The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut's Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

by Kathleen Kelley, Deborah Cher, Charles B Strozier, et al.

There are two foundational thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud and Heinz Kohut. Though Kohut is much less well known, he revolutionized psychoanalytic theory and the practice of psychotherapy. In a burst of creativity from the mid-1960s until his death in 1981, he reimagined the field in a way that made it open, mutual, relational, and inclusive. His conceptualization of a holistic self that is in an ongoing relationship with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197535224
• ISBN13: 9780197535226
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"