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Chapter 12.Self Psychology

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The Self and Its Development | Kohut’s Theory of Adult Psychopathology: Disorders of the Self | Kohut’s Theory of Therapeutic Action: Mobilization of Selfobject Transferences | Comparison of Self Psychology With the Structural Model and Object Relations Theory | Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Kohut Versus Kernberg | Influence of Self Psychology on Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Other Conceptions of the Self: Contributions From Ego Psychology and Object Relations Theorists | The Study of the Self: Contributions From General Psychology and Neuroscience | The Self in the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind | Chapter Summary and Chart of Core Dimensions | References

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This chapter introduces Self Psychology. It explains how this model of the mind works and what it contributes to our understanding of psychopathology and treatment. Vocabulary introduced in this chapter includes the following: affect mirroring, alien self, core sense of self, disorder of the self, emergent sense of self, empathy, false self, grandiose self, idealized parental imago, idealized selfobject, idealizing transference, identity diffusion, mirror transference, mirroring selfobject, narcissism, narcissistic rage, narrative sense of self, pathological grandiose self, pathological narcissism, self, selfobject, selfobject transference, self–selfobject matrix, subjective sense of self, transitional object, transitional phenomena, true self, twinship transference, and verbal or categorical sense of self.

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