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| CONTENTS |
| | Contributors | | ix |
| | Introduction: Notes on the Integration, Reformation, and Development of Kohut's Contributions
Crayton E. Rowe, Jr. | | xiii |
| I FRUSTRATION AND RESPONSIVENESS |
| 1. | Optimal Frustration: An Endangered Concept
David S. MacIsaac | | 3 |
| 2. | The Psychoanalyst's Selfobject Needs and the Effect of Their Frustration on the Treatment: A New View of Countertransference
Howard A. Bacal and Peter G. Thomson | | 17 |
| 3. | Self Psychology in Search of the Optimal: A Consideration of Optimal Responsiveness; Optimal Provision; Optimal Gratification; and Optimal Restraint in the Clinical Situation
Morton Shane and Estelle Shane | | 37 |
| 4. | Notes on the Contributions of the Analyst's Self-Awareness to Optimal Responsiveness
Shelly R. Doctors | | 55 |
| II PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES |
| 5. | The Philosophical Importance of Kohut's Bipolar Theory of the Self
John H. Riker | | 67 |
| 6. | On the Existential/Subjectivism-Scientific/Objectivism Dialectic in Self Psychology: A View from Evolutionary Biology
Daniel Kriegman | | 85 |
| III CLINICAL |
| 7. | The Contribution of Self- and Mutual Regulation to Therapeutic Action: A Case Illustration
Frank M. Lachmann and Beatrice Beebe | | 123 |
| 8. | Countertransference and Curative Process with "Nondifficult" Patients
Martin S. Livingston | | 141 |
| 9. | Empathy in Broader Perspective: A Technical Approach to the Consequences of the Negative Selfobject in Early Character Formation
Mark J. Gehrie | | 159 |
| IV CHILD STUDIES |
| 10. | A Self-Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study
Ruth Banovitz Suth | | 183 |
| 11. | Discussion of "A Self-Psychological Approach to Child Therapy: A Case Study"
Morton Shane | | 201 |
| 12. | Flight from the Subjectivity of the Other: Pathological Adaptation to Childhood Parent Loss
George Hagman | | 207 |
| V APPLIED |
| 13. | A Self-Psychological Approach to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: A Paradigm to Integrate the biopsychosocial Model of Psychiatric Illness
Howard S. Baker and Margaret N. Baker | | 223 |
| 14. | Discussion of "A Self-Psychological Approach to Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: Model of Psychiatric Illness"
Joseph Palombo | | 243 |
| 15. | The Function of Early Selfobject Experiences in Gendered Representations of God
Lallene J. Rector | | 249 |
| 16. | The Severed Self: Gender as Trauma
Janice Crawford | | 269 |
| 17. | Self Psychology: A feminist Re-Visioning
Susan Pangerl | | 285 |
| | Author Index | | 299 |
| | Subject Index | | 303 |
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