Books like Self psychology and the humanities by Heinz Kohut

Faculty-level textbook covering cognitive psychology through case studies and applied examples.

A history of medical psychology for those new to the field, focusing on the development and understanding of medical psychology as a discipline.

Heinz Kohut’s *The Analysis of the Self* introduces a novel psychoanalytic framework for treating personality disorders, especially narcissism, reshaping twentieth-century therapy and influencing both scholars and practitioners.

In his foundational work *The Restoration of the Self*, noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as the role of narcissism in personality, when a patient can be considered cured, and the oversimplifications and social biases that unduly influenced Freudian thought. This volume puts forth some of Kohut’s most influential ideas on achieving emotional health through a balanced, creative, and joyful sense of self. "Kohut speaks clearly from his identity as a psychoanalyst-healer, showing that he is more of a psychoanalyst than most, and yet calling for major theoretical revisions including a redefinition of the essence of psychoanalysis.”—*American Journal of Psychotherapy* [[University of Chicago Press][1]] [1]: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo8324789.html

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 healthy and unhealthy cases of Oedipal complexes and narcissism, while investigating the nature of analysis itself as treatment 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 important work 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. [[University of Chicago Press][1]] [1]: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3627988.html