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How Does Analysis Cure ? (1) is a posthumous work. Since Kohut did not have time to revise the final draft, a certain unevenness in style and discrepancies in content are at times apparent.
It is an important work, even though it can't be considered as fundamental in the development of Kohut's Self psychology as The Analysis of the Self (1971) and The Restoration of the Self (1977). It contains no fundamental innovations which were not already present, at least implicitely, in his earlier works. However the book is notable for the clear and immediate way in which it expresses its arguments, which more than in the earlier works is an advantage for the less attentive reader. The reason why the concepts contained in this book are stated so clearly seems to be that Kohut sets himself a specific task: to define certain aspects of his own