The Analysis of the Self

“A major achievement,” this monograph on treating NPD “shows . . . a high level of integration of clinical experience and theoretical sophistication” ( Psychoanalytic Quarterly ). 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