{"id":3715,"date":"2015-12-01T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=3715"},"modified":"2015-12-12T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T14:34:29","slug":"kohuts-twinship-across-cultures-the-psychology-of-being-human","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/kohuts-twinship-across-cultures-the-psychology-of-being-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohut’s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Koichi Togashi <\/strong>(Japan) and Amanda Kottler<\/strong> (South Africa)<\/p>\n

\"togashicover1115\"<\/a>Kohut\u2019s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human<\/strong> (Routledge, 2015) attempts to make sense of Kohut\u2019s intentions when he radically redefined and elevated the analytic significance of the twinship experience. The shift from a sense of \u201cessential alikeness\u201d (Kohut, 1971)\u2014i.e., a patient\u2019s yearning to experience himself as like his analyst, or a patient\u2019s yearning to experience his analyst as like himself\u2014to \u201ca feeling that one is a human being among other human beings” (Kohut, 1984, p. 200) is profound. It begs the questions asked by the authors of this book: why did Kohut expand this concept to include the most basic sense of human existence? What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to live in this world? What is human anguish? And, finally, how do these questions relate to our psychoanalytic work?<\/p>\n

In this volume, Togashi and Kottler attempt to get to the heart of these existential questions through the lenses of relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis. The two authors, one from Japan and the other from South Africa, struggled independently with this concept and how it had been used in the literature, for ten years. Collaboratively they concluded that Kohut\u2019s re-definition illustrates that his thinking had begun a relational shift from a theory of \u201cthe psychology of the self\u201d toward what the authors refer to as \u201cthe psychology of being human.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book commences with an exploration of Kohut\u2019s work on twinship and an illustration of the value of what he left for elaboration following his untimely death. The book then introduces a new and very different sensitivity for understanding particular psychoanalytic relational processes and ideas about human existential anguish, trauma, and the meaning of life. It illustrates this apparently simple concept with a wide range of clinical material, demonstrating the complexity of Kohut\u2019s final definition of the twinship experience. The material reveals the intricacies involved in recognizing and working with traumatized patients who have never experienced themselves as \u201cbeing human,\u201d which the authors suggest might be better understood as \u201cfeeling at home\u201d or as having \u201ca sense of belonging.\u201d The book asks how a sense of being human<\/em>, as opposed to being described as human<\/em>, can be generated relationally, and how appreciating this distinction might help clinicians to better understand and work with trauma.<\/p>\n

Link<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.tandf.net\/books\/details\/9781138819177\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"togashiphoto1115w\"<\/a>Koichi Togashi, PhD, LP
\n<\/strong>Professor, Konan University
\nKobe, Japan
\nPsychoanalyst, Private Practice
\nHiroshima and Kobe, Japan
\n Email Koichi Togashi<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"kottlerphoto1115w\"<\/a>Amanda Kottler, MA (Clinical Psychology)
\n<\/strong>Clinical Psychologist\/Psychotherapist, Private Practice
\n37 Prince Street
\nOranjezicht 8001
\nCape Town, South Africa
\n Email Amanda Kottler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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