Culture - Surprise and the Psychoanalyst.

Psychodyn Psychiatry

Training and Supervising Analyst in Child and Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor part time, Harvard Medical School, at the Cambridge Health Alliance; CEO of Supporting Child Caregivers, Inc.; and Core Faculty, University of Massachusetts, Boston Infant Parent Mental Health Post Graduate Certificate Training Program.

Published: February 2022

The author describes how an immersion experience in another culture can benefit the psychoanalyst-and the individual who is a psychoanalyst-by confronting trusted theories and challenging the analyst to create new methods for understanding basic aspects of human experience, such as the meaning of the "self."

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