Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut (3 May 1913 – 8 October 1981) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches.

Quotations

Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966)

• "The self in the psychoanalytic sense is variable and by no means coextensive with the limits of the personality as assessed by an observer of the social field."

- Page 4

• "States the self may expand far beyond the borders of the individual, or it may shrink and become identical with a single one of his actions or aims."

- Page 4

• "The antithesis to narcissism is not the object relation but object love."

- Page 4

• "The antithesis to narcissism is not the object relation but object love."

- Page 4

• "The creative individual, whether in art or science, is less psychologically separated from his surroundings than the non-creative one; the "I-you" barrier is not as clearly defined."

- Page 17

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Heinz Kohut on Wikipedia
• Works related to Author:Heinz Kohut on Wikisource
• Media related to Heinz Kohut on Wikimedia Commons
• International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology
• Heinz Kohut Forms and Transformation of Narcissism.