On Being One's Self: Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner's Workshop

ISBN-13: 9781032210742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Opis

On Being One’s Self emerges from discussions in John Steiner’s Workshop, and investigates the meanings of self and identity, including the many ways in which the development of personal identity can be subverted, interrogating what can facilitate the development of a reasonably stable identity.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. An Outline of the Kleinian Model of the Mind and its Implications for the Understanding of Personal Identity  2. Identification and Pathological Identification: Implications for Identity  3. The Cerebral Mind versus the Body Mind: Containing and Recovering Unknown Parts of the Self  4. Orientation, Disorientation and Identity Development: an Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy  5. A Mind of One's Own: the Growth of Identity in an Adult Patient  6. Failure to Mourn: Idealization, Illusion and Identity  7. Identity and the Struggle to "be" in the Face of Distorting Projections from an Ill Object  8. A Lost Child: the Failure to Develop an Identity  9. Forming an Identity: from Somatisation and Hypochondriasis to Hysteria and Beyond  10. 'If you are not my mum, who are you?': A Woman's Analytic Journey from Melancholic Identification to an Identity of her Own  11. Liquid Fear and a Dissolving Identity  12. Identity as the Threads of Meaning Through a Person's Life

O autorze

Sharon Numa is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis who has been working as an analyst in private practice for thirty years. Originally working as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS she subsequently trained at the Tavistock Clinic. She is a training supervisor and therapist for psychotherapy associations and teaches clinical and theory seminars both in London and, in the last few years, in Beijing.