The Perspective of The Self-Representation

The concept of the self-representation is offered as a framework for viewing clinical phenomena. As a final common pathway evolving from ego, superego, and id, the self-representation provides the "set" that organizes and gives a special quality to ego functions and object relations under pressure of unconscious wishes. Attention to the shifts of cathexes within the self-representation, to the forces that produce stability or instability within it, and to the defensive measures employed to correct instability is proposed as an approach which expands the analyst's--and ultimately the patient's--insights. Therapeutic change involves the progressive integration of new units of the self-representation. Older functional aspects of the self-representation and the object relations connected with them must be relinquished. Such renunciations frequently evoke reactions in response to loss both of the "parts" of the self and of the object. Such reactions merit careful therapeutic scrutiny

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Perspective (graphical) · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Quality (philosophy) · Representation (politics) · Scrutiny · Self · Self representation · Set (abstract data type) · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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  Dale Boesky•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1983

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  Robert L Tyson, Robert Tyson•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1983

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• The Psychoanalytic Process

  Samuel Abrams•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1990

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• The Self and the Object World

  Edith Jacobson•The Psychoanalytic Study of the…•1954

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• The Restoration of the Self

  Heinz Kohut•Restoration of the Self•2009

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  ALAN J EISNITZ•The Psychoanalytic Quarterly•1980

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• Mirror Dreams

  Open Access•ALAN J EISNITZ•Journal of the American…•1961

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