Intimacy and Separateness in Psychoanalysis av Warren S. (private practice Washington DC USA) Poland

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<P>Clinical psychoanalysis serves as our best laboratory for exploring the riddle of what it is to be a person, and how a person is at once singularly unique while always a piece of the interpersonal fabric of humanity. In <I>Intimacy and Separateness</I><I>in Psychoanalysis</I>, Warren Poland casts a freshly erudite eye on this paradox, resisting individual or intersubjective bias and avoiding the parochial allegiances common in our age of pluralism.</P><P></P><P>Poland combines vivid reports from clinical analyses, literary readings, and his own life - all unfolding original observations on a person as both <I>a part of</I> and <I>apart from</I> human commonality. His consideration of how one person''s witnessing facilitates another''s self-definition, a concept extended here in his study of outsiderness as part of human nature, has been marked a keynote contribution. Clinical illustrations of moments that matter but are usually omitted from public presentation are set alongside exam