Releasing the Self: The Healing Legacy of Heinz Kohut

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This book revisits in depth Kohuts own accounts of his theory and clinical work and links them with other contemporary perspectives within psychoanalysis. Contents: Rage shame and presymbolic dread Discerning invisible structures Perversion the vertical split and the psychoeconomic dimension The healing process in Kohuts psychoanalysis Empathy and the intersubjectivists Kohut and the internal object Impasse and Oedipus Schizophrenia and depression The fragmented self and the thwarted self The developmental neurobiology of the self object relationship Self psychology perspectives on childhood trauma Further reflections on psychoanalytic cure