On Being One’s Self. Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner’s Workshop 1st Edition Sharon Numa

On Being One’s Self. Clinical Explorations in Identity from John Steiner’s Workshop – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781003266624,1003266622

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1032210745
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1032210742
• Author(s): Sharon Numa

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.

The variety of problems that can arise in relation to the development of a unique identity is reflected in rich clinical material that vividly illustrates ‘identities’ felt to be weak, unformed, fluid or brittle, in many cases demonstrating how the sense of self is held together by pathological defences and organisations. The book examines several long-term adult analytic cases, suggesting that a mature personal identity involves not only ‘knowing who one is’ but also the capacity for empathic identification with the experience of others as separate human beings.

The question of ‘having’ an identity, or the fear of losing it, is a central concern of individuals, and this volume, which will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, considers these issues by looking at the deepest conflicts around self and identity as they emerge and are relived in the transference relationship.

Table contents:

1. An Outline of the Kleinian Model of the Mind and its Implications for the Understanding of Personal Identity

Sharon Numa

2. Identification and Pathological Identification: Implications for Identity

Anne Amos

3. The Cerebral Mind versus the Body Mind: Containing and Recovering Unknown Parts of the Self

Susan Lawrence

4. Orientation, Disorientation and Identity Development: an Illustration from Dante’s Divine Comedy

Giovanna Rita di Ceglie

5. A Mind of One’s Own: the Growth of Identity in an Adult Patient

Caroline Garland

6. Failure to Mourn: Idealization, Illusion and Identity

Sharon Numa

7. Identity and the Struggle to “be” in the Face of Distorting Projections from an Ill Object

Phillip Crockatt

8. A Lost Child: the Failure to Develop an Identity

Judtih Jackson

9. Forming an Identity: from Somatisation and Hypochondriasis to Hysteria and Beyond

Anne Amos

10. ‘If you are not my mum, who are you?’: A Woman’s Analytic Journey from Melancholic Identification to an Identity of her Own

Orna Hadary

11. Liquid Fear and a Dissolving Identity

Sharon Numa

12. Identity as the Threads of Meaning Through a Person’s Life

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