Kohut's Self Psychology for a Fractured World: New Ways of Understanding the Self and Human Community - Paperbackby John Hanwell Riker (Author) 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. Author Biography John Hanwell Riker has been an award winning professor of philosophy at Colorado