Postmodern Self-Psychology: Progress in Self-Psychology: Vol. 18

This work covers the several tributaries of self-psychological thought in the decades after Kohut and continues with an elaboration of "reflective relativism" as a self-psychological way out of epistemological quagmires about the "essential reality" of the analytic endeavour. A study of 20th-century American society. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political and economic problems that confront the individual in society.