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This volume, edited by the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, consists of 20 compelling articles organized under the general headings of psychoanalytic history, psychoanalysis and philosophy, clinical theory, clinical psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic education, and applications of psychoanalytic theory in other areas.
Among the articles of special interest to practitioners and students of modern psychoanalysis is “On Narcissism: Beyond the Introduction, Highlights of Heinz Kohut's Contributions to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders” by Paul H. Ornstein.
[Kohut's theories] have helped us to delineate a new clinical entity from the entire mixed group of narcissistic disorders and have also clarified the metapsychology and the unanalyzability of the remaining borderline and psychotic conditions … Kohut's method leads to an expansion of the psychoanalytic method without involving the use of parameters. This gives us a more secure “analytic base” from which we can extrapolate theory and technique to the treatment of borderline and psychotic conditions more usefully than it had been possible to do in the reverse direction. In addition, we now have enough compelling analytic clinical data that necessitate a revision of the classical paradigm to incorporate Kohut's findings into what might well turn out to be a contribution toward a unified theory of the psychoanalytic treatment process [p. 147].