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The Analysis of Failure
An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of frustration and vexation to clinicians, who...
Published August 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 18
Postmodern Self Psychology
Postmodern Self Psychology, the last volume of the Progress in Self Psychology series under the editorship of Arnold Goldberg, charts the path of self psychology into the postmodern era of psychoanalysis. It begins with Goldberg's thoughtful consideration of the several tributaries of...
Published September 30th 2002 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 17
The Narcissistic Patient Revisited
Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. Taken together,...
Published October 31st 2001 by Routledge
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Errant Selves
A Casebook of Misbehavior
A major addition to the psychoanalytic casebook literature, Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior is a collection of case studies dedicated to the psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of behavior disorders. The contributors to this volume explore cases of perversion, delinquency, and...
Published October 31st 2000 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 16
How Responsive Should We Be?
Volume 16 of Progress in Self Psychology, How Responsive Should We Be, illuminates the continuing tension between Kohut's emphasis on the patient's subjective experience and the post-Kohutian intersubjectivists' concern with the therapist's own subjectivity by focusing on issues of therapeutic...
Published October 31st 2000 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 15
Pluralism in Self Psychology
Volume 15 of Progress in Self Psychology conveys the rich pluralism of contemporary self psychology with respect to a central theoretical and clinical issue: the nature of the self and the manner in which is can best be studied. This topic is initially addressed through a series of papers...
Published October 31st 1999 by Routledge
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Being of Two Minds
The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
From the unfaithful husband to the binge eater, from the secret cross-dresser to the pilferer of worthless items, there are those who seem to live two lives, to be divided selves, to be literally of two minds. This division or "vertical split" appears in a person at odds with himself, a person who...
Published April 30th 1999 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 14
The World of Self Psychology
Volume 14 of Progress in Self Psychology, The World of Self Psychology, introduces a valuable new section to the series: publication of noteworthy material from the Kohut Archives of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In this volume, "From the Kohut Archives" features a selection of...
Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
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Progress in Self Psychology, V. 13
Conversations in Self Psychology
Volume 13 provides valuable examples of the very type of clinically grounded theorizing that represents progress in self psychology. The opening section of clinical papers encompasses compensatory structures, facilitating responsiveness, repressed memories, mature selfobject experience, shame in...
Published September 30th 1997 by Routledge