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Self Psychology
Self Psychology
January 13, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Back Classroom
Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2022-23, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 3:30-5:00pm
Donald Schimmel, PhD
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
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January 13, 2023 — Empathy
[37 pages]
This class will explore Kohut’s view of empathy as a treatment approach, a process of feeling oneself into the other’s experience, and as means of data collection, which Kohut referred to as vicarious introspection. Kohut’s paper explains to readers the paradigm shift from Freud’s “Guilty Man” to his own conception of “Tragic Man.” Tuch Gives provides a discussion of more recent conceptualizations of empathy.
Kohut, H. (1982). Introspection, Empathy, and the Semi-Circle of Mental Health. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 63:395-407.
Tuch, R.H. (1997). Beyond Empathy: Confronting Certain Complexities in Self Psychology Theory. Psychoanal Q., 66:259-282.
