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The Curve of Life

Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

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The Curve of Life

Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of this century's most important intellectuals. A rebel, according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. His success in treating narcissistic disorders and his highly influential book How Does Analysis Cure? established Kohut's Self Psychology as the strongest rival to traditional psychoanalysis today. The Curve of Life reveals Kohut's private and public life through a unique collection of lively and thoughtful correspondence with colleagues, public figures, family, and close friends. Over 300 never-before-published letters, drawn from Kohut's private files and from colleagues, cover Kohut's life from his native Austria in the 1930s until his death in 1981. Because many of his letters were so substantive, this rich collection clarifies Kohut's landmark published works. In letters to such diverse personalities as Anna Freud and Bruno Walter, Kohut meditated on some of the most intriguing psychoanalytic questions of the day—the nature of psychological cure, the relationship between doctor and patient, and the role of the Oedipus complex in psychoanalysis. The correspondence also reveals Kohut's lively interest in literature, music, history, and culture, as well as his deep and often contentious involvement in the politics of the psychoanalytic movement. Kohut discussed his theories in letters to August Aichhorn, Heinz Hartmann, the Surgeon General, and even Jacqueline Kennedy, and the responses, some published here for the first time, prompted him to explore his ideas from a variety of perspectives. A letter from Anna Freud provoked Kohut to respond this way: "What you had to say gave me great pleasure, and your approval was a welcome support amidst the inescapable insecurities under pressure to which we are all exposed. Strangely enough, it was not the discussion of scientific contributions and other statements that I had sent to you but the very last, parting sentence of your letter which gave me the most food for thought. You sent me your best wishes for the presidency of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and expressed the hope that '...this office permits opportunity for some revolutionary moves.'" The Curve of Life illuminates the evolution of Kohut's theory of the psychology of the self, and provides a rare glimpse into the institutional and intellectual history of psychoanalysis in the last half of this century. These letters will fascinate not only scholars in psychoanalysis, but also those in the humanities, social sciences, and even theology, as well as general readers curious about the private thoughts of a towering figure in intellectual life.

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022616599X

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9780226165998

How Does Analysis Cure?

By: Heinz Kohut,Paul E. Stepansky

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How Does Analysis Cure?

By: Heinz Kohut,Paul E. Stepansky

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.

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978

By: Heinz Kohut

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Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978

By: Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut was born on May 3, 1913 in Vienna, Austria—a country whose culture, literature and music permeated his very being. He finished his medical studies in 1938, after Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany, giving him little time to escape the horrors that awaited the Jews in that country. He then spent a year in England, from where he emigrated to the United State and settled in Chicago in 1939.

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0429907869

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

The re-issuing of the four volumes of the author'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 the author'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 psychoanalytic self psychology more profoundly, but also to appreciate the author's sustained openness to further changes - to dare to present his self psychology as in continued flux, influenced by newly emerging empirical data of actual clinical practice. The current re-issue of the four volumes of The Search for the Self would assure that the younger generation of psychoanalysts would be exposed to a clinical theory that could contribute greatly to solving the therapeutic dilemmas facing psychoanalysis today

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0429907893

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The Analysis of the Self

A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

By: Heinz Kohut

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The Analysis of the Self

A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders

By: Heinz Kohut

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis of the Self, Kohut established the industry standard of the treatment of personality disorders for a generation of analysts. This volume, best known for its groundbreaking analysis of narcissism, is essential reading for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand human personality in its many incarnations. “Kohut has done for narcissism what the novelist Charles Dickens did for poverty in the nineteenth century. Everyone always knew that both existed and were a problem. . . . The undoubted originality is to have put it together in a form which carries appeal to action.”—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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0226450147

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978

By: Heinz Kohut

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Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1950-1978

By: Heinz Kohut

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0429922094

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How Does Analysis Cure?

By: Heinz Kohut,Paul E. Stepansky

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By: Heinz Kohut,Paul E. Stepansky

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The Curve of Life

Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

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Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 1923-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

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The Search for the Self

Selected Writings of Heinz Kohut 1978-1981

By: Heinz Kohut

Suitable for psychoanalysts who are interested in both the theoretical and the therapeutic aspects of psychoanalysis, this title contains the author's pre-self psychology essays. It continues with the collection of his selected writings and letters from 1978 until his death in 1981.

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1855758792

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Treating Attachment Disorders

From Theory to Therapy

By: Karl Heinz Brisch

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Treating Attachment Disorders

From Theory to Therapy

By: Karl Heinz Brisch

Organized around extended case illustrations?and grounded in cutting-edge theory and research?this highly regarded book shows how an attachment perspective can inform psychotherapeutic practice with patients of all ages. Karl Heinz Brisch explores the links between early experiences of separation, loss, and trauma and a range of psychological, behavioral, and psychosomatic problems. He demonstrates the basic techniques of attachment-based assessment and intervention, emphasizing the healing power of the therapeutic relationship. With a primary focus on treating infants and young children and their caregivers, the book discusses applications of attachment-based psychotherapy over the entire life course. New to This Edition*Incorporates advances in research on neurobiology, genetics, and psychotraumatology.*Expanded with a section on inpatient treatment for traumatized children, including in-depth cases.*Describes two promising prevention programs for expectant couples, families, and young children.*The latest knowledge on disorganized attachment, attachment disorders, and assessments.

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Guilford Publications

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1462519261

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Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

The Path from Impasse to Development

By: Heinz Weiss

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Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

The Path from Impasse to Development

By: Heinz Weiss

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of reparative processes which pave the way from impasse to development. The book explores the issue of trauma with particular reference to issues of reparation and guilt. Referencing the original work of Klein and others, it examines how feelings of persistent guilt work to foil attempts at reparation, locking trauma deep within the psyche. It provides a theoretical understanding of the interplay between feelings of neediness with those of fear, wrath, shame and guilt, and offers a route for patients to experience the mourning and forgiveness necessary to come to terms with their own trauma. The book includes a Foreword by John Steiner. Illustrated by clinical examples throughout, it is written by an author whose empathy and experience make him an expert in the field. The book will be of great interest to psychotherapists, social workers and any professional working with traumatized individuals.

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042958959X

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Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity

Escaping the Woman Within

By: Heinz Tschachler

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Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity

Escaping the Woman Within

By: Heinz Tschachler

Washington Irving remains one of the most recognized American authors of the 19th century, remembered for short stories like Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He also accomplished other writing feats, including penning George Washington's biography and other life stories. Throughout his life, Irving was at odds with socially-approved ways of "being a man." Irving purportedly saw himself and was seen by others as feminine, shy, and non-confrontational. Likely related to this, he chose to engage with other men's fortunes and adventures by writing, defining his male identity vicariously, through masculine archetypes both fictional and non-fictional. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, this reading reconstructs Irving's life-long struggle to somehow win a place among other men. Readers will recognize masculine themes in his tales from the Spanish period, his western adventures, as well as in historical biographies of Columbus, Mahomet, and Washington. In many writings by Irving, especially Sleepy Hollow, readers will observe themes dominated by masculinity. The book is the first of its kind to encompass and examine Irving's writings.

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McFarland

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1476645078

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Kohut's Freudian Vision

By: Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz,Heinz Kohut

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Kohut's Freudian Vision

By: Philip F. D. Rubovits-Seitz,Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut was arguably the most influential modern day psychoanalyst. Because current interest in Kohut's work has focused so completely on self psychology, however, certain aspects of Kohut's thinking, in particular his nonreductive synthesis of Freudian theory, are in danger of being lost. Prior to his development of self psychology, Kohut was a legendary teacher of Freudian theory at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In this volume, Philip Rubovits-Seitz presents Kohut's previously unavailable lectures from his course on psychoanalytic psychology (prepared in collaboration with Kohut himself) along with an illuminating summary statement on Freudian theory jointly written by Kohut and Rubovits-Seitz. Rubovits-Seitz continues with his own insightful analysis of Kohut's distinctive approach to Freudian theory. And he concludes by arguing persuasively why Kohut's later contributions should best be viewed as a continuation, rather than an abandonment, of this early vision. Kohut's Freudian Vision not only repairs an outstanding tear in received psychoanalytic history but also challenges self psychologists and contemporary Freudian psychoanalysts alike to renewed reflection.

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0881632848

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Book's by Heinz Kohut

The Curve of Life

The Curve of Life

How Does Analysis Cure?

How Does Analysis Cure?

The Search for the Self

The Search for the Self

The Search for the Self

The Search for the Self

The Analysis of the Self

The Analysis of the Self

The Search for the Self

The Search for the Self

How Does Analysis Cure?

How Does Analysis Cure?

The Curve of Life

The Curve of Life

The Search for the Self

The Search for the Self

Treating Attachment Disorders

Treating Attachment Disorders

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity

Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity

Kohut's Freudian Vision

Kohut's Freudian Vision

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