LEA Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology

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Preface

Part I: Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

1: The Shift from Classical Drive Theory to Self Psychology

2: Self Psychology: Major Concepts

3: The Central Role of Selfobject Functions

Part II: Selfobject Functions: Psychodiagnostic Indications

4: Content Analysis of Psychodiagnostic Testing: A Pathway to Understanding Self States

5: Clinical Indications of Selfobject Functions: Mirroring

6: Clinical Indications of Selfobject Functions: Idealization and Twinship

7: Ms. T.: Mirroring

8: Mr. L.: Idealization and Twinship

POSTSCRIPT: SUMMARY AND REFLECTIONS

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The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self
by Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, Bertram J. Cohler. 484 pgs.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 2 the Human Environment of Infancy

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Chapter 3 Toddlerhood: the Self and Morality

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Chapter 4 the Toddler Years: Language, Play, Sex, and Anality

Chapter 5 Early Childhood

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Chapter 6 Moving into the Larger World: Middle Childhood

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Chapter 7 Adolescence and Youth

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Chapter 8 Youth and Young Adulthood: Generation, Education, and the Family

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Chapter 9 Stable Adulthood: Work

Chapter 10 Courtship, Engagement, Relationship, and Marriage

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Chapter 11 Midlife

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Chapter 13 Conclusion

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Observation and Theory in Psychoanalysis: The Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly
by Leon Balter. 35 pgs.

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Self Psychology since Kohut, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly
by Arnold Goldberg. 16 pgs.

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Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy (Chap. 3 "Self Psychology")
by Kevin A. Fall, Janice Miner Holder, Andre Marquis. 500 pgs.

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Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy covers all the basic counseling theories, but goes one step further by exploring new, cutting-edge techniques, and focusing on the integration of various theoretical approaches.

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Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Classical Psychoanalysis

Chapter 3: Self Psychology

Chapter 4: Adlerian Counseling/ Individual Psychology

Chapter 5: Existential Counseling

Chapter 6: Person-Centered Counseling

Chapter 7: Gestalt Counseling

Chapter 8: Reality Therapy and Choice Theory

Chapter 9: Behavioral Counseling

Chapter 10: Cognitive Counseling

Chapter 11: Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

Chapter 12: Systems Approaches

Chapter 13: Integral Counseling: the Prepersonal, Personal, and Transpersonal in Self, Culture, and Nature

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The Empathic Reader: A Study of the Narcissistic Character and the Drama of the Self (Chap. 1 "Kohut's Psychology of the Self, Empathy, and the Reading Process")
by J. Brooks Bouson. 220 pgs.

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To the Memory of My Father

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Acknowledgments

Introductory Remarks

Part I: Psychoanalytic Self Psychology

One: Kohut's Psychology of the Self, Empathy, and The Reading Process

Part II: Tragic Man

Two: Narcissistic Vulnerability And Rage in Dostoevsky'S Notes from Underground

Three: Insect Transformation as A Narcissistic Metaphor in Kafka'S Metamorphosis

Four: Empathy and Self-Validation In Bellow'S Seize the Day

Five: Storytelling as Attempted Self-Rescue In Conrad's "Secret Sharer" And "Heart of Darkness"

Six: Defensive Aestheticism and Self-Dissolution: The Demise of the Artist in Mann'S Death in Venice

Part III: Tragic Woman

Seven: The Evasion of Narcissistic Anxieties in Lessing'S Summer Before the Dark

Eight: Self-Dispersal and Self-Assemblage: The Artistic Reconstitution of the Broken Self in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Nine: Comic Storytelling as Escape And Narcissistic Self-Expression In Atwood's Lady Oracle

In Conclusion: Empathic Reading and the Critic/Reader

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Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Chap. 6 "Psychologies of Identity and Self: Erik Erikson and Heinz Kohut")
by Stephen A. Mitchell, Margaret J. Black. 319 pgs.

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1: Sigmund Freud and the Classical Psychoanalytic Tradition

2: Ego Psychology

3: Harry Stack Sullivan and Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

4: Melanie Klein and Contemporary Klein and Theory

5: The British Object Relations School: W. R. D. Fairbairn and D. W. Winnicott

6: Psychologies of Identity and Self: Erik Erikson and Heinz Kohut

7: Contemporary Freudian Revisionists: Otto Kernberg, Roy Schafer, Hans Loewald, and Jacques Lacan

8: Controversies in Theory

9: Controversies in Technique

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Handbook of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (Chap. 11 "Shorter-Term Psychotherapy: A Self Psychological Approach")
by Paul Crits-Christoph, Jacques P. Barber. 365 pgs.

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Chapter 1: Introduction and Historical Background

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Chapter 2: Time Limited Psychotherapy

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Chapter 3: Short-Term Anxiety-Provoking Psychotherapy

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Chapter 4: Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

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Chapter 5: Short-Term Supportive-Expressive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Chapter 6: The Vanderbilt Approach to Time-Limited Dynamic Pschotherapy

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Chapter 7: Short-Term Dynamic Therapy of Stress Response Syndromes

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Chapter 8 Brief Adaptive Psychotherapy

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Chapter 9: Dynamic Supportive Psychotherapy

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Chapter 10: Brief Sasb-Directed Reconstructive Learning Therapy

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Chapter 11: Shorter-Term Psychotherapy: a Self Psychological Approach

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Chapter 12: Comparison of the Brief Dynamic Therapies

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Comparative Treatments of Depression (Chap. 7 "A Self Psychology Approach for Depression")
by Mark A. Reinecke, Michael R. Davison. 510 pgs.

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1: Alternative Treatments of Depression

2: Treatment for Depression

3: Cultural Considerations for Understanding, Assessing, and Treating Depressive Experience and Disorder

4: The Case of Nancy

5: Individual Psychology of Depression

6: An Object Relations View of Depression

7: A Self Psychology Approach for Depression

8: Supportive-Expressive Psychodynamic Therapy for Depression

9: Behavioral Therapy of Depression

10: Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy for Depression

11: Cognitive Therapies of Depression

12: Schema-Focused Therapy for Depression

13: Interpersonal Psychotherapy

14: Couple and Family Therapy

15: Integrative Conceptualization and Treatment of Depression

16: Psychopharmacology of Major Depression

17: Comparative Treatments of Depression

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Index
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Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy (Chap. 8 "Self-Liberation through Consumerism: Post-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self Psychology, and the Empty Self")
by Philip Cushman. 448 pgs.

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Chapter One Psychotherapy, the Impossible Bridge

Chapter Two Selves, Illnesses, Healers, Technologies

Chapter Three the Self in America

Chapter Four Healing Through Self-Domination: Capitalism, the Asylum, the Untamed Female Body, and Freud

Chapter Five Healing Through Self-Liberation: Mesmerism and the Enchanted American Interior of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter Six Strange Bedfellows: The Americanization of Psychoanalysis in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter Seven the Road Not Taken: Harry Stack Sullivan, Melanie Klein, and the Location of the Social

Chapter Eight Self-Liberation Through Consumerism: Post-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self Psychology, and the Empty Self

Conclusion

Chapter Nine Psychotherapy as Moral Discourse: A Hermeneutic Alternative

Appendix: the Self in Western Society

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