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Self Psychology in Depth - Amy Feld, PsyD (8807 words) |
 | The overstimulated self is predisposed to recurrent states of excessive emotion or excitement as a result of unempathically excessive or phase-inappropriate responses from the selfobjects of childhood (E.S. Wolf, 1988). |
| The primary psychological task, for self psychology, is the maintenance of the self, and the relationships between the self and selfobject are at the center of development from birth to death (Tolpin, 1986). |
| Self psychology stresses that transferences are not the client's confusion of the therapist as a parent, but the client's legitimate need for a new selfobject in the present to his needs for structure building (Elson, 1986). |
| What is Self Psychology (353 words) |
| Psychoanalytic self psychology is the theoretical school of Heinz Kohut, MD (1913-1981), and provides the theoretical basis for most of the therapeutic benefits of contemporary psychoanalysis. |
| While rejecting the primary importance of innate Freudian sexual drives in the organization of the human psyche, self psychology was the first major psychoanalytic movement in the United States to recognize the critical role of empathy in explaining human development and psychoanalytic change. |
| Psychoanalytic self psychology contributes to our understanding of a wide variety of topics in psychology and the social sciences, as well as philosophy, humanities and religion. |
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