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1 This is most concentrated in his excellent Terrors and Experts (Phillips, Citation1995), in which he offers that “… when psychoanalysts spend too much time with each other, they start believing in psychoanalysis” (p. xvi).
2 In “Going Sane: Maps of Happiness,” Phillips discusses the difficultly in describing what “normal” is, while acknowledging, like Foucault before him, that so-called pathology is often identified as such primarily due to cultural bias.
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Nicholas Samstag
Nicholas Samstag, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, and Faculty, William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Samstag has written on psychoanalytic topics including psychoanalytic training and object relational perspectives on parenting.