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Taylor & Francis Ltd Progress In Self Psychology V 14 1998 Edition by Arnold I. Goldberg
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 In this volume, "From the Kohut Archives" features a selection of previously unpublished Kohut correspondence from the 1940s through the 1970s. The clinical papers that follow are divided into sections dealing with "Transference and Countertransference," "Selfobjects and Objects," and " Schizoid and Psychotic Patients." As Howad Bacal explains in his introduction, these papers bear witness to the way in which self psychology has increasingly become a relational self psychology - a psychology of the individual's experience in the context of relatedness. Coburn's reconstrual of "countertransference" as an experience of self-injury in the wake of unresponsiveness to the analyst's own selfobject needs; Livingston's demonstration of the ways in which dreams can be used to facilitate "a playful and metaphorical communication between analyst and patient"; Gorney's examination of twinship experience as a fundamental goal of analytic technique; and Lenoff's emphasis on the relational aspects of "phantasy selfobject experience" are among the highlights of the collection. Enlarged by contemporary perspectives on gender and self-experience and a critical examination of "Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns," Volume 14 reaffirms the position of self psychology at the forefront of clinical, developmental, and conceptual advance. Introduction - Howard Bacal From the Kohut Archives - Charles B. Strozier I. Clinical Transference and Countertransference Patient Unconscious Communication and Analyst Narcissistic Vulnerability in the Countertransference Experience - William J. Coburn The Figure-Ground Relationship of the Selfobject and Repetitive Dimensions of the Transference - Jeffrey J. Mermelstein The Template or Transference: Some Thoughts About Mark Gehrie's " Empathy in Broader Perspective" - Jeffrey Stern The Playing Through of Selfobject Transferences of a Nine-Year-Old Boy - Iris Hilke Twinship, Vitality, Pleasure - James E. Gorney The Loss and Restoration of the Sense of Self in an Alien Culture: An Application of the Concept of the Twinship Selfobject Function - Hideki Wada Dreams, the Understanding-Explaining Sequence, and the Facilitation of Curative Process - Martin S. Livingston Phantasy Selfobjects and the Conditions of Therapeutic Change - Lester Lenoff Selfobject Need Conflict and Loss Experience: A Hidden Potential - Jack Kohl Dyadic Capacity: Progress in Narcissistic Development - Judith E. Levene and Taras Babiak Expressive Relating: The Intentional Use of the Analyst's Subjectivity - Lynn Preston The Development of a More Than Binary Self: Constructing a Common Language Between the Therapist and a Primitively Organized Schizoid Patient - Karen Yadley Cobb II. Gender Exploring the "Bi" Ways of Self-Experience: Dissociation, Alter Ego Selfobject Experience, and Gender - Doris Brothers Sex, Gender, and Intersubjectivity: The Two Analyses of Mr. G - Judith Kaufman Self and Relationship: Kohut, Loewald, and the Postmoderns - Judith Guss Teicholz The Freud-Jung Break: Reflections and Revisions in the Light of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology - Lionel Corbett and Anne-Lise Cohen