| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. By Charles B. Strozier. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. xiv, 495 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-374-16880-6.)

For an adherent of self psychology to write an unflinchingly critical biography of the admired founder of the movement is a major creative feat of empathy and scholarship, a feat that Charles B. Strozier has accomplished. While he valorizes Heinz Kohut, Strozier does not hesitate to relate his selfishness and narcissism, his lies and deceptions, his "protean sexuality" and "apparently fluid sexual boundaries." The book explains the concepts of self psychology, including the "self," the self object, and the idealizing and mirroring transferences, in clear English. . . .

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