Progress in Self Psychology, V. 12: Basic Ideas Reconsidered (Hardcover)

Rowe, Jr., Introduction: Notes on the Integration, Reformulation, and Development of Kohut's Contributions. Part I: Frustration and Responsiveness. MacIsaac,Optimal Frustration: An Endangered Concept. Bacal, Thomson,The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference. Shane, Shane,Self Psychology in Search of the Optimal: A Consideration of Optimal Responsiveness, Optimal Provision, Optimal Gratification, and Optimal Restraint in the Clinical Situation. Doctors,Notes on the Contribution of the Analyst's Self-Awareness to Optimal Responsiveness. Part II: Philosophical Issues. Riker,The Philosophical Importance of Kohut's Bipolar Theory of the Self. Kriegman,On the Existential/Subjectivism-Scientific/Objectivism Dialectic in Self Psychology: A View from Evolutionary Biology. Part III: Clinical. Lachmann, Beebe,The Contribution of Self- and Mutual Regulation to Therapeutic Action: A Case Illustration. Livingston,Countertransference and Curative Process with "Nondifficult" Patients. Gehrie,Empathy to Broader Perspective: A Technical Approach to the Consequences of the Negative Selfobject in Early Character Formation. Part IV: Child Studies. Suth,A Self-Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study. Shane,Discussion of "A Self-Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study." Hagman,Flight from the Subjectivity of the Other: Pathological Adaptation to Childhood Parent Loss. Part V: Applied. Baker, Baker,A Self-Psychological Approach to ADHD in Adults: A Paradigm to Integrate the Biopsychosocial Model of Psychiatric Illness. Palumbo,Discussion of "A Self-Psychological Approach to ADHD in Adults." Rector,The Function of Early Selfobject Experiences in Gendered Representation of God. Crawford,The Severed Self: Gender as Trauma. Pangerl,Self Psychology: A Feminist Re-Visioning.