Self-portrait by David Gordon Whittaker, with color-aid paper and old magazines Source: David Gordon Whittaker/CCommons Self psychology, pioneered by Heinz Kohut in the 1970s, is a school of ...

Narcissism is a healthy and natural part of psychological development throughout one’s lifetime. This was an innovative idea when psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut first presented it in his monograph The ...

Throughout their academic careers Carl Rogers and Heinz Kohut developed two contrasting definitions of empathy that influenced the ways in which both men sought to help their clients cope with ...

Developments in psychoanalysis are, appropriately, often the products of half-discovered impulses and longings, so it's fitting that Kohut's The Analysis of the Self, which essentially invented and ...