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Progress in Self Psychology
Volume 12:
Basic Ideas Reconsidered

Arnold Goldberg, Editor

THE ANALYTIC PRESS
1996 · Hillsdale, NJ · London

 
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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