Self Pyschology!

I know AK has posted about this in the past, but I was reading a book last night called "Between and a client and a therapist" and it has a section on Kahut and described it so simply that even I could understand it LOL!

As I was reading it everything that happens for me in therapy was making sense and I could see how far I've come and how far I've yet to go. Its all so simple its silly if it weren't all so sad really.

Its a wonder mankind is as stable as it is really when you see just what goes into making a "self". Then again maybe mankind isn't really that stable?

Anyway its a pretty easy book to understand so I recommend it. Takes all the mystery out of transferrance and actually makes me feel glad that transferrace does occur and no longer will I feel ashamed of my "immature" needs in therapy now as they are there waiting to be met so that I may grow up into a fully mature adult.

Even Narcissim becomes something to be respected instead of shamed.

I use to read psychology books just to "check up" and make sure my T was doing things "right." LOL. She always was, "we" were like what was described in the good books. I always found I knew/understood them even though I'd never read them before.

Have you read any John Bowlby, mouse? He was amazing. http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/att..._induction.pdf

Mouse, thanks for mentioning the book. I am very interested in such stuff. Do you know who the author is?
Thanking you in advance,

hmm i am reading a book which might be described to a similar degree. It's entitled "The Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis" and relays in moderately simple terms the makeup of the human mind, problems it might encounter and their effects, and i'm about to begin the section on treatment.
I'm kinda off-topic..sorry! just definitely reminded me of that book....think i'll go read a tad more heh...=]

(oh it's by Eric Berne by the way)

hey. yeah,i find it helps me to read. partly because it helps me understand where my t is coming from and why it is that he does some of the things he does. it also helps me because i learn about various things that people think is going of for the kinds of problems that i'm having. i don't necessarily agree with what they have to say, but it gives me something to think about and it really does help me at times. it also helps to know that other people struggle with similar things. helps me feel less alone.