The 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 thought. In describing how the reworking of pathological internal object relationships occurs in conjunction with the transformation of selfobject failures, Kainer brings new insight to bear on the healing of the self at the same time as she contributes to healing the historic split in psychoanalysis between Kleinian theory and self psychology."--BOOK JACKET.