Pluralism in Self Psychology

375 Pages·1999·156.504 MB·English

by  Arnold I. Goldberg

PLURALISM IN
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Progress in Self Psychology
Volume 15
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Progress in Self Psychology
Editor, Arnold Goldberg, M.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
James L. Fosshage, Ph.D.
Mark J. Gehrie, Ph.D.
Hans-Peter Hartmann, M.D.
Wolfgang E. Milch, M.D.
Estelle Shane, Ph.D.
Morton Shane, M.D.
EDITORIAL BOARD
James M. Fisch, M.D.
Henry Friedman, M.D.
Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.
Charles Jaffe, M.D.
Daniel Kriegman, Ph.D.
Robert J. Leider, M.D.
Arthur Malin, M.D.
Anna Ornstein, M.D.
Paul H. Ornstein, M.D.
Judith Guss Teicholz, Ed.D.
Marian Tolpin, M.D.
Paul H. Tolpin, M.D.
Ernest S. Wolf, M.D.
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PLURALISM IN
SELF PSYCHOLOGY
Progress in Self Psychology
Volume 15
Arnold Goldberg
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1999 Hillsdale, NJ London
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Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Ms. Christine Susman, who provided secre
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Contents
Contributors xi
Introduction
James M. Fisch xv
1. From the Kohut Archives
Charles B. Strozier 1
I T HE CLINICAL SITUATION
2. The Selfobject Transferences Reconsidered
Crayton E. Rowe, Jr. 15
3. The Selfobject Function of Interpretation
Peter Buirski and Pamela Haglund 31
4. The Optimal Conversation: A Concern About
Current Trends Within Self Psychology
Allen M. Siegel 51
II THEORY OF TECHNIQUE
5. On Boundaries and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis
Mark J. Gehrie 83
6. Analytic Boundaries as a Function of Curative
Theory: Discussion of Mark Gehrie's "On
Boundaries and Intimacy in Psychoanalysis"
Linda A. Chern us 95
7. Surface, Depth, and the Isolated Mind
Barry Magid 107
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III KLEIN AND KOHUT
8. Melanie Klein and Heinz Kohut:
An Odd Couple or Secretly Connected?
James S. Grotstein 123
9. Insight, Empathy, and Projective Identification
Craig Powell 147
IV CASE STUDIES
10. A Life of One's Own: A Case Study of the Loss
and Restoration of the Sense of Personal Agency
Dorthy M. Levinson and George E. Atwood 163
11. An Instrument of Possibilities: A Discussion
of Dorothy M. Levinson and George E. Atwood's
"A Life of One's Own"
William J. Coburn 183
12. Response to Coburn
Dorthy M. Levinson and George E. Atwood 191
Questions and Responses Regarding
Levinson and Atwood's Chapter 193
13. The Case of Joanna Churchill
Alan Kindler 197
14. Tracking Alan Kindler's Case Report:
A Self and Motivational Systems Perspective
James L. Fosshage 207
15. The Centrality of the Selfobject Transferences:
A Discussion of Alan Kindler's Clinical Report
Paul H. Ornstein 215
16. Antidotes, Enactments, Rituals, and the Dance
of Reassurance: Comments on the Case of
Joanna Churchill and Alan Kindler
Robert D. Stolorow 229
17. Reply to the Discussions
Alan Kindler 233
Summation of Discussions
James M. Fisch 241
18. Changing Patterns in Parenting: Comments on the
Origin and Consequences of Unmodified Grandiosity
Anna Ornstein 245
19. The Therapeutic Partnership: A Developmental View
of Self-Psychological Treatment as Bilateral Healing
Doris Brothers and Ellen Lewinberg 259
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Contents ix
V AFFECTS
20. Affects and Affect Consciousness: A Psychotherapy
Model Integrating Silvan Tomkins's Affect- and Script
Theory Within the Framework of Self Psychology
Jon T Monsen and Kirsti Monsen 287
21. The Self and Its Past: On Shame and the
"Biographical Void"
Martin Gossmann 307
22. Death and the Self
Charles B. Strozier 321
Author Index 343
Subject Index 347
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