On Knowing and Using Myself: Reflections on an Analyst's Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalytic Change

Abstract

In this article I describe my journey to become a psychoanalyst, which includes discovering my resonance with the ideas and clinical approaches of a contemporary self psychological relational approach. I also reflect on a clinical vignette that I see playing a crucial role in my development as a psychoanalyst and consider analytic change processes in both implicit and explicit realms.