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Original Papers and Reprints

Original Papers
Words and
Music
 | To celebrate the 24th annual conference we have a special paper presented
with the simultaneous publication of this paper online and in Progress in
Self Psychology. Frank Lachmann's 1999 Kohut Memorial Lecture is now available here,
complete with audio clips. We are proud to bring this magnificent
paper to readers around the globe in the original format requested by the
author, with all of the audio clips available on-demand within the context
of the essay. |
September 11, 2001
 | Can self psychology help us understand the experience? Four
essays exploring trauma, the motivations of "terrorists",
the effects of the tragedy on flight attendants and the global, affective
impact of 9/11. [Two additional essays added February 2002.] |
Discussion of Janice Gump's Social Reality as an Aspect of Subjectivity
 | Published here on his 80th birthday,
February 23, 2001, Ernest Wolf delivered this discussion at the
meeting to celebrate J.D. Lichtenberg’s 75th birthday October
21, 2000 in Washington, D.C. |
Restoring the ‘Self’ and the ‘Harlot by the Side of the Road’: A
Self-Psychological Analysis of the Story of Tamar
 | Gila Safran-Naveh's complete essay
from her 1999 annual conference presentation |
Poets to Come: Walt Whitman, Self Psychology & the Readers of the Future
 | Donald Palladino's poetic essay
on Whitman's selfobject needs |
Mutually Mutative Moments in the Psychoanalytic Experience
 | Delivered in Dreieich, Germany, 1999, by Ernest Wolf and printed here
for the first time in honor of the 22nd Conference in Toronto |
Was meint Heinz Kohut, wenn er vom „Selbst" spricht? (What Does Heinz
Kohut Mean by the „Self"?)
 | A philosophical essay by Rudolf Süsske, in German
with English translation |
My Current View of the Psychoanalytic Process
 | Complete
and expanded text of Paul Ornstein's presentation at 21st
Annual Conference on the Psychology of the Self, San Diego, California,
October 1998 |

Reprints
Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
 | Read the Preface
to Charles Strozier's comprehensive biography of Heinz Kohut. |
The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring
Trauma
The Chicago Institute Lectures
 | Read the complete text of the Preface
and Lecture 1: Perversions
of Heinz Kohut's Chicago Institute Lectures, edited by Paul
Tolpin and Marian Tolpin (courtesy of The Analytic Press). |
Talking with Patients -- A Self Psychological View
 | A Tale of Two Theories
- Balancing clinical intuition with techniques based on self psychology is
the subject of Sandy Shapiro's book. You can read chapter
one, A Tale of Two Theories, here. |
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