Bernd Huppertz, MD, is a physician, neurologist, and psychotherapist, and he has had a private practice in psychoanalysis in Germany since 1998. He has been widely published in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine.

This book . . . takes a most unusual and interesting approach—writers from a very wide range of contemporary psychoanalytic schools comment on the same cases, drawn from a consistent context. Will our psychoanalytic approaches turn out to be refracted by this lens into a whole range of diversity, perhaps even contradiction? Or will we find out that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? That perhaps when a range of psychoanalysts think about a person, described—crucially—in a particular way by his or her analyst, they tend to converge on certain key concepts and ways of characterizing that person’s core self and identity? Thanks to Dr. Huppertz, we shall see!

• Foreword by Mary Target, PhD, University College, LondonAcknowledgmentsA Note on ConfidentialityIntroduction1 Robert S. Wallerstein, US2 Theodore Jacobs, US3 Susan Loden, UK4 Alfred Ribi, Switzerland5 Pamela L. Donleavy, US6 Grazina Gudaite, Lithuania7 Kerry Kelly and Jack Novick, US8 Penelope Garvey, UK9 Marina Lia, Italy10 Mariângela Mendes de Almeida, Brazil11 Angela Joyce, UK12 Anne Alvarez, UK13 Myriam Perrin, France14 Joan Raphael-Leff, UK15 David Scharff, US16 Alexandra Harrison, US17 Peter Kaufmann and Sarah Mendelsohn, US18 Neil Skolnick, US19 Shelley Doctors, US 20 Ghislaine Boulanger, USConclusion and Further ReflectionsIndex About the Author

Bernd Huppertz, MD, is a physician, neurologist, and psychotherapist, and he has had a private practice in psychoanalysis in Germany since 1998. He has been widely published in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine.

This book . . . takes a most unusual and interesting approach—writers from a very wide range of contemporary psychoanalytic schools comment on the same cases, drawn from a consistent context. Will our psychoanalytic approaches turn out to be refracted by this lens into a whole range of diversity, perhaps even contradiction? Or will we find out that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? That perhaps when a range of psychoanalysts think about a person, described—crucially—in a particular way by his or her analyst, they tend to converge on certain key concepts and ways of characterizing that person’s core self and identity? Thanks to Dr. Huppertz, we shall see!

• Foreword by Mary Target, PhD, University College, LondonAcknowledgmentsA Note on ConfidentialityIntroduction1 Robert S. Wallerstein, US2 Theodore Jacobs, US3 Susan Loden, UK4 Alfred Ribi, Switzerland5 Pamela L. Donleavy, US6 Grazina Gudaite, Lithuania7 Kerry Kelly and Jack Novick, US8 Penelope Garvey, UK9 Marina Lia, Italy10 Mariângela Mendes de Almeida, Brazil11 Angela Joyce, UK12 Anne Alvarez, UK13 Myriam Perrin, France14 Joan Raphael-Leff, UK15 David Scharff, US16 Alexandra Harrison, US17 Peter Kaufmann and Sarah Mendelsohn, US18 Neil Skolnick, US19 Shelley Doctors, US 20 Ghislaine Boulanger, USConclusion and Further ReflectionsIndex About the Author

Bernd Huppertz, MD, is a physician, neurologist, and psychotherapist, and he has had a private practice in psychoanalysis in Germany since 1998. He has been widely published in the field of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychosomatic medicine.

This book . . . takes a most unusual and interesting approach—writers from a very wide range of contemporary psychoanalytic schools comment on the same cases, drawn from a consistent context. Will our psychoanalytic approaches turn out to be refracted by this lens into a whole range of diversity, perhaps even contradiction? Or will we find out that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? That perhaps when a range of psychoanalysts think about a person, described—crucially—in a particular way by his or her analyst, they tend to converge on certain key concepts and ways of characterizing that person’s core self and identity? Thanks to Dr. Huppertz, we shall see!

• Foreword by Mary Target, PhD, University College, LondonAcknowledgmentsA Note on ConfidentialityIntroduction1 Robert S. Wallerstein, US2 Theodore Jacobs, US3 Susan Loden, UK4 Alfred Ribi, Switzerland5 Pamela L. Donleavy, US6 Grazina Gudaite, Lithuania7 Kerry Kelly and Jack Novick, US8 Penelope Garvey, UK9 Marina Lia, Italy10 Mariângela Mendes de Almeida, Brazil11 Angela Joyce, UK12 Anne Alvarez, UK13 Myriam Perrin, France14 Joan Raphael-Leff, UK15 David Scharff, US16 Alexandra Harrison, US17 Peter Kaufmann and Sarah Mendelsohn, US18 Neil Skolnick, US19 Shelley Doctors, US 20 Ghislaine Boulanger, USConclusion and Further ReflectionsIndex About the Author