# The Analysis of the Self *The Analysis of the Self* (1971) is [[Heinz Kohut]]'s foundational work launching **self psychology**, which reframed narcissism not as something to be condemned but as a developmental line with its own healthy and pathological forms. Kohut's empathic, deficit-based model became one of the two poles — opposite [[Otto Kernberg]]'s conflict-and-defense model — of the modern understanding of [[Narcissistic Personality Disorder]]. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound wikilinks. Expand with self psychology and the Kohut–Kernberg contrast.