"How Does Analysis Cure?" is Heinz Kohut's final book. It is, in part, a response to criticism leveled at his two previous books, "The Analysis of the Self" and "The Restoration of the Self, but it is also a thoughtful, fluent reevaluation of his own work in psychoanalytic self psychology.[...]
In this fascinating excursion into medical and psychoanalytic history, Paul E. Stepansky charts the rise and fall of the "surgical metaphor" - Freud's view of psychoanalysis as analogous to a surgical procedure. Approaching Freud's understanding of surgery and surgeons historically and biographicall[...]