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Many experts have linked perverse sexual behavior-from mild variations on heterosexual activity to fetishism to cross-dressing-to sexual and/or aggressive conflicts in childhood. In this book, Dr. Arnold Goldberg explains and interprets perverse behavior in a different way, by drawing on concepts of psychoanalytic self psychology that, says Dr. Goldberg, make disorders of perversion more understandable and more accessible to treatment.

The book,Psychology of The Self (1978), and the movement of the Psychology of the Self are criticized as having degenerated into a kind of cult that basically rejects all former and contemporary psychoanalytic contributions. The end product is that many patients are incorrectly diagnosed as “narcissistic character disorders” and then treated by the same method, emphasizing the patient's need for an empathic self-object. Even the “cures” reported seem to put the patient in a schizoid and narcissistic position in which object relations that involve real attachments to another person are minimized. Instead of changing people from narcissistic to object-related, the reverse appears to occur. The Psychology of the A Casebook was written with the collaboration of Heinz Kohut, M.D., edited by Arnold Goldberg, M.D. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy Look Inside Share this content on Facebook Share this content on Twitter Share this content on LinkedIn Other actions Export citations Register for Journal Updates About This Journal Reprints and Permissions

A special section of papers on the evolution, current status, and future development of self psychology highlights The Evolution of Self Psychology , volume 7 of the Progress in Self Psychology series. A critical review of recent books by Basch, Goldberg, and Stolorow et al. is part of this endeavor. Theoretical contributions to Volume 7 examine self psychology in relation to object relations theory and reconsider the relationship of psychotherapy to psychoanalysis. Clinical contributions deal with an intersubjective perspective on countertransference, the trauma of incest, and envy in the transference.

The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology. In this book, he presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology and carefully lays out how the self develops over the course of time. It is suitable for working psychoanalysts.