Heinz Kohut The Making Of A Psychoanalyst

Author : Charles Strozier
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635421225
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst written by Charles Strozier and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinz Kohut (1913-1981) stood at the center of the twentieth-century psychoanalytic movement. After fleeing his native Vienna when the Nazis took power, he arrived in Chicago, where he spent the rest of his life. He became the most creative figure in the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is now remembered as the founder of 'self psychology,' whose emphasis on empathy sought to make Freudian psychoanalysis less neutral. Kohut's life invited complexity. He obfuscated his identity as a Jew, negotiated a protean sexuality, and could be surprisingly secretive about his health and other matters. In this biography, Charles Strozier shows Kohut as a paradigmatic figure in American intellectual life: a charismatic man whose ideas embodied the hope and confusions of a country still in turmoil. Inherent in his life and formulated in his work were the core issues of modern America. The years after World War II were the halcyon days of American psychoanalysis, which thrived as one analyst after another expanded upon Freud's insights. The gradual erosion of the discipline's humanism, however, began to trouble clinicians and patients alike. Heinz Kohut took the lead in the creation of the first authentically home-grown psychoanalytic movement. It took an emigre be so distinctly American. Strozier brings to his telling of Kohut's life all the tools of a skillful analyst: intelligence, erudition, empathy, contrary insight, and a willingness to look far below the surface.

Author : Heinz Kohut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022600614X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Does Analysis Cure? written by Heinz Kohut and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Terry D Cooper
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 071884081X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grace for the Injured Self written by Terry D Cooper and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposal of Grace for the Injured Self is to help the reader to understand the significance of psychological injuries that we all may suffer. Even under the best circumstances in life, these injuries may threaten our self-cohesion and self-esteem. Cooper and Randall refer to the self psychology approach and perspective of Heinz Kohut -considered by many people as the most significant psychoanalyst since Sigmund Freud- as a way of healing these injuries. The book constantly stresses the empathic presence of another as a source of grace: the empathic responsiveness of others holds our selves together and helps us not to fall apart.

Author : Heinz Kohut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226111709
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Curve of Life written by Heinz Kohut and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In letters to such personalities as Anna Freud and Heinz Hartmann, 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. In other letters, Kohut reveals his lively interest in literature, music, history, and culture, as well as his deep and often contentious involvement in the politics of the psychoanalytic movement.

Author : Heinz Kohut
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226450147
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Analysis of the Self written by Heinz Kohut and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : George Hagman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429755945
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intersubjective Self Psychology written by George Hagman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer offers a comprehensive overview of the theory of Intersubjective Self Psychology and its clinical applications. Readers will gain an in depth understanding of one of the most clinically relevant analytic theories of the past half-century, fully updated and informed by recent discoveries and developments in the field of Intersubjectivity Theory. Most importantly, the volume provides detailed chapters on the clinical treatment principles of Intersubjective Self Psychology and their application to a variety of clinical situations and diagnostic categories such as trauma, addiction, mourning, child therapy, couples treatment, sexuality, suicide and sever pathology. This useful clinical tool will support and inform everyday psychotherapeutic work. Retaining Kohut’s emphasis on the self and selfobject experience, the book conceptualizes the therapeutic situation as a bi-directional field of needed and dreaded selfobject experiences of both patient and analyst. Through a rigorous application of the ISP model, each chapter sheds light on the complex dynamic field within which self-experience and selfobject experience of patient and analyst/therapist unfold and are sustained. The ISP perspective allows the therapist to focus on the patient’s strengths, referred to as the Leading Edge, without neglecting work with the repetitive transferences, or Trailing Edge. This dual focus makes ISP a powerful agent for transformation and growth. Intersubjective Self Psychology provides a unified and comprehensive model of psychological life with specific, practical applications that are clinically informative and therapeutically powerful. The book represents a highly useful resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists around the world.

Author : Heinz Kohut
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429907869
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Self written by Heinz Kohut and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles B. Strozier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023115898X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Fires Stopped Burning written by Charles B. Strozier and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects interviews with survivors, bystanders, and emergency workers during the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, focusing on the different "zones of sadness" affected by the attack.

Author : Allen M. Siegel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134883927
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self written by Allen M. Siegel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinz Kohut's work represents an important departure from the Freudian tradition of psychoanalysis. A founder of the Self Psychology movement in America, he based his practice on the belief that narcissistic vulnerabilities play a significant part in the suffering that brings people for treatment. Written predominantly for a psychoanalytic audience Kohut's work is often difficult to interpret. Siegel uses examples from his own practice to show how Kohut's innovative theories can be applied to other forms of treatment.

Author : Jan Fredenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heinz Kohut and Self Psychology written by Jan Fredenborg and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: