Part 1 Theory and Clinical Work; Chapter 1 Acknowledgment of the Emerging Real Self; Chapter 2 Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self; Chapter 3 The Real Self; Chapter 4 The Impaired Real Self; Chapter 5 Treatment of the Impaired Real Self; Part 2 Sociocultural; Chapter 6 The Development of the Real Self and Maternal Libidinal Acknowledgment; Chapter 7 Sociocultural Values and the Real Self; Part 3 Creativity and the Real Self; Chapter 8 Personal and Artistic Creativity; Chapter 9 Thomas Wolfe’s Quest for a Real Self—The Struggle; Chapter 10 Thomas Wolfe’s Quest for a Real Self—Part Ial Fulfillment; Chapter 11 Discussion and Summary;