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Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis

Author : John Madonna
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317496493
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis written by John Madonna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis provides a detailed look at the intricacies of attaining emotional presence in psychoanalytic work. John Madonna and a distinguished group of contributors draw on both the relational and modern psychoanalytic schools of thought to examine a variety of different problems commonly experienced in achieving emotional resonance between analyst and patient, setting out ways in which such difficulties may be overcome in psychoanalytic treatment, practical clinical settings and in training contexts. A focused review of relevant comparative literature is followed by chapters featuring individual clinical case studies, each illustrating particularly challenging aspects. The uniqueness of this book lays not simply in the espousal of the commonly accepted importance of emotional resonance between analyst and patient; rather it is in the way in which emotional presence is registered by both participants, requiring a working through, which at times can be not only difficult but dangerous. Such efforts involve a theory which enables the lens to understanding, an effective methodology which guides intervention. The book also calls for the art of the analyst to construct with patients meanings which heal, and possess the heart to persist in commitment despite the odds. Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis is about patients who suffer, struggle, resist and prevail. It offers distinctive, transparently told accounts of analysts who engage with patients, navigating through states of confusion, hatred and more controversial feelings of love. Emotional Presence in Psychoanalysis features highly compelling material written in an accessible and easily understood style. It will be a valuable resource for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychologists and clinical social workers as well as teachers, trainers and students seeking to understand the power and potential of the analytic process and the resistances to it.

Clinical Values

Author : Sandra Buechler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135061009
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Clinical Values written by Sandra Buechler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this refreshingly honest and open book, Sandra Buechler looks at therapeutic process issues from the standpoint of the human qualities and human resourcefulness that the therapist brings to each clinical encounter. Her concern is with the clinical values that shape the psychoanalytically oriented treatment experience. How, she asks, can one person evoke a range of values--curiosity, hope, kindness, courage, sense of purpose, emotional balance, the ability to bear loss, and integrity--in another person and thereby promote psychological change? For Buechler, these core values, and the emotions that infuse them, are at the heart of the clinical process. They permeate the texture and tone, and shape the content of what therapists say. They provide the framework for formulating and working toward treatment goals and keep the therapist emotionally alive in the face of the often draining vicissitudes of the treatment process. Clinical Values: Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment is addressed to therapists young and old. By focusing successively on different emotion-laden values, Buechler shows how one value or another can center the therapist within the session. Taken together, these values function as a clinical compass that provides the therapist with a sense of direction and militates against the all too frequent sense of "flying by the seat of one's pants." Buechler makes clear that the values that guide treatment derive from the full range of the clinician's human experiences, and she is candid in relating the personal experiences--from inside and outside the consulting room--that inform her own matrix of clinical values and her own clinical approach. A compelling record of one gifted therapist's pathway to clinical maturity, Clinical Values has a more general import: It exemplifies the variegated ways in which productive clinical work of any type ultimately revolves around the therapist's ability to make the most of being "all too human."

Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind

Author : Dan Gilhooley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000586774
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind written by Dan Gilhooley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this in-depth and unique collaboration between a patient and his psychoanalyst, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead examines the unconscious mind by analysing the patient’s novel written during his treatment as the focus. Using the patient’s creative writing and their intersubjective relationship as evidence, Dan Gilhooley and Frank Toich show how psychoanalysis fits within a postmaterialist model of mind. In this ground-breaking exploration, Gilhooley and Toich together demonstrate how a nonlocal unconscious can reshape the psychoanalytic conception of the mind. Split into four parts, Intersubjective, Quantum, History and Collaboration, Dan introduces three themes in the first: recovery from death, the intersubjective nature of therapeutic work and the role of creative imagination, combining these themes with analysis of Frank’s work and short, related stories from his own life. Part II, Quantum, introduces the concept of nonlocality to describe the mind and draws on the appearance of quantum physics in Frank’s science fiction, before moving onto Part III, History, which examines the emergence of psychoanalysis out of animal magnetism, looking at rapport, telepathy and love in psychotherapy. Finally, Collaboration discusses their ongoing psychotherapeutic experiment, the role of imagination, dissociation and the cosmic mind in psychological growth. Interweaving creative writing, psychoanalytic theory and real-life stories, the book re-contextualizes the history and future of psychoanalysis. Due to its multidisciplinary nature, this book will appeal to psychotherapists and psychologists in practice and in training. It would also be a vital resource for academics and students of counseling, consciousness studies, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychology.

The Corrective Emotional Experience Revisited

Author : Richard C. Marohn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317770862
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Corrective Emotional Experience Revisited written by Richard C. Marohn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. This issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry Volume 10 number 3, re-examines the theoretical and clinical implications of the corrective emotional experience concept. It contains the varied viewpoints of psychoanalysts who consider the therapeutic process and to give us their assessment of Franz Alexander's ideas and recommendations, as well as their own views of therapy.

Self and Emotional Life

Author : Adrian Johnston
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153518X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Self and Emotional Life written by Adrian Johnston and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity. Merging three distinct disciplines—European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience—Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of affective subjects as conceptualized in philosophy and psychoanalysis with neuroscience. Their experiments yield different outcomes. Johnston finds psychoanalysis and neurobiology have the potential to enrich each other, though affective neuroscience demands a reconsideration of whether affects can be unconscious. Investigating this vexed issue has profound implications for theoretical and practical analysis, as well as philosophical understandings of the emotions. Malabou believes scientific explorations of the brain seriously problematize established notions of affective subjectivity in Continental philosophy and Freudian-Lacanian analysis. She confronts philosophy and psychoanalysis with something neither field has seriously considered: the concept of wonder and the cold, disturbing visage of those who have been affected by disease or injury, such that they are no longer affected emotionally. At stake in this exchange are some of philosophy's most important claims concerning the relationship between the subjective mind and the objective body, the structures and dynamics of the unconscious dimensions of mental life, the role emotion plays in making us human, and the functional differences between philosophy and science.

The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology

Author : David M. Goodman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000895246
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology written by David M. Goodman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the technological age and how psychoanalysis can help us better understand human life. Presented in five parts, David M. Goodman and Matthew Clemente collaborate with an international community of scholars and practitioners to consider how psychoanalytic formulations can be brought to bear on the impact technology has had on the facets of human subjectivity. Chapters examine how technology is reshaping our understanding of what it means to be a human subject, through embodiment, intimacy, porn, political motivation, mortality, communication, interpersonal exchange, thought, attention, responsibility, vulnerability, and more. Filled with thought-provoking and nuanced chapters, the contributors approach technology from a diverse range of entry points but all engage through the lens of psychoanalytic theory, practice, and thought. This book is essential for academics and students of psychoanalysis, philosophy, ethics, media, liberal arts, social work, and bioethics. With the inclusion of timely chapters on the coronavirus pandemic and teletherapy, psychoanalysts in practice and training as well as other mental health practitioners will also find this book an invaluable resource.

Psychoanalysis in Asia

Author : Alf Gerlach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429917813
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis in Asia written by Alf Gerlach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is looking East. Whilst in the West psychoanalysis is fighting to maintain its position among the other therapies in a society which has less time for introspection and self-reflective thought, in Asia a new frontier is opening up: we are witnessing a surge of interest for psychoanalysis among the mental health professionals and among the younger generations, interest which is articulated and nuanced differently in the different Asian countries. In Asia and particularly in India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, the development of psychoanalysis reflects separate socio-political historical contexts, each with a rich cultural texture and fuelled by the interest of a new generation of mental health professionals for psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method.

The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Author : Claudia Luiz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315411954
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Psychoanalyst written by Claudia Luiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and uplifting work, Dr. Claudia Luiz reveals why psychoanalysis is more relevant than ever, perhaps the only discipline currently suitable to help solve the mystery of our emotional challenges. In gripping stories about people struggling with depression, anxiety, sexual dysfunction, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and more, Luiz brings us right into each treatment where we discover how psychoanalysts today prepare their patient’s mind for self-discovery. Following each story, absorbing commentaries acquaint the reader with the theories of the mind that currently guide treatment, and the innovative clinical techniques that are revolutionizing the field, including how Luiz learned to integrate her own emotions as therapeutic instruments for diagnosis and cure. The Making of a Psychoanalyst is an ideal book for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in practice and in training, mental health professionals working in social care, and students interested in the evolution of an undying discipline that embodies personal narrative. Anyone interested in knowing how two human beings interact with each other to effect profound change will want to read this book.

Making a Difference in Patients' Lives

Author : Sandra Buechler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113546958X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Making a Difference in Patients' Lives written by Sandra Buechler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008-04-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Gradiva Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Publication! Within the title of her book, Making a Difference in Patients' Lives, Sandra Buechler echoes the hope of all clinicians. But, she counters, experience soon convinces most of us that insight, on its own, is often not powerful enough to have a significant impact on how a life is actually lived. Many clinicians and therapists have turned toward emotional experience, within and outside the treatment setting, as a resource. How can the immense power of lived emotional experience be harnessed in the service of helping patients live richer, more satisfying lives? Most patients come into treatment because they are too anxious, or depressed, or don’t seem to feel alive enough. Something is wrong with what they feel, or don’t feel. Given that the emotions operate as a system, with the intensity of each affecting the level of all the others, it makes sense that it would be an emotional experience that would have enough power to change what we feel. But, ironically, the wider culture, and even psychoanalysts, seem to favor "solutions" that aim to mute emotionality, rather than relying on one emotion to modify another. We turn to pharmaceutical, cognitive, or behavioral change to make a difference in how life feels. Because we are afraid of emotional intensity, we cut off our most powerful source of regulation. In clear, jargon-free prose that utilizes both clinical vignettes and excerpts from poetry, art, and literature, Buechler explores how the power to feel can become the power to change. Through an active empathic engagement with the patient and an awareness of the healing potential inherent in each of our fundamental emotions, the clinician can make a substantial difference in the patient’s capacity to embrace life.

Emotional Storm

Author : Michael Eigen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567543
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Storm written by Michael Eigen and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating look at human relatedness by one of the field's most innovative thinkers. "When two personalities meet, an emotional storm is created." This provocative quote by renowned psychoanalyst W.R. Bion is the point of departure for Eigen's new work. In the tradition of Martin Buber, Eigen explores the broad spectrum of emotions we experience in our relatedness to others, from feelings of longing, plenitude, and fulfillment to starvation, suffocation, and blind rage. Unlike authors of "easy" self-help books, Eigen embraces the storms of life as a critical aspect of our human bond. For Eigen, the emotional storm is not pathological, but rather integral to our humanity and instrumental to our growth and development. For this reason, he looks critically at our attempts to blunt our emotional response to the world around us. Like Eigen's other work, Emotional Storm weaves case studies, literary references, and psychoanalytic theory into an integrated, complex understanding.

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in a Changing World

Author : Catalina Bronstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000871614
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis in a Changing World written by Catalina Bronstein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies psychoanalytic insight to work with children and adolescents in a changing, often traumatic, world. Each chapter considers how psychoanalysis can develop and be developed, assessing how in the modern world, psychological disturbance and psychological trauma is manifest in new, unfamiliar ways. From new and different social and technological realities, to the internet, and new sexual discourse, each chapter explores how the analyst can hold onto fundamental psychoanalytic understandings of mental functioning, address the young patient’s or family’s need for containment, while respecting the importance of drives, the varieties of psychosexuality, and the powerful impact of anxiety on psychological development. In relation to children, these authors disclose the potential destructiveness of impingements from adults on a precious, vulnerable development. This collection is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as well as other health and educational professionals working with children and adolescents.

Relational Integrative Psychotherapy

Author : Linda Finlay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119087325
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Relational Integrative Psychotherapy written by Linda Finlay and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed specifically for the needs of trainees and newly-qualified therapists, Relational Integrative Psychotherapy outlines a form of therapy that prioritizes the client and allows for diverse techniques to be integrated within a strong therapeutic relationship. Provides an evidence-based introduction to the processes and theory of relational integrative psychotherapy in practice Presents innovative ideas that draw from a variety of traditions, including cognitive, existential-phenomenological, gestalt, psychoanalytic, systems theory, and transactional analysis Includes case studies, footnotes, ‘theory into practice’ boxes, and discussion of competing and complementary theoretical frameworks Written by an internationally acclaimed speaker and author who is also an active practitioner of relational integrative psychotherapy

Holding and Psychoanalysis

Author : Joyce Anne Slochower
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135891648
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Holding and Psychoanalysis written by Joyce Anne Slochower and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective, Joyce Slochower brings a contemporary relational framework to bear on Winnicott's notion of the analytic holding environment. She presents a fresh, thought-provoking, and clinically useful integration of Winnicott's seminal insights with contemporary relational and feminist/psychoanalytic contributions. Seeking to broaden the concept of holding beyond work with severely regressed patients, she addresses holding in a variety of clinical contexts and focuses especially on holding processes in relation to issues of dependence, self-involvement, and hate. She also considers clinical work with patients "on the edge" - patients who seem deperately to need a holding experience that remains paradoxically elusive. Slochower begins her study by questioning the therapeutic limitations of an interactive style. There are times, she proposes, when certain patients simply cannot tolerate evidence of the analyst's separate subjective presence and instead need a holding experience. Though this holding function is essential to work with difficult patients, it enters into the treatment of all patients, whether as figure or ground. Slochower's relational understanding of holding leads her to consider the impact of holding on patient and analyst alike. Throughout, she emphasizes the analyst's and the patient's co-construction, during moments of holding, of an essential illusion of analytic attunement; this illusion serves to protect the patient from potentially disruptive aspects of the analyst's subjective presence. Slochower's case vignettes helpfully illuminate the intersubjective aspects of the holding process, including the clinical picture when a holding frame fails. She elaborates her thesis by considering the therapeutic function of holding in mourning. And she concludes her study with a cogent examination of the theoretical and clinical limitations of working with a holding process. A welcome reprise on an essential Winnicottian theme, Holding and Psychoanalysis broadens and deepens our understanding of the therapeutic role of the analyst's holding function.

The Emotional Tie

Author : Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780804720359
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Emotional Tie written by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eight essays collected here extend the author's re-evaluation of the philosophical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and thereby develop his arguments for increased attention to the role of affect - of the emotional tie, in our conceptions of the psychoanalytic subject. The author analyses the political and ethical implications of Freud's work in the first part, Freudian Politics.

Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy

Author : William O'Donohue
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412913659
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy written by William O'Donohue and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Contemporary Psychotherapy explores a wide range of constructs not captured in the DSM or traditional research but that play important roles in psychotherapy cases. To provide readers with a tool bag of practical techniques they can use in these cases, editors William O'Donohue and Steven R. Graybar present chapters written by leading clinical authorities on such topics as the process of change in psychotherapy, attachment and terror management, projective identification, terminating psychotherapy therapeutically, shame and its many ramifications for clients, dream work, boundaries, forgiveness, the repressed and recovered memory debate, and many others.

The Practice of Embodying Emotions

Author : Raja Selvam, PhD
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623174783
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Embodying Emotions written by Raja Selvam, PhD and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A grand accomplishment.” —Dr. Peter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing® and author of Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice A body-based, science-backed method for regulating behavior, thoughts, and feelings and improving well-being--shown to shorten therapy time and improve emotional outcomes. In the first book on Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP), clinical psychologist Dr. Raja Selvam offers a new, complementary approach for building more capacity to tolerate emotions using the body--especially emotions that are difficult or unpleasant. The ISP model shows readers how to expand and regulate emotional experiences in the body to improve different therapeutic outcomes--cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physical, energetic, relational, and even spiritual--in life and in all types of therapies, including other body psychotherapy and somatic psychology approaches. You will learn the physiology of emotions in the brain and body and how to: Access different types of emotions quickly Facilitate embodiment and regulation of feelings Process and heal different traumas and attachment wounds A go-to guide for emotional integration, The Practice of Embodying Emotions is of value in the treatment of a wide range of clinical problems involving difficult emotions--from ordinary life events to psychosomatic or psychophysiological disorders, developmental trauma, prenatal and perinatal trauma, attachment disorders, borderline personality disorder, complex PTSD, collective trauma, and intergenerational trauma--and in improving outcomes and shortening treatment time in different therapies including psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, and CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).

Individuation in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Author : Thomas Jordan (Ph.D.)
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Individuation in Contemporary Psychoanalysis written by Thomas Jordan (Ph.D.) and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jordan, a practicing psychoanalyst, explores the question: where is the individual in psychoanalytic theory and methodology? He argues that psychological individuation is the primary therapeutic experience of psychoanalysis, and in the process provides historical, anecdotal, and theoretical evidence to support his thesis. He examines themes such as psychological representation; individuality on a number of levels, including the unconscious and in interpersonal relationships; the individuation of psychoanalysis; and the ways that psychoanalysis can foster individuation.