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Nathan Schwartz-Salant makes use of the best findings of all depth psychological schools. He is a Jungian who aims at an integrative vision. As a Jungian his emphasis is firmly on archetypal psychology. Yet he is drawn to traditional psychoanalytic work as well as to the more recent emphasis on object relations and self. He brings these viewpoints together in ways which genuinely heighten our sense of how they complement each other. Dr. Schwartz-Salant's work exemplifies how the cross-fertilization between disciplines is a crucial path of creativity.
As an astute clinician he soon found that orthodox Jungian analysis did not work with narcissistic character disorders. He was led to take up transference-countertransference work and the object relational framework this implies. Yet, his Jungian commitment allowed him to see more in the Self than Freudian/Kleinian/Kohutian frameworks mirror. The result is a striking contribution to clinical phenomenology.
I was struck by his grasp of the negative narcissistic transferences, his emphasis on the clinical realities of envy, rage, panic, and his ability to see through to the core of vulnerability and pain. Implicit is his determination to stay with the psychic reality of the moment and go where this leads. His particular vision of wholeness tends to assert itself through his various therapeutic struggles. His psychology is one of enlightened optimism, an expression of therapeutic faith based on solid evidence.
A notable triumph is his situating Kernberg's and Kohut's views within the context of the development of the Narcissus myth at various phases of its