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With many thanks to The Analytic Press, we are proud to offer the complete text of the Preface and Lecture 1: Perversions of Heinz Kohut's The Chicago Institute Lectures (published 1996), edited by Paul Tolpin and Marian Tolpin.
From The Analytic Press website:
Delivered to advanced candidates at The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1974-75, The Chicago Institute Lectures reveal a Kohut in transition, a Kohut wrestling with the creative tension in psychoanalysis between tradition and innovation, between continuity and change, even as he worked toward the psychology of the self "in the broad sense" that marked his decisive break from traditional psychoanalytic thought. Lightly edited by the Tolpins to preserve their authenticity, these lectures preserve the voice, the intellectual style, and the pedagogical bearing of a gifted creator in the very midst of creation.
"Kohut at his best! Kohut was particularly lively and clear when challenged by questions and when lecturing. The Tolpins have done us a great service in bringing together Kohut's thinking at a time when he was in the midst of some of his most important work. The Chicago Institute Lectures clarify important aspects of Kohut's thinking and allow the reader important new understandings regarding both development of the self and techniques for working with disorders of the self."
Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D., University of Chicago
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