Heinz Kohut

The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behaviour and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy to shed light on human behaviour. In How Does Analysis Cure? Kohut presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology and carefully lays out how the...

Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel according to many mainstream psychoanalysts, Kohut challenged Freudian orthodoxy and the medical control of psychoanalysis in America. In his highly influential book The Analysis of the Self, Kohut established the industry standard for the treatment of personality disorders for a generation of analysts....