The commentary reviews Dr. Tuckett’s model for evaluating the clinical evidence for psychoanalytic theories. His analysis of Kohut’s “The Two Analyses of Mr. Z” is summarized as inadequate for his purposes, since the point of the “case” is to tell Kohut’s own story, not provide clinical evidence for self psychology. Such evidence, however, is abundantly available elsewhere in the Kohut’s work, that of his colleagues, and in the contemporary literature. Two works in progress by Strozier and his colleagues will provide additional clinical evidence for self psychology.
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