Origins
Kohut came to psychoanalysis by way of neurology and psychiatry in the 1940s, but then 'embraced analysis with the fervor of a convert... "Mr Psychoanalysis"' took on an idealizing image of Freud and his theories. Subsequently 'In a burst of creativity that began in the mid-1960s...Kohut found his voice and explored narcissism in new ways that led to what he ended up calling a "psychology of the self".' Thus the publication of 'his book The Analysis of the Self...was what Kuhn would call a new paradigm.'
Kohut argued that therapy should be more involved with the patient than with analytical theories. In other words, to make therapy work, one needs to address the patient's self.
Read more about this topic: Self Psychology
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