In Collapse of the Self and Its Therapeutic Restoration, Rochelle Kainer attempts to show the natural flow between "subject" and "object" and "internal" and "external" as these concepts have been employed by different schools of psychoanalytic tho

Foreword - James Grotstein
Preface
I. Creating the Self
1. Found Objects: On the Nature of Identification
2. Falling in Love with a Work of Art: Identifications in the Creation of the Ideal Self
3. Sadomasochistic Identifications: The Formation of the Pathological Part of the Self
II. The Collapse of the Self
4. Narcissistic Injury and its Relation to Paranoid/Schizoid Collapse
5. Compulsive Eating: Autistic Self-Soothing in a Neurotic Structure
6. Hidden Spaces: Psychotic Residues in a Neurotic Structure
7. From "Hysteroid Dysphoria" to "Posttraumatic Stress Disorder": A Case for Psychoanalysis in the Era of Neurobiology
8. The Role of Projective Identification in Imaginative Empathy
9. Psychic Catastrophe and the Premature Birth of the Self: Implications for Treatment
10. - Lifting the Shadow of the Object: Reworking Pathological Internal Object-Relationships and Transforming Selfobject Failures