Contents

Acknowledgments

PART 1. THEORY AND CLINICAL WORK

Chapter I.

Acknowledgment of the Emerging Real Self

Chapter II.

Psychoanalytic Theories of the Self: A Brief Summary

Chapter III.

The Real Self: Structure and Development

Chapter IV.

The Impaired Real-Self: Psychopathology

Chapter V.

Treatment of the Impaired Real Self: Communicative Matching

PART 2. SOCIOCULTURAL

Chapter VI.

Development of the Real Self and Maternal Libidinal Acknowledgment: Cross-Cultural Approaches

Chapter VII.

Sociocultural Values and the Real Self

PART 3. CREATIVITY AND THE REAL SELF

Chapter VIII.

Personal and Artistic Creativity

Chapter IX.

Thomas Wolfe’s Quest for a Real Self—The Struggle

Chapter X.

Thomas Wolfe’s Quest for a Real Self—Partial Fulfillment

Chapter XI.

Discussion and Summary

Bibliography

Index