The Analysis of the Self
A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
The Analysis of the Self
A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders
“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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS
Part I
The Therapeutic Activation of the Omnipotent Object
2. THE IDEALIZING TRANSFERENCE
3. A CLINICAL ILLUSTRATION OF IDEALIZING TRANSFERENCE
4. CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTIC ASPECTS OF THE IDEALIZING TRANSFERENCE
The Idealizing Transference Distinguished from Mature Forms of Idealization Varieties of Idealizing Transference
The Process of Working Through and Other Clinical Problems in the Idealizing Transference
Part II
The Therapeutic Activation of the Grandiose Self
5. TYPES OF MIRROR TRANSFERENCES: A CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO DEVELOPMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
The Merger Through the Extension of the Grandiose Self
The Alter-Ego Transference or Twinship
The Mirror Transference in the Narrower Sense
Clinical Examples
6. TYPES OF MIRROR TRANSFERENCES: A CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO GENETIC-DYNAMIC CONSIDERATIONS
The Primary Mirror Transference
The Reactive Mobilization of the Grandiose Self
The Secondary Mirror Transference
7. THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS IN THE MIRROR TRANSFERENCES
Acting Out in the Narcissistic Transferences: The Problem of Therapeutic Activism
The Goals of the Working-Through Process Concerning the Activated Grandiose Self
The Functions of the Analyst in the Analysis of the Mirror Transference
The Significance of the Mirror Transference as the Instrumentality of the Working-Through Process
General Remarks about the Mechanisms Which Bring about Therapeutic Progress in Psychoanalysis
Part III
Clinical and Technical Problems in the Narcissistic Transferences
8. GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT NARCISSISTIC TRANSFERENCES
Theoretical Considerations
Clinical Considerations
Traumatic States
9. CLINICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE NARCISSISTIC TRANSFERENCES
10. SOME REACTIONS OF THE ANALYST TO THE IDEALIZING TRANSFERENCE
11. SOME REACTIONS OF THE ANALYST TO THE MIRROR TRANSFERENCES
12. SOME THERAPEUTIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ANALYSIS OF NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITIES
Increase and Expansion of Object Love
Progressive and Integrative Developments within the Narcissistic Realm
Empathy
Creativeness
Humor and Wisdom
Bibliography
Concordance of Cases
Index