Using Self Psychology in Child Psychotherapy: The Restoration of the Child (Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity)

Emphasizing the fragility of the developing self and the need for empathic parenting figures, Dr. Miller extends the psychodynamic theories of Heinz Kohut to child psychotherapy. Miller describes the powerful creative forces that push toward healthy self-development and brings Kohut’s theory of the self to the treatment of children and adolescents, enabling parents and therapists to apply healing to the child’s "self" while it is still in the process of forming.