Introduction/Howard Bacal -- 1. From the Kohut Archives/Charles B. Strozier -- I. Clinical: A. Transference and Countertransference: 2. Patient unconscious communication and analyst narcissistic vulnerability in the countertransference experience/William J. Coburn -- 3. The figure-ground relationship of a selfobject and repetitive dimensions of the transference/Jeffrey J. Mermelstein -- 4. Template or transference: some thoughts about Mark Gehrie's "Empathy in broader perspective"/Jeffrey Stern -- 5. The playing through of selfobject transferences of a nine-year-old boy/Iris Hilke -- 6. Twinship, vitality, pleasure/James E. Gorney -- 7. The loss and restoration of the sense of self in an alien culture: an application of the concept of the twinship selfobject function/Hideki Wada -- 8. Dreams: the understanding-explaining sequence, and the facilitation of curative process/Martin S. Livingston -- B. Selfobject and Objects: 9. Phantasy selfobjects and the conditions of therapeutic change/Lester Lenoff -- 10. Selfobject need conflict and loss experiences: a hidden potential/Jack Kohl -- 11. Dyadic capacity: progress in narcissistic development/Judith E. Levene and Taras Babiak -- 12. Expressive relating: the intentional use of the analyst's subjectivity/Lynn Preston -- C. Schizoid and Psychotic Patients: 13. The development of a more than binary self: constructing a common language between the therapist and a primitively organized schizoid patient/Karen Yadley Cobb -- II. Gender: 14. Exploring the "Bi" ways of self-experience: dissociation, alter ego selfobject experience, and gender/Doris Brothers -- 15. Sex, gender, and intersubjectivity: the two analyses of Mr. G/Judith Kaufman -- III. Self Psychology Applied: 16. Self and relationships: Kohut, Loewald, and the postmoderns/Judith Guss Teicholz -- 17. The Freud-Jung Break: reflections and revisions in the light of psychoanalytic self psychology/Lionel Corbett and Anne-Lise Cohen