Chapter 1 An Overview of Basic Self Psychology Concepts; Chapter 2 Aggression from a Self Psychological Viewpoint; Chapter 3 Empathy and the Selfobject; Chapter 4 The Grandiose Self; Chapter 5 Idealization; Chapter 6 A Third Chance for the Nuclear Self; Chapter 7 Intergenerational Continuity Versus Punishing Guilt This is a modified version of a chapter that appeared in A. Goldberg (Ed.), Progress in Self Psychology, Vol. 1 (New York: The Guilford Press, 1985), which is a collection of the papers presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Self Psychology, held in Los Angeles in 1983. Permission has been granted by the Guilford Press to publish this version.; Chapter 8 Traumatic States; Chapter 9 Special Populations; Chapter 10 The Joy of Psychotherapy;