Heinz Kohut & Self Psychology
A Three Session Series by Dr Charles Strozier
About This Webinar
This three-part webinar series reintroduces Heinz Kohut to a new generation of psychotherapists — including psychoanalysts, clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other clinicians committed to depth-oriented talk therapy — who may have lost sight of his enduring clinical relevance.
To truly understand Kohut, he needs to be relieved of his language. While at times abstract and even internally contradictory, Kohut was a profoundly transformative thinker whose work marked a decisive paradigm shift in psychoanalysis — from the classical tripartite, drive-based model to a psychology of the self as a cohesive, relational, and holistic construct. His ideas reshaped contemporary psychodynamic practice and continue to influence relational and intersubjective approaches today.
The series will be presented by Charles B. Strozier — Kohut’s biographer and author of Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst and The New World of Self, among many other publications. For over 35 years, Strozier has been a leading voice in self psychology and brings both scholarly depth and clinical clarity to Kohut’s work.
MASTERCLASS SERIES
Rediscover Kohut’s Clinical Legacy
A Three-Session Journey into the Theory, Clinical Depth, and Legacy of Self Psychology
Revisiting Kohut: A Transformative Series on Self Psychology with
Prof Charles Strozier
A Three-Part Masterclass Bringing Kohut’s Transformative Ideas Back to Contemporary Psychotherapy
Webinar Details
Format: Online Webinar. Includes access to video recordings for One Year.
Date & Time
Session One (Kohut in Historical Context): Saturday, 25th July, 26 - 09.00 AM to 11:00 A.M [Sydney Time - GMT +10]
Session Two (Sexualization and Trauma): Saturday, 8th August, 26 - 09.00 AM to 11:00 A.M [Sydney Time - GMT +10]
Session Three (How Self Psychology Works): Saturday, 22nd August, 26 - 09.00 AM to 11:00 A.M [Sydney Time - GMT +10]
Price: A$149 - For all three sessions (Earlybird Special available until 31 March 2025 — then $199 applies)
CPD Certificate: 6 Hours
MASTERCLASS SERIES
Deepen Your Understanding of the Self in Psychotherapy
Develop a deeper grasp of empathy, selfobject experience, and the therapeutic process as understood through the lens of self psychology
About Prof Charles B. Strozier
Charles is a Professor Emeritus of History, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York; a Training and Supervising Analyst at the TRISP Institute and Foundation; and a practicing psychoanalyst. He is the author of the definitive biography, Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst (2001), and more recently the lead author with several others of The New World of Self: Heinz Kohut’s Transformation of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (2022). He is also the co-author of The Fundamentalist Mindset (2010); and the author of Apocalypse: The Psychology of Fundamentalism in America (1994); Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and the World Trade Center Disaster in the Words of Survivors and Witnesses (2011); two books on Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln’s Quest for Union: A Psychological Portrait (1982, revised edition in 2001) and Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln (2016); and several other books and close to 100 articles. He is the lead author of two current books in progress, the first with Orly Shoshani, Idealization: Psychological, Spiritual, and Political Meanings, and the other with David Terman, et.al, is How Self Psychology Actually Works