Delivered to advanced candidates at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, the lectures contained in this volume address topics including the role of self-object failures on psychopathology and the relationship between givens and the psychological environment in pathogenesis.

Heinz Kohut, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, developed the concepts and theories of self psychology. This posthumous book presents his writings and teachings, about the role of the individual, as well as of the "group self," in history, art, religion, and politics. Through the application of self psychology to literature and history, Kohut illuminates the role of the "nuclear self" in the hero and the tragic man, exemplified by Shakespeare's Hamlet, and probes the meaning of historical events, such as the rise of Hitler in Germany.

Heinz Kohut's theories have had a tremendous influence on our thinking about the development of the self. This book highlights the clinical application of those theories. The seminars, focusing on treatment of late adolescents and young adults in a university setting, provide the reader with an unparalleled opportunity to study the spontaneous workings of Kohut's mind as he moved from clinical experience to theory and then back to clinical experiences. After the initial chapters on the theory of self psychology, each chapter opens with a case presentation by one of the seminar participants;...

In Die Heilung des Selbst arbeitet Heinz Kohut die Psychologie des Selbst weiter aus, die er nun nicht mehr wie in seinem Buch über den Narzißmus in der Sprache der klassischen Triebtheorie darstellt. Um die Umrisse einer Psychologie des Selbst zu zeichnen und zu einer Definition dessen zu gelangen, was zu einer Heilung des pathologischen Selbst führt, unterzieht Kohut ein breites Spektrum theoretischer Konzepte einer erneuten Prüfung: Wie verändert sich der Triebbegriff durch die Betonung des Selbst, und wie verhält sich die Triebtheorie zur Psychologie des Selbst? Wie wird der Begriff...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit über Narzißmus entwirft Kohut eine Theorie der psychoanalytischen Behandlung narzißtischer Persönlichkeitsstörungen. Er widerlegt damit die Ansicht, daß Patienten, die unter Störungen dieser Art leiden, der psychoanalytischen Behandlungstechnik schwer zugänglich seien, weil deren wichtigstes Instrument, nämlich die Übertragung, das heißt die Aktualisierung früher Objekterfahrungen in gegenwärtigen Beziehungen, besonders zum Analytiker, ja nicht funktionieren könne. Nachdem er in langjährigen Untersuchungen zu einer größeren begrifflichen Klarheit...

-The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; The Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?

These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of...

-The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; The Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?

These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of...

-The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; The Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?

These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of...

-The re-issuing of the four volumes of Heinz Kohut's writings is a major publishing event for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis. These volumes contain Kohut's pre-self psychology essays as well as those he wrote in order to continue to expand on his groundbreaking ideas, which he presented in The Analysis of the Self; The Restoration of the Self; and in How Does Analysis Cure?

These volumes of The Search for the Self permit the reader to understand not only the above three basic texts of...