Treating the Self : Elements of Clinical Self Psychology

PART I. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SELF Introduction: Historical Development 3(6) General Orientation: The Inner Life of Man 9(14) An Overview 10(1) Experiencing the Self 11(5) General Comments on the Role of Theory 16(1) Psychoanalytic Data 17(2) Dissenting Views of the Analytic Process 19(4) Basic Concepts of Self Psychology 23(27) Introduction 23(5) The Dependence on a Selfobject Matrix 28(2) The Clinical Origin of Self Psychology 30(1) The Bipolar Self 31(1) How Self Psychology Has Modified Classical Psychoanalysis 31(15) Origins of Self Psychology 46(4) Selfs and Selfobjects 50(15) Self Structure 50(4) Selfobject Experiences 54(9) Summary 63(2) Selfobject Relations Disorders: Disorders of the Self 65(12) Definition 65(1) Etiology 65(2) Classification 67(3) Psychopathology (Self States) 70(2) Characterology (Behavioral Patterns) 72(2) Acting Out 74(1) Limitations of Classifications 75(2) Narcissistic Rage 77(10) Rage in Individuals 77(5) The Rage of Groups 82(5) PART II. TREATMENT The Setting 87(7) Situation, Ambience, and Process 87(2) Values 89(5) Principles 94(8) Undoing the Effects of Injury to the Self 94(3) Neutrality and Abstinence 97(2) Interventions 99(3) The Therapeutic Process 102(22) Aims 102(5) Success or Failure? 107(1) Treatment Process 108(2) The Disruption--Restoration Process 110(8) Regressions 118(3) Further Comments on Treatment Ambience 121(3) Selfobject Transferences 124(12) Types 124(2) Technical Aspects of Mirroring 126(5) The Use and Misuse of Mirroring 131(5) Countertransference Issues 136(10) The Analysand's Fears 136(1) The Analyst's Fears 137(2) Classification 139(7) Analytic Reality 146(20) Ostensive and Descriptive Knowledge 146(4) Discrepancies in Experience of Reality 150(7) Reality or Illusion: A Reexamination of Kris's Concept of the ``Personal Myth'' 157(9) Termination 166(5) References 171(6) Appendix I. Medications 177(2) Appendix II. Third-Party Relations 179(2) Glossary of Self Psychology Terms 181(8) Index 189