This book revisits in depth Kohut's own accounts of his theory and clinical work and links them with other contemporary perspectives within psychoanalysis. Contents:



Rage, shame and presymbolic dread
Discerning invisible structures
Perversion, the vertical split and the psychoeconomic dimension
The healing process in Kohut's psychoanalysis
Empathy and the intersubjectivists
Kohut and the internal object
Impasse and Oedipus
Schizophrenia and depression
The fragmented self and the thwarted self
The developmental neurobiology of the self object relationship
Self psychology perspectives on childhood trauma
Further reflections on psychoanalytic cure