Kohut’s Self Psychology for a Fractured World: New Ways of Understanding the Self and Human Community

Drawing from Kohut’s conceptualisation of self, Riker sets out how contemporary America’s formulation of persons as autonomous, self-sufficient individuals is deeply injurious to the development of a vitalizing self-structure-a condition which lies behind much of the mental illness and social malaise of today’s world.

John Hanwell Riker has been an award-winning professor of philosophy at Colorado College since 1968 and has published four books. He was the Kohut Distinguished Professor at the University of Chicago in 2003.