Heinz Kohut

Heinz Kohut (3 May 1913 – 8 October 1981) was an Austrian-born American psychoanalyst best known for his development of self psychology, an influential school of thought within psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory which helped transform the modern practice of analytic and dynamic treatment approaches. Quotations Forms and Transformation of Narcissism (1966) "The self in the psychoanalytic sense is variable and by no means coextensive with the limits of the personality as assessed by an observer of the social field." - Page 4 "States the self may expand far beyond the borders of the individual, or it may shrink and become identical with a single one of his actions or aims." - Page 4 "The antithesis to narcissism is not the object relation but object love." - Page 4 "The antithesis to narcissism is not the object relation but object love." - Page 4 "The creative individual, whether in art or science, is less psychologically separated from his surroundings than the non-creative one; the "I-you" barrier is not as clearly defined." - Page 17 External links Author:Heinz Kohut International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Heinz Kohut Forms and Transformation of Narcissism. Category:Academics from Austria Category:Jews from Austria Category:Non-fiction authors from Austria Category:Psychiatrists from Austria Category:Psychoanalysts Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:1913 births Category:1981 deaths Category:People from Vienna