This tenth volume in the Progress in Self Psychology series covers some recent modifications and controversies in self psychology theory as well as clinical and other applications of the theory.

This book begins with four scholarly reassessments of the selfobject concept (Michael Basch, Crayton Rowe, Howard Bacal, Helen Gilbert). Basch offers some worthwhile recommendations for changes and corrections in Kohut's theory of selfobjects. In contrast to Kohut, who viewed the selfobject transferences as separate from one another, Basch believes they are on a continuum. What Kohut called the twinship, or alter ego, transference, Basch considers to be the earliest and most basic of the selfobjects. The need for twinship is the first to be met both in normal early development and in psychoanalysis. After this basic selfobject need