Psychology of the self and the treatment of narcissism
1. narcissistic and borderline personality disorder 2. narcissism in our culture 3. freud and his follower 4. melanie klein and early object relations rheory 5. kernberg and modern object relations theory 6. defniition of the self 7. self and object: fairbairn, winnicott, balint, and R.D. laing 8. Kohut's first version of the psychology of the self 9. kohut in transition 10. kohut's second version fo the psychology of the self 11. kohut's special clinical observations and classifications 12. kohut's clinical case presentations 13. case presented by kohut's folowers 14. psychology of the self in psychoanalytic psychotherapy 15. some tentative clinical applications 16. narcissistic psychosomatic disorders 17. kohut and continental psychiatry and psychoanalysis 18 empathy 19 criticism 20 final considerations.