Using Self Psychology in Psychotherapy

By Helene Jackson

Book Overview

Self psychology offers a new perception of how pathology develops. It emerges, not from intrapsychic conflict, but from the pervasive absence of empathically responsive selfobject in the child's inner and outer world. The goal of this book is to familiarize mental health professionals with this new approach to human behavior and demonstrate its implications for treatment in various stages of development and in a broad range of situations. Mental health professionals who are familiar with the concepts of self psychology will find this book useful in expanding their treatment ideas. For those who are unfamiliar with self psychology, this material will provide new, different, exciting, and effective ways of thinking about patients and intervening in the treatment relationship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876686218
• ISBN13: 9780876686218
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.1" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

This book is a treasure and every mental health professional should have it.

useful intro....

....to Kohut and self-psychology. The subject of rage, which self psychology has a habit of avoiding, is described in some of these essays, and particularly the one by Jayne Patrick. Theoretical, developmental, and clinical applications are brought forth in several very clear papers and essays.