title: Selfobject as dramatis personae: cultivating the improvisational in self-psychological psychoanalysis.
abstract: This chapter discusses the influence of drama in the author's background in conceptualizing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The history of ideas relevant to a dramaturgical analysis from Freud to Kohut's revolution, with additional modifications by relational psychoanalysis, is explored. The author poses a trimodal model of a dramatrugically informed improvisational play in psychoanalytic treatment, with an accompanying case illustration.
authors.affiliation: Ringsite@aol.com
authors.forename: Philip A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Ringstrom
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004324:Drama; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D019455:Self Psychology