The Progress in Self Psychology, V. 17: The Narcissistic Patient Revisited

Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, __The Narcissistic Patient Revisited__, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. Taken together, Hazel Ipp's richly textured "Case of Gayle" and the commentaries that it elicits amount to a searching reexamination of narcissistic pathology and the therapeutic process. This illuminating reprise on the clinical phenomenology Kohut associated with "narcissistic personality disorder" accounts for the volume title. The ability of modern self psychology to integrate central concepts from other theories gains expression in Teicholz's proposal for a two-tiered theory of intersubjectivity, in Brownlow's examination of the fear of intimacy, and in Garfield's model for the treatment of psychosis. The social relevance of self psychology comes to the fore in an examination of the experience of adopted children and an inquiry into the roots of mystical experience, both of which concern the ubiquity of the human longing for an idealized parent imago. Among contributions that bring self-psychological ideas to bear on the arts, Frank Lachmann's provocative "Words and Music," which links the history of music to the history of psychoanalytic thought in the quest for universal substrata of psychological experience, deserves special mention. Annette Lachmann's consideration of empathic failure among the characters in Shakespeare's __Othello__ and Silverstein's reflections on Schubert's self-states and selfobject needs in relation to the specific poems set to music in his Lieder round out a collection as richly broad based as the field of self psychology itself.

Volume 17 of Progress in Self Psychology, The Narcissistic Patient Revisited, begins with the next installment of Strozier's "From the Kohut Archives": first publication of a fragment by Kohut on social class and self-formation and of four letters from his final decade. Taken together, Hazel Ipp's richly textured "Case of Gayle" and the commentaries that it elicits amount to a searching reexamination of narcissistic pathology and the therapeutic process. This illuminating reprise on the clinical phenomenology Kohut associated with "narcissistic personality disorder" accounts for the volume title. The ability of modern self psychology to integrate central concepts from other theories gains expression in Teicholz's proposal for a two-tiered theory of intersubjectivity, in Brownlow's examination of the fear of intimacy, and in Garfield's model for the treatment of psychosis. The social relevance of self psychology comes to the fore in an examination of the experience of adopted children and an inquiry into the roots of mystical experience, both of which concern the ubiquity of the human longing for an idealized parent imago. Among contributions that bring self-psychological ideas to bear on the arts, Frank Lachmann's provocative "Words and Music," which links the history of music to the history of psychoanalytic thought in the quest for universal substrata of psychological experience, deserves special mention. Annette Lachmann's consideration of empathic failure among the characters in Shakespeare's Othello and Silverstein's reflections on Schubert's self-states and selfobject needs in relation to the specific poems set to music in his Lieder round out a collection as richly broad based as the field of self psychology itself.

Machine generated contents note: 1.From the Kohut Archives Charles B.Strozier 1 I THEORY 2.The Many Meanings of Intersubjectivity and Their Implications for Analyst Self-Expression and Self-Disclosure Judith Guss Teicholz 9 II CLINICAL The Case of Gayle and Discussions: Introduction James M.Fisch 45 3.The Case of Gayle Hazel R.Ipp 47 4.Straddling Two Revolutions: A Discussion of Hazel Ipp's Clinical Case Philip A.Ringstrom 57 5.Clinical Notes on the Self-Psychological/Intersubjective "Contextualization of Narcissism": A Discussion of Hazel Ipp's Clinical Case Shelley R.Doctors 65 6.A Self Less Divided: A Discussion of Hazel Ipp's Clinical Case James M.Fisch 73 7.Nonverbal Implicit Dimensions of Interaction: A Discussion of Hazel Ipp's Clinical Case Steven H.Knoblauch 79 8.Reply to the Discussions Hazel R.Ipp 87 9.The Fear of Intimacy: The Clinical Application of Three Developmental Theories, Attachment, Motivational Systems, and Intersubjectivity Allison Brownlow 91 10.The Use of Vitality Affects in the Coalescence of Self in Psychosis David A.S.Garfield 113 11.Adoption and the Enduring Fantasy of an Idealized Other Allen M.Siegel and Renee N.Siegel 129 12.Discussion of Siegel and Siegel's "Adoption and the Enduring Fantasy of an Idealized Other" Susan M.Fisher 149 III APPLIED 13.The Theme of Cuckoldry in Othello Annette Lachmann 159 14.Words and Music Frank M.Lachmann 167 15.Mystical Experience as an Expression of the Idealizing Selfobject Need Lallene J.Rector 179 16.Selfobject Functions, Self States, and Intimate Forms of Musical Composition: Influences from Literary Texts on the Art Song Marshall L.Siluerstein 197. Volume 10 begins with four timely reassessments of the selfobject concept (M. Basch, C. Rowe, H. Bacal, H. Gilbert), followed by a section of clinical papers covering homosexuality (R. Shelby), alter ego countertransference (D. Brothers), hypnosis (M. Ne