Using Self Psychology in Psychotherapy

This book will familiarize mental health professionals with Kohut's self-psychological approach to understanding human behavior, and demonstrate its implications for therapy in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and in the elderly.

Helene Jackson, Ph.D., is on the faculty at Boston College, Graduate School of Social Work. As a recipient of an NIMH Clinical Faculty Scholar Award, she conducts national research on clinical bias and child abuse. Dr. Jackson received her MSW from Boston University and her doctorate from Smith College School for Social Work. She is in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.