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| CONTENTS |
| | Contributors | | iv |
| | Forward | | vii |
| I PROGRESS IN THEORY |
| 1. | Further Thoughts on Empathic Understanding Michael Franz Basch | | 3 |
| 2. | Transference: Truth and Consequences Robert J. Leider | | 11 |
| 3. | Rethinking the Scope of the Patient's Transference and the Therapist's Countertransference Joseph D. Lichtenberg | | 23 |
| 4. | The World According to Whom? Robert D. Stolorow | | 35 |
| 5. | Selfobject Transferences and the Process of Working Through Anna Ornstein | | 41 |
| 6. | On Some Challenges to Clinical Theory in the Treatment of Character Pathology Frank M. Lachmann | | 59 |
| 7. | The Fragile Spielraum: An Approach to Transmuting Internalization Russell Meares | | 69 |
| II PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT |
| 8. | The Selfobjects of the Second Half of Life: An Introduction Robert M. Galatzer-Levy and Bertram J. Cohler | | 93 |
| III PROGRESS IN THE APPROACH TO PSYCHOPATHOLOGY |
| 9. | The Origins of Ambition Prudence Leib | | 113 |
| 10. | The Addictive Personality and "Addictive Trigger Mechanisms" (ATMs): The Self Psychology of Addition and Its Treatment Richard Barrett and Harry Paul | | 129 |
| 11. | AIDS Attacks the Self: A Self-Psychological Exploration on the Psychodynamic Consequences of AIDS Jeffrey Cohen and Sharone Abramowitz | | 157 |
| IV PROGRESS IN THE APPLICATION OF SELF PSYCHOLOGY |
| 12. | The Precursor as Mentor, The Therapist as Muse: Creativity and Selfobject Phenomena R.G.K. Kainer | | 175 |
| 13. | Vincent van Gogh: Selfobject Factors in Motivating, Facilitating, and Inhibiting Creativity Howard S. Baker | | 189 |
| 14. | On the Resistance to Self Psychology: Clues from Evolutionary Biology Daniel Kriegman and Malcolm Owen Slavin | | 217 |
| | Author Index | | 251 |
| | Subject Index | | 255 |
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