My Psychoanalytic Path: Traversing the Thicket of Institutional Leadership: Selected Papers Harriety Basseches

"Dr. Basseches leads us through her writing on major psychoanalytic topics offering depth, understanding, and an invitation to learn and think with her. This reader includes a stunning array of articles concerning the essence of psychoanalysis and the way leadership matters-a book you really want to read and will be happy you did. It is a joy to be with Harriet."-NANCY GOODMAN, Training & Supervising Analyst, Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington, DC' "This book presents in an engaging way the formative and institutional adventure of an experienced psychoanalyst, capable of sharing with her colleagues the complexity, richness, and difficulties of a job that cannot be done alone. Through her account of some of the major changes that have taken place in the history of our profession, moving from the specific context of North America to the broader field of the International Psychoanalytical Association (with particular reference to her contribution to the spread of psychoanalysis in emerging countries in other regions), Harriet Basseches also offers potential future analysts a historical and human perspective on psychoanalysis as a living science and profession that changes and evolves but maintains an unmistakable theoretical and clinical framework that profoundly distinguishes it from all other forms of psychotherapeutic treatment."-STEFANO BOLOGNINI, Past President of the International Psychoanalytical Association