ABSTRACT
Rio Negro and Amazon River, these two meetings of waters serve as a backdrop for this chapter. In which the chapter explores and highlights key experiences that served as precursors to shape, mold, and eventually transform the trajectory of analytic identity. The chapter presents an attempt to pull together different strands of sociocultural and political influences that once merged and have now emerged in the ongoing consolidation of her analytic identity. The transformation of a therapist who thinks dynamically and works with a certain theoretical and technical perspective is eventually an amalgamation of many internal and external forces that impact the individual during the course of their training and beyond. Much has been written about the analytic identity that continues to evolve long after one has completed training with thoughtful discourse on the role of challenging life events, the widening scope of analysis, the surge of relational and intersubjective thinking in theory and technique.
