What is the intersubjective field? Through the lens of intersubjectivity, we understand that our own subjectivity is a part of the patient’s world, and the interplay of the two subjectivities becomes the focus of empathic and sensitive exploration. No longer a one-person intrapsychic psychology, we are now exploring the field created by two...
Read MoreThe Selfobject Transferences – October 9, 2015
Is there a concept more central to Kohut’s Self Psychology than the selfobject transference? Hard to imagine. The notion of the selfobject transference revolutionized our understanding of transference, turning our focus from interpretation of distortion and displacement to facilitation of renewed development. Working from an empathic perspective,...
Read MoreIntersubjective Self Psychology I: Empathy – More Than Just Kindness – September 25, 2015
Empathy at the center of self psychological treatment? Revolutionary! Intersubjective Self Psychologists aspire to understand the patient from within her or his own world. When we do this things begin to make sense and we can understand motivations and resistances, interpersonal problems and symptoms in a way that can more deeply reach our patients; the...
Read MoreIntegrating the Irrationality of Wide-Scale Trauma: Results of a Self-Psychological Research Study – September 18, 2015
What does your involvement in trauma mean to you? Do you think it was somehow “meant to be?” For some survivors, the meaning of trauma centers around its irrationality or absurdity. Please join Koichi Togashi and me in a discussion of these aspects of trauma. We’d like to tell you about our self-psychological study of survivors of the 9-11 terrorist...
Read MoreKohut’s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human by Koichi Togashi and Amanda Kottler
At the end of his life, Kohut articulated the twinship experience, which has become a cornerstone of self psychology. But, I believe, it has been insufficiently conceptualized. In Kohut’s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human, Amanda Kottler and I reflect on the twinship experience and develop it further. Picking up where Kohut...
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