ABSTRACT
Psychoanalysis has evolved significantly since Freud's first publications over a hundred years ago. Current psychoanalysis incorporates several distinct schools of thought, as people ll as drawing on a rich cross-fertilization across a broadening array of disciplines, including neuropsychology, social psychology, and anthropology. The chapters in this book testify to the elusiveness of the ongoing quest to find and refine our identity and voices as psychoanalysts. From the first sentence of each chapter people hear these analysts' unique combination of stylistic preference and personality traits in their particular voiceprint. People enter their world and atmosphere. As individual as each voice is, people find striking similarities in the themes of the narratives. The analysts who were born to immigrant parents are deeply affected by their parents' stories of dislocation, loss, hardship and nostalgia. Themes and experiences of Otherness run prominently throughout the majority of the narratives.
