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The Selfobject in the Age of Technology

Clinical Social Work Journal, 2005
The author considers self-psychology concepts including the selfobject and influences on self-esteem in the observation and exploration of the significance patients assigned to their cellular telephones, computers, and other electronic communication devices.
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The Selfobject Transferences

2022
Abstract The concept of the selfobject is central to Heinz Kohut’s psychology of self. The term, however, often obscures its intended meaning. In the introduction to this chapter, the term selfobject is reviewed and contrasted with other analytic uses of the term object.
Charles B. Strozier   +3 more
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THE RESTORATION OF THE SELFOBJECT

Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 2018
Heinz Kohut insisted that, strictly speaking, the selfobject was an experience provided by the analyst’s function, not a person.
Barry Magid, ESTELLE SHANE
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Korean Self and Selfobject

Theology and Praxis, 2021
In this study, I critically apply theories of Kohut’s self psychology concerning self-selfobject relationships to the Korean uri culture, and refine them by integrating Korean psychological constructs into his frameworks. Kohut claims that the psychology of the self in the broad sense can offer a fuller explanation than the psychology of the self in ...
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The selfobject as immortal self

Journal of Religion and Health, 1994
This paper begins by defining the selfobject and elucidating its role in the structuring of the self for each unique individual. The self becomes a repository of the memory images of emotional experiences with significant others. This process of internalization through which the self is continually nourished, and which enables it to grow, goes on ...
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Extending Kohut’s Concept of Selfobject: The Undifferentiated Selfobject

Clinical Social Work Journal, 2011
This paper highlights and adds to the understanding of the undifferentiated selfobject, an extension of Kohut’s contributions of mirror, twinship and idealizing selfobjects. Introduced by Rowe in (2005), the undifferentiated selfobject follows Kohut’s teaching that there are still selfobjects that have not been discovered and which, therefore, have ...
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Emptiness, Equanimity, and the Selfobject Function

Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2020
The article draws links between the selfobject function and two major Buddhist concepts, emptiness and equanimity.
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An Infant’s Experience as a Selfobject

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1999
Exploration of the clinical literature shows an awareness that an infant's experience as a selfobject often is traumatic, but if there is an experience of mutuality, the trauma might be avoided. Where such mutuality does not occur, an infant's experience of constantly repairing a depressed parent, or of being blamed, abused or having an identity ...
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The Reverse Selfobject Experience

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1988
A reverse selfobject experience occurs when an infant functions as a selfobject for the mother. While reverse selfobject experiences are a part of healthy development, excessive experiences (a) traumatize the infant, (b) contribute to a pathological grandiose self, and (c) lead to severe treatment resistance in the early stages of psychotherapy.
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The therapist as selfobject

Clinical Social Work Journal, 1996
In the treatment of severely disturbed patients in private practice, the author discovered that a shift from a traditional analytic approach to one that utilized self-psychological concepts produced improved success in the outcomes of treatment. These patients included those with narcissistic and borderline pathology in addition to substance abuse. All
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