Review
"In the best tradition of the psychoanalytic pioneers, Rochelle Kainer takes us on a journey into the interior. Supported by her own extensive clinical experience, her carefully chosen examples from art and literature, and her deft use of classical and contemporary theories, Kainer reveals previously hidden features of the psychic terrain. She is a boldly original guide who helps the reader explore the vicissitudes of identifications and the roles of good and bad objects in the formation of the self. Of particular interest to clinicians attempting to alleviate human suffering are Kainer's exploration of developmental processes gone awry and her illumination of the therapeutic action of the clinical encounter leading to the restoration of the self."
- James W. Barron, Ph.D., Editor, Self Analysis: Critical Inquiries, Personal Vision (Analytic Press, 1993)
"Rochelle Kainer is on the very short list of psychoanalytic thinkers who dare to speak of self psychology and neo-Kleinian theory in the same breath. In this ambitious and courageous book, she deftly marries concepts from these two seemingly incompatible schools, producing some illuminating conceptual offspring in the process."
- Susan H. Sands, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
"Owing to its integration of self-psychology and object relations theory, this book will be of interest to practitioners of both approaches as well as those who are interested in using both approaches within a relational perspective. A very rich, imaginative, and sound work."
- Michael Eigen, Ph.D., National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
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In
Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration, Rochelle Kainer attempts to show the natural flow between "subject" and "object" and "internal" and "external" as these concepts have been employed by different schools of psychoanalytic tho
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