Name: How Does Analysis Cure?
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Author: Heinz Kohut
ISBN: 9780226450346

Type

Physical Book

Author

Heinz Kohut

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

1984

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

0226450341

ISBN13

9780226450346

Edition No.

Synopsis "How Does Analysis Cure? "

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.

Heinz Kohut

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Heinz Kohut was an Austrian psychoanalyst who developed his entire professional career in the city of Chicago, in the United States.

The most notable aspect of Kohut's life was the development of his theory on the self, which deviated from the framework of Freudian theories, his core construct being the “self” on the human personality.

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