Main description:

This book describes the personal journey of a collection of contributors, detailing their pathways to becoming psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, with insights from many of the most interesting analysts in the field.

The history of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy indicates that the pioneers were individuals who came from different pathways, such as medicine, law, education, and art. The integration of men and women with different educational and career backgrounds enhance the intellectual and clinical evolution of the field. Here, Arnold Rachman and Harold Kooden have invited a diverse group of practicing clinicians to demonstrate that psychoanalysis and psychotherapy continues to welcome and integrate individuals with a wide variety of intellectual interests and atypical career pathways.

In showing how varied and personalized the route into analysis can be, this book will be of great interest to clinicians of all levels and experience, and will offer inspiration to those just entering the profession.

Contents:

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

PROLOGUE: Different Paths Towards Becoming a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist: Personal Passions, Subjective Experiences and Unusual Journeys:, Arnold Wm. Rachman and Harold Kooden

My Traumatic Journey Towards Becoming A Psychoanalyst: From Phenomenology and Person-Centered Psychotherapy to Sandor Ferenczi and the Budapest School to Relational Psychoanalysts, Arnold Wm. Rachman

Comprehending: Harnessing oblique defiance in the formation of an analyst, Fergal Brady

Family Gifts and the Artful Practitioner: A Journey of Personal, Professional and Artistic Growth , Alan D. Entin

Imagining the Impossible: Creativity in Psychoanalytic Practice, Dan Gilhooley

My Dual Journey:An Autobiographical Account, Henry Kellerman

Improvisational Play For A Psychoanalyst-Musician, Robert J. Marshall

A Parisienne's Passage Through An American Psychoanalytic World Robert J. Marshall for Simone V. Marshall

How I became a psychoanalyst : From Shakespeare to Psychoanalysis, from Freud and Lacan to Ferenczi and beyond, Clara Mucci

Journey to Peace and Love: From Priest to Psychoanalyst, Benito Perri

Wilderness and Psychoanalysis: A Journey of Aesthetics, Desire, and Ethics, Joseph Scalia III

My Path to and within Psychoanalysis, Frank Yeomans

The Scarecrow's Search For A Brain: A Gay Man's Odessey For Validation As A Psychotherapist, Harold Kooden

CONCLUSION: Melvin Bornstein

INDEX