Heinz Kohut (1913–1981)

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction 2. idealizing transference 3. a clinical illustration of idealizing transference 4. clinical and therapeutic aspects of the idealizing transference 5. types of mirror transference: a classification according to developmental considerations 6. types of mirror transferences: a classification according to genetic dynamic considerations 7. the therapeutic process in the mirror transference 8. general remarks about narcissistic transferences 9. clinical show more illustration of the narcissistic transference 10. some reactions of the analyst to the idealizing transference 11. some reactions of the analyst to the mirror transference 12. some therapeutic transformations in the analysis of narcissistic personalities. Source: Publisher

Review from 2013 University of Chicago Press edition: 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 show less

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