| How Does Analysis Cure? First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Kohut, Heinz (Author), Goldberg, Arnold (Editor) |
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ISBN: 022600600X ISBN-13: 9780226006000 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy in order to shed light on human behavior. In How Does Analysis Cure? Kohut presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology, and carefully lays out how the self develops over the course of time. Kohut also specifically defines healthy and unhealthy cases of Oedipal complexes and narcissism, while investigating the nature of analysis itself as treatment for pathologies. This in-depth examination of "the talking cure" explores the lesser studied phenomena of psychoanalysis, including when it is beneficial for analyses to be left unfinished, and the changing definition of "normal." An important work for working psychoanalysts, this book is important not only for psychologists, but also for anyone interested in the complex inner workings of the human psyche. |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldberg, Arnold: - Arnold Goldberg, MD, is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago and the Cynthia Oudejan Harris, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical School. He is the author of The Problem of Perversion; Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; and Misunderstanding Freud. |