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This article seeks to help clinicians make the translation from theory to practice when using self psychology to do brief psychotherapy. After a theoretical overview and review of the literature, a series of organizing questions and frameworks is provided to facilitate the clinician's capacity to apply a self psychological point of view to the understanding and conduct of brief treatment.
The author would like to express her appreciation to patients, students, and supervisees, who were sources of clinical examples incorporated in this article, and to Ernest Wolf and Carla Leone, who offered valuable suggestions on earlier drafts. The author is also very grateful for the wisdom, support, and editorial comments of Miriam Elson and for the legacy left to us all through the work of Michael Franz Basch.