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Many people lead multi faceted lives. Arnold Goldberg is one of these. He is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a teacher, a supervisor, an editor, and an author. He was Director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, editor of the journal Progress in Self Psychology and is famous for having begun his career as Heinz Kohut's most original student and later his closest colleague. After Kohut died Goldberg finished How Does Analysis Cure? His writings are incredibly wide ranging, his interest in all things psychoanalytic breathtaking as the selections in this book testify. I especially love his work on Behavior Disorders not simply because I was fortunate enough to write for the Case Book he edited on the subject, but because his ideas changed forever my thinking on acting out patients and transformed my clinical results with them. Kohut may have originated the idea of the vertical split in self psychology, but Goldberg has taken the idea to places no other self psychologist has gone.

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"Reading Goldberg opens both mind and heart. His vision is powerfully and profoundly humane, transforming our understanding of people the world often scorns by revealing them to be fellow travelers trying to hold themselves together in the face of all but unendurable emotional pain. Goldberg also often surprises. He might discuss the structure of the self in terms of a railway, or take up the question of whether or not analysts should apologize to their patients, or lay out the vicissitudes of ""wishy-washy"" personalities. He is concerned with the way psychoanalytic theories at once empower and imprison the minds of those who employ them, writes about how morality uncannily invades clinical thinking and maps the boundaries between psychoanalysis and psychiatry. --Jeffrey Stern, PhD, Faculty, Intstitute for Psychoanalysis, Editor, Psychoanalysis and Dreams (2015) Arnold Goldberg, MD is perhaps the only one in psychoanalysis who blends the best of classical theory with the nuanced ideas of self psychology. As these selected papers illustrate, Goldberg's work ranges from a detailed analysis of the models of the mind; to sensitive examinations of various forms of the perversions (and what they mean); to wide-ranging clinical examples of the theory; and to the philosophical context for theory and practice. His restless mind never settles for the ordinary and his insights are trenchant and endlessly engaging. No one has been more consistently interesting. --Charles Strozier, PhD Professor, John Jay College & Grad. Center, CUNY Author, Heinz Kohut: The Making of A Psychoanalyst"

Reading Goldberg opens both mind and heart. His vision is powerfully and profoundly humane, transforming our understanding of people the world often scorns by revealing them to be fellow travelers trying to hold themselves together in the face of all but unendurable emotional pain. Goldberg also often surprises. He might discuss the structure of the self in terms of a railway, or take up the question of whether or not analysts should apologize to their patients, or lay out the vicissitudes of wishy-washy personalities. He is concerned with the way psychoanalytic theories at once empower and imprison the minds of those who employ them, writes about how morality uncannily invades clinical thinking and maps the boundaries between psychoanalysis and psychiatry. --Jeffrey Stern, PhD, Faculty, Intstitute for Psychoanalysis, Editor, Psychoanalysis and Dreams (2015) Arnold Goldberg, MD is perhaps the only one in psychoanalysis who blends the best of classical theory with the nuanced ideas of self psychology. As these selected papers illustrate, Goldberg's work ranges from a detailed analysis of the models of the mind; to sensitive examinations of various forms of the perversions (and what they mean); to wide-ranging clinical examples of the theory; and to the philosophical context for theory and practice. His restless mind never settles for the ordinary and his insights are trenchant and endlessly engaging. No one has been more consistently interesting. --Charles Strozier, PhD Professor, John Jay College & Grad. Center, CUNY Author, Heinz Kohut: The Making of A Psychoanalyst

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