The Negative Selfobject

David M. Terman, M.D., is a past Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis where he had been a Training and Supervising Analyst for the over 40 years. Dr. Terman had his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Chicago and his psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has contributed to several central aspects of clinical and developmental theory of self psychology. He reconceptualized the Oedipus complex in self psychological terms, and he was one of the first to note the importance of positive experience in forming psychological structure in development. He has also explored the history of anti-Semitism from a self psychological perspective, and he has coauthored and edited a book with Charles Strozier and James Jones  on the psychology of fundamentalism and other political and social forces, The Fundamentalist Mindset (Oxford University Press: 2010). He has applied his work on paranoia to an understanding of some of the features of classic  psychoanalytic theory. He is now retired from clincial practice but continues to teach, supervise, and write  on selected theoretical issues and in the area of applied psychoanalysis.
CONTACT David M. Terman 1420 Sheridan Rd, Wilmette, IL 60091.