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The instincts fade away as Kohut embraces human beings rather than victims of drives,” writes Kohut's biographer Charles B. Strozier. What emerges is a practice in which the analyst is emotionally involved in the patient's life. The theory is “flexible, open-ended, mutual and empathic. Analysis makes possible the pure gold of psychotherapy ...
Allen Siegel: Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self (Makers of Modern Psychotherapy) (1996), ISBN 0-415-08637-X. Kohut's Legacy: Contributions to Self Psychology (1984). Edited by Paul E. Stepansky and Arnold Goldberg. The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, N.J. ISBN 0-88163-016-0. Charles B. Strozier: Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst ...
Kohut explained, in 1977, that in all he wrote on the psychology of the self, he purposely did not define the self. He explained his reasoning this way: "The self...is, like all reality...not knowable in its essence...We can describe the various cohesive forms in which the self appears, can demonstrate the several constituents that make up the self ... and explain their genesis and functions.
Heinz Kohut is commonly considered the pioneer of the relational and intersubjective approaches. Following him, significant contributors include Robert D Stolorow Ph.D Stephen A. Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin, Bernard Brandchaft, James Fosshage, Donna M.Orange, Arnold Modell, Thomas Ogden, Owen Renik, Harold Searles, Colwyn Trewarthen, Edgar A. Levenson, J. R. Greenberg, Edward R. Ritvo, Beatrice ...
[1] [20] Kohut's research showed that if early narcissistic needs could be adequately met, the individual would move on to what he called a "mature form of positive self-esteem; self-confidence" or healthy narcissism. [21] In Kohut's tradition, the features of healthy narcissism are: Strong self-regard. Empathy for others and recognition of ...
According to Strozier, Kohut "remains in constant dialogue—and disagreement—with the master" [i.e. Freud]. Restoration is in this sense a meditation on Freud, even though, Kohut argues, he is no longer a relevant thinker, neither historically, conceptually, therapeutically or philosophically. [4] "Freud's values were not primarily health ...
In psychology, introjection (also known as identification or internalization) [1] is the unconscious adoption of the thoughts or personality traits of others. [2] It occurs as a normal part of development, such as a child taking on parental values and attitudes. It can also be a defense mechanism in situations that arouse anxiety. [2]
Kohut extended Winnicott's work in his investigation of narcissism, [18] seeing narcissists as evolving a defensive armor around their damaged inner selves. [19] He considered it less pathological to identify with the damaged remnants of the self, than to achieve coherence through identification with an external personality at the cost of one's ...