In it he comes out from under the veil, as he told John Gedo. There could be no return to the mainstream world of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler after a book like this. Stein was absolutely right. But even as Restoration closes options, it opens other opportunities. The book is Kohut's blueprint for a new psychology, the realition of his fondest dreams, toward which the pressure of illness was forcing him with mounting urgency.
Restoration is a book to spawn a movement.
It is, in one sense, a narrow clinical psychoanalytic book written for professionals. But it is in equal parts historical, reflective, and conceptual, linking past and present in the move towards his imagined and yearned-for future. The Making of a Psychoanalyst .