self-psychology

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(Psikoloji, Ruhbilim) Self psychology is a school of psychoanalytic theory and therapy created by Heinz Kohut and developed in the United States. Self psychology explains psychopathology as being the result of disrupted or unmet developmental needs. Essential to understanding Self psychology are the concepts of empathy, self-object, mirroring, idealising, alter ego/twinship and the tripolar self. Though self psychology also recognizes certain drives, conflicts and complexes present in Freudian psychodynamic theory, these are understood within a different framework
self-psychology