| Abstract: | Contends that since Kohut's death, a new generation of self psychologists continues to push forward into the areas he pioneered. In Structures of Subjectivity, Atwood and Stolorow offer a valuable new perspective within this psychoanalytic movement. They present their perspective in the form of a well-organized, comprehensive framework that speaks to the fundamental issues of psychoanalytic psychology--personality, development, psychopathology, and clinical theory and technique. The foundation for this psychological framework consists of the intriguing concepts of "structures of experience" and "intersubjectivity." At the heart of Structures of Subjectivity lies an epistemological dilemma about the nature of psychoanalytic phenomenology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
