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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

REFERENCES

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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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Subject Index
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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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Observation and Theory in Psychoanalysis: the Self Psychology of Heinz Kohut
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Self Psychology since Kohut, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly
by Arnold Goldberg. 16 pgs.

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Self Psychology since Kohut
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Lacan and the New Wave in American Psychoanalysis: The Subject and the Self
by Judith Feher Gurewich, Michel Tort, Susan Fairfield. 288 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Contributors

1: Who's Afraid of Jacques Lacan?

Glossary of Selected Lacanian Terms

Part I: Borderlines: Between French And American Psychoanalysis

2: The New Disorders of the Unconscious

3: The Development of the Concept of The "Borderline" in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis And Treatment

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4: A Borderline State of Humanity And The Fragmented Ego of the Analyst

5: The Concept of Borderline In French Psychoanalysis

Part II: Dialogues And Controversies

6: Empathy and the Therapeutic Dialogue: An Historical-Conceptual Overview of Self Psychology and a Brief Clinical Example

The Signifier at the Crossroads Between Sexuality and Trauma: Response To The Paper of Paul H. Ornstein, M.D.

7: Primary Self Pathology and the Process Of Healing: a Clinical Example

The Scope and the Limits of the Theory Of the Self in Psychoanalysis: Response to the Paper of Anna Ornstein, M.D.

8: Toward a Separate Line of Female Development: on Adolescence

In the Beginning Was Sexual Difference: Response to the Paper of Joan J. Zilbach, M.D., And Malkah T. Notman, M.D.

9: Aggression in Women: a Re-Examination

Woman: Access to Male Aggression Or to Desire?: Response to the Paper on Aggression In Women by Malkah T. Notman, M.D.

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10: Psychic Death and The Generation of Meaning

Meaning and the Direction of the Treatment: A Discussion of the Paper Of Arnold H. Modell, M.D.

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11: "Someday" and "If Only" Fantasies

The Borderline Patient and His Relation to The Present Moment: Response to the Paper of Salman Akhtar, M.D.

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Part Iii The Subject and the Self: Conclusions

Index
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Empowered Psychotherapy: Teaching Self-Processing: A New Approach to the Human Psyche and Its Reintegration
by Robert Langs, James S. Grotstein. 283 pgs.

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'Self-Processing' is Langs' development of self-analysis. He lays down a detailed technique and ground-rules for using this technique in everyday practice, in order to utilise the encoded impulses and adaptive processes of the client.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part One: Background Perspectives

Chapter One: The Goals Of Self-Processing Therapy

Chapter Two: The Evolution to Self-Processing

Part Two: Communication: Listening and Formulating

Chapter Three: The Surface Message

Chapter Four: The Implications Of Manifest Contents

Chapter Six: Trigger Decoding

Part Three: The Techniques Of Self-Processing

Chapter Seven: The Modes Of Self-Processing Therapy

Chapter Eight: The Frame Of the Self-Processing Class

Chapter Nine: Initiating The Self-Processing Class

Chapter Ten: The First Class

Chapter Eleven: The Focus on Resistances

Chapter Twelve: The Origination Narrative

Chapter Thirteen: Guided Associations

Chapter Fourteen: Self-Indicators and Triggers

Chapter Fifteen: Linking Triggers to Themes

Chapter Sixteen: The Self-Processing Tutorial And Personal Self-Processing

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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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Acknowledgments

Preface

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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References

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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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Acknowledgments

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

Notes

Index
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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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A Self-Psychology Approach to Narcissistic Personality Disorder: A Nursing Reflection, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
by Donna M. Czuchta Romano. 9 pgs.

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