Main description:

Steiner is a key figure in contemporary Kleinian circles * Identity is a key topic throughout psychoanalysis * Includes contributions from internationally renowned analysts

Contents:

Introduction 1. An Outline of the Kleinian Model of the Mind and its Implications for the Understanding of Personal Identity 2. Identification and Pathological Identification: Implications for Identity 3. The Cerebral Mind versus the Body Mind: Containing and Recovering Unknown Parts of the Self 4. Orientation, Disorientation and Identity Development: an Illustration from Dante's Divine Comedy 5. A Mind of One's Own: the Growth of Identity in an Adult Patient 6. Failure to Mourn: Idealization, Illusion and Identity 7. Identity and the Struggle to "be" in the Face of Distorting Projections from an Ill Object 8. A Lost Child: the Failure to Develop an Identity 9. Forming an Identity: from Somatisation and Hypochondriasis to Hysteria and Beyond 10. 'If you are not my mum, who are you?': A Woman's Analytic Journey from Melancholic Identification to an Identity of her Own 11. Liquid Fear and a Dissolving Identity 12. Identity as the Threads of Meaning Through a Person's Life