Self psychology: Today
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- self psychology-after-kohut-a-polylogue
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Psychoanalytic Dialogues
- Vol. 5 (3) , 375-384
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10481889509539075
Abstract
Self psychology is maintaining continuity with Kohut's last work, How Does Analysis Cure? and his vision of human nature, as well as exploring a multiplicity of new directions. This paper discusses the expansion of Kohut's contributions in terms of the “figure‐ground”; dimensions of transference: a selfobject dimension and representational configurations. On the basis of empirical studies of infancy, the paper proposes that both self‐ and mutual regulation organize the treatment relationship. It illustrates the clinical applicability of the expansion of Kohut's contributions by discussing a case in which countertransference, aggression, and resistance could place an analyst in danger of contributing to a therapeutic stalemate were it not for the contributions of Kohut.Keywords
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