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Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 1991
This paper evaluates Kohut's selfobject concept by reviewing the historical context of its origin and the gradual substitution of an emphasis on experience for the ego psychological emphasis on function. When viewed as a dimension of experience, a selfobject experience has the affective quality of vitalization.
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This paper evaluates Kohut's selfobject concept by reviewing the historical context of its origin and the gradual substitution of an emphasis on experience for the ego psychological emphasis on function. When viewed as a dimension of experience, a selfobject experience has the affective quality of vitalization.
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Selfobject Transferences in Supervision
The Clinical Supervisor, 1995Selfobject transferences are one of the valuable aditions of Heinz Kohut's theory to psychodynamic clinical practice. This paper endeavors to apply selfobject transferences to the supervisory process. Supervisor and supervisee are both seen as capable of having selfobject transferences. Implication for the supervisory relationship are explored based on
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Companion Animals as Selfobjects
Anthrozoös, 2007ABSTRACTThis research examined whether self psychology could be systematically applied to human–animal relationships. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted, which consisted of 16 questions designed to illuminate selfobject needs. The interviews were intended to identify whether the horse/dog/cat/rabbit was a selfobject, that is, a ...
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The Selfobject Functions of the Koran
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 1997This article applies Kohut's theory of selfobjects to explore someof the psychological functions of religions in the development and maintenance of the self. Specifically, this article examines one religion, Islam, and its symbol in scripture, the Koran. Aspects of the Koran such as its sacred language, its memorization, its recitation, and some of its
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The Group as Selfobject: Brief Psychotherapy with Women
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2000This article applies the theory of self psychology, which was developed by Heinz Kohut, to brief group psychotherapy. The article discusses the significance of the group as an expanded selfobject for individuals who do not have appropriate, available selfobjects in their environment.
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Notes on the Concepts of Selfobject and Preoedipal Object
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1981Kohut's (1979) paper, "The two analyses of Mr. Z.," is used to highlight difficulties in the maintenance of an analytic attitude toward certain preoedipal conflicts. It is suggested that two separate and distinct issues are confused in the concept of selfobject: the subject's needs for the object and the status of the object as not separate and ...
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009
The intersubjective field concept is a doorway to a dialogical sensibility. A dialogical attitude recognizes just how thoroughly and intimately any effort to understand another implicates both parties in the dialogue. The therapist's task is to engage in a dialogue that stands the greatest chance of enabling the therapist to understand how our patients’
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The intersubjective field concept is a doorway to a dialogical sensibility. A dialogical attitude recognizes just how thoroughly and intimately any effort to understand another implicates both parties in the dialogue. The therapist's task is to engage in a dialogue that stands the greatest chance of enabling the therapist to understand how our patients’
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The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects
2023Spa Night (2016) and Driveways (2019) focus on queer Asian American youth. Growing up in Koreatown in Los Angeles, a young Korean American man is disenfranchised from the narrative of the Asian American model minority. To resolve the disconnection that results from psychic fragmentation, he explores his sexuality in an iconic site of queer ...
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NARCISSISTIC DEPRIVATION AND THE ANTI‐SELFOBJECT
British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1998ABSTRACT The paper explores damaged self‐feelings and low narcissistic investment in the self, and presents material and argument to show that interactions with a certain type of caretaker are crucially involved. The damaging object here is termed, elaborating a concept of Kohut's (1971), the ‘anti‐selfobject’.
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Selfobject as Dramatis Personae
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009This chapter discusses the influence of drama in the author's background in conceptualizing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The history of ideas relevant to a dramaturgical analysis from Freud to Kohut's revolution, with additional modifications by relational psychoanalysis, is explored.
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