The Restoration of the Self

A trailblazing book on the theory of self-psychology from the one-time president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In his foundational work The Restoration of the Self , noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called “the limits of classical analytic theory” and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as