"In his book, The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults."—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches."—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

• Prologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.

"In his book, The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults."—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches."—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

• Prologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.

"In his book, The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Dr. Carol Strenger, a philosopher, psychologist, and analyst, presents us with his vision of psychoanalysis from his work in an Israeli urban society with the segment of the population known as Generation X. His case presentations illustrate the divide between the generations and their cultures....this is a well written and enjoyable work to be recommended to all who work with patients, especially, those who work with young adults."—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"There are many excellent features in this book. Strenger is clearly comfortable with philosophical traditions from Nietzsche to Derrida, Rorty to Sloterdijk. He is authoritative in his handling of a variety of psychoanalytic practices from Freud through Lacan to the intersubjective and relational approaches."—International Journal of Psychoanalysis

• Prologue: The Designed Self in the Global Village. The Self as Perpetual Experiment. Nobrow: Forming an Identity in an Urban Culture. The Bobo Dilemma. Failing Fathers, Failing Sons. Finding Ethnic Identity and a Place in Western Society. Psychoanalysis in the Age of the Designed Self. Epilogue: Requiem to the Dream of Metaphysical Depth.