On being one's self : clinical explorations in identity from John Steiner's workshop / edited by Sharon Numa.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Numa, Sharon, 1952- editor.

Series:

• New library of psychoanalysis
• The new library of psychoanalysis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Identity (Psychology).
• Self.

Physical Description:

xx, 300 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Summary:

"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 are 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

• Introduction / Sharon Numa
• An outline of the Kleinian model of the mind and its implications for the understanding of personal identity / Sharon Numa
• Identification and pathological identification: implications for identity / Anne Amos
• The cerebral mind versus the body mind: containing and recovering unknown parts of the self / Susan Lawrence
• Orientation, disorientation and identity development: an illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy / Giovanna Rita di Ceglie
• A mind of one's own: the growth of identity in an adult patient / Caroline Garland
• Failure to mourn: idealisation, illusion and identity / Sharon Numa
• Identity and the struggle to "be" in the face of distorting projections from an ill object / Philip Crockatt
• A lost child: the failure to develop an identity / Judith Jackson
• Forming an identity: from somatisation and hypochondriasis to hysteria and beyond / Anne Amos
• 'If you are not my mum, who are you?': a woman's analytic journey from a melancholic identification to an identity of her own / Orna Hadary
• Liquid fear: a dissolving identity / Sharon Numa
• Identity as the threads of meaning through a person's life / Denis Flynn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: On being one's self

ISBN:

• 9781032210742
• 1032210745
• 9781032210759
• 1032210753

OCLC:

1300916553