Contributions Of Self Psychology Research Articles

Introductory Remarks for the Case of Lod: Self Psychology and Weakened Populations: Ethics—Theory—Practice

One of Kohut’s main goals was to ensure the potential contribution of self psychology to the future history of human civilization, and to the ordinary people that constitute mankind. The revolutionary concept of the collective self of a group, and the empathic matrix of needed selfobjects for the psychic health and growth of nations and civilizations, are an inspiring platform for contemporary psychoanalytic thought concerning our ethical obligation for strengthening weakened populations, which suffer from various inflictions. At the same time, this ethical stance of self psychology provides us a profound opportunity to bridge, or even to dissolve, the artificial discrepancy between pure and applied psychoanalyses. Lod, a mixed Jewish–Arab town at the central part of Israel that has struggled for decades with ethnic–social–cultural problems, the city where the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity’s home and academic-therapeutic campus is presently being built, will serve as a test-case for applying self psychology as an encompassing web for the future growth of a developing population.

Why Kohut’s Ideas Will Endure: The Contributions of Self Psychology to the Treatment of Children and to the Practice of Psychotherapy

This article describes the contributions that self psychology has made to the treatment of children and to psychotherapy under various circumstances: in hospital settings and in cases when psychotherapy is combined with the use of psychotropic medication. The relevance of self psychology beyond psychoanalysis is related two of its fundamental aspects: the empathic listening perspective and the selfobject concept. A therapeutic failure of a hospitalized patient is offered as an example where these two aspects of self psychology were not utilized.

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers

(2011). Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers. International Journal of Group Psychotherapy: Vol. 61, The Village Well Revisited: Honoring Anne Alonso, pp. 319-323.

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers by Walter N. Stone (review)

Contributions of Self Psychology to Group Psychotherapy: Selected Papers by Walter N. Stone (review)

A View of the “Disengaged” Patient as Already Engaged

With the help of a detailed clinical example I offer a vantage point on the difficult-to-engage or disengaged patient, as already engaged. In developing my position I draw on contributions of attachment research bearing on avoidant/dismissive styles of attachment and salient contributions of self-psychology. I consider and illustrate the implications this viewpoint carries from a countertransferential perspective and for the analyst's therapeutic stance.

Empathy in psychiatric setting. the contribution of self psychology

Empathy in psychiatric setting. the contribution of self psychology

A Self Psychological Approach to Collaboration

Though self psychologists frequently treat clients who also require pharmacotherapy, the contributions of self psychology to our understanding of the collaborative process have not been formally addressed in the literature. The author presents an in-depth clinical illustration of how two self psychologists successfully collaborated in treating a severely bipolar woman. The case also demonstrates the importance of integrating depth psychological analytic understanding with clinical social work practice, and highlights the crucial role of the empathic vantage point in facilitating effective collaboration.

The patient's transference experience of the analyst's gender: Projection, factuality, interpretation, or construction

In this paper I reverse the more commonly posed question, how does the analyst's gender affect transference? Instead, I examine the implications of the analyst's view of the organization of transference in the analytic situation for understanding gender‐salient transference formation. I suggest that the analyst's viewpoint on the organization of transference is focal in his or her conception of gender‐linked transference themes. I demonstrate that even in the context of a shared theoretical outlook, variations in a one‐person psychology perspective on transference entail contradictory findings. I discuss a reformulation of transference, utilizing the contribution of self psychology. It demonstrates a combined one‐person, two‐person psychology view applied to the organization of a two‐dimensional transference. Gender‐specific, object‐related, and selfobject facets of the transference are codetermined by the patient's psychology and the current ongoing analyst‐patient interaction. I contrast conceptualizati...