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Self psychology
About: Self psychology is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1134 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43546 citations.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzes the way coping processes restore self-regard rather than the way they address the provoking threat itself, focusing on the way people cope with the implications of threat to their self-reward.
Abstract: Publisher Summary Self-affirmation processes are being activated by information that threatens the perceived adequacy or integrity of the self and as running their course until this perception is restored through explanation, rationalization, and/or action. The purpose of these constant explanations (and rationalizations) is to maintain a phenomenal experience of the self-self-conceptions and images as adaptively and morally adequate—that is, as competent, good, coherent, unitary, stable, capable of free choice, capable of controlling important outcomes, and so on. The research reported in this chapter focuses on the way people cope with the implications of threat to their self-regard rather than on the way they cope with the threat itself. This chapter analyzes the way coping processes restore self-regard rather than the way they address the provoking threat itself.
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07 May 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the subjective experience of infants and discuss the four senses of self: the sense of an emergent self, the self-awareness of a core self, self versus other, self with other, and the self awareness of a subjective self.
Abstract: The Questions And Their Background Exploring the Infants Subjective Experience: A Central Role for the Sense of Self Perspectives and Approaches to Infancy The Four Senses Of Self The Sense of an Emergent Self The Sense of a Core Self: I, Self versus Other The Sense of a Core Self II, Self with Other The Sense of a Subjective Self: I, Overview The Sense of a Subjective Self: II, Affect Attunement The Sense of a Verbal Self Some Clinical Implications The Observed Infant as Seen with a Clinical Eye Some Implications for the Theories Behind Therapeutic Reconstructions Implications for the Therapeutic Process of Reconstructing a Developmental Past Epilogue.
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15 Jun 1984
TL;DR: The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy to shed light on human behavior as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behavior and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy in order to shed light on human behavior. In "How Does Analysis Cure?" Kohut presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology and carefully lays out how the self develops over the course of time. Kohut also specifically defines mental health and mental illness in relation to the Ocdipus complex and narcissism, while investigating the nature of analysis itself as treatment and cure for pathologies. This in-depth examination of "the talking cure" explores the lesser-studied phenomena of psychoanalysis, including when it is beneficial for analyses to be left unfinished, and the changing definition of "normal." An essential volume for working psychoanalysts, this book is important not only for psychologists, but also for anyone interested in the complex inner workings of the human psyche.
1,956 citations