Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis of the Self, Kohut established the industry standard of the treatment of personality disorders for a generation of analysts. This volume, best known for its groundbreaking analysis of narcissism, is essential reading for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand human personality in its many incarnations. Kohut has done for narcissism what the novelist Charles Dickens did for poverty in the nineteenth century. Everyone always knew that both existed and were a problem.... The undoubted originality is to have put it together in a form which carries appeal to action.

A supplementary text for undergraduate courses in personality and abnormal psychology, providing a systematic introduction to personality theory and personality disorders. Focus is on disorders new to DSM-III. Case studies, summary charts and review questions highlight important concepts.

Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin shows the reader the heartrending and hope-filled stories of emotionally disturbed children as they struggle to make it through each day. To his two classic stories in the literature of psychology, Lisa and David and Jordi, Dr.. Rubin has now added Little Ralphie and the Creature. together they demonstrate the power of love and its ability to heal. Meet these four extraordinary young people as they search for a place and time in the world where is it safe to be themselves. David: Extremely intelligent, with extraordinary abilities in math, physics, and chess. He is passionately interested in clocks. he cannot bear to be touched, in petrified of germs and human contact. Suffers overwhelming panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Lisa: Schizophrenic who must constantly speak in singsong rhymes to avoid losing herself to Muriel--her moody, brooding, scowling, silent other self. Jordi: Schizophrenic, with autistic tendencies. He's afraid of garbage cans, all garbage cans, because he believes them to be ears. Ears that will hear him. Only his "jiggler"--a doorknob tied to a long string--can offer him an comfort or protection. Little Ralphie: Actue schizophrenic reaction--catatonic type. Ralphie hides in alternate realties to escape his unbearable pain.

Volume 2 wrestles with two questions that remain timely in the present: (1) whether self psychology can be integrated with classical psychoanalysis (H. Curtis, M. Basch), and (2) whether self psychology actually differs in practice from classical psychoanalysis (R. Wallerstein, E. Wolf). Discussions by E. Markson & P. Thomson, R. Stolorow, P. Tolpin, and J. Levy bring different perspectives to bear on these knotty issues. The implications of self psychology for our understanding of infant and adolescent development are explored, respectively, by M. Tolpin and M. & E. Shane. Additional contributions span the topics of supervision (J. Sloane), somatization (W. Rickles), and suicide (D. Reiser), and include theoretical papers by B. Brandchaft, R. Stolorow, H. Muslin, and D. Detrick.