Voice of the Analyst

Linda Hillman, PhD, practices as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City and Westchester County. She treats adults, adolescents, children, and couples. She is a Clinical Supervisor for the City University of New York, and a member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has published on the psychological implications of teaching writing as well as co-authored several papers on group relations. She is also a published poet and has played leadership roles in a number of volunteer community organizations focused on youth, mental health, and education.Therese Rosenblatt, PhD, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Westchester County, New York. She treats adults, children, adolescents, couples and families. She leads parenting groups privately and at the Early Childhood Development Center in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is Adjunct Clinical Supervisor at Yeshiva University and Pace University in New York and an active member of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

• 1 Prelude NARRATIVES 2 All Origins are Suspect: Becoming a Psychoanalyst Francisco González 3 From Ebbets Field to Eighty-Second Street: Finding My Way Ted Jacobs 4 Psychoanalysis and Me Lissa Weinstein 5 The Voice Endures Mitchell Wilson 6 Becoming Myself: Resuming a Derailed Adolescence Therese Rosenblatt 7 Becoming a Psychoanalyst Jack Drescher 8 Hiding in Plain Sight Linda Hillman 9 Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat (or How I became a Psychoanalyst) Carolyn Ellman 10 Developmental Struggles in Psychoanalytic Training: Developing a Psychoanalytic Identity Jonathan Eger 11 How We Describe What we Remember Rachel Altstein 12 My Psychoanalytic Self: Discovery, Embrace, and Ongoing Formation Dorothy Evans Holmes 13 Untranslatables Spyros Orfanos REFLECTIONS by the Editors 14 Themes and Variations 15 Rethinking Psychoanalytic Training and Beyond 16 Coda

"Among the most significant shifts in the recent history of psychoanalysis is the recognition that it is a personal, subjective, and intersubjective endeavor rather than an objective instrument applied with technical rationality by a neutral expert. This emphasis on the therapist’s character and subjectivity has significant implications for psychoanalytic education and for the ongoing development of the analyst. In this inspired collection, Linda Hillman and Therese Rosenblatt have brought together a variety of clinicians whose rich and diverse narratives reflect on their personal development as analysts. The Voice of the Analyst will be of interest to all of us who love psychoanalysis and are concerned with the formation of analytic identity, and it will be essential reading for those pursuing, providing, or considering psychoanalytic training as a lifelong form of continuing professional education and personal growth."-Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis."This is a wonderful book! It is a treasure trove of deeply considered personal narratives, replete with insight, humanity, and modesty. The reader is transported from culture to culture, through different historical periods, fields of inquiry, and into varied economic circumstances through the stories of these twelve psychoanalysts of different ages, nationalities, and theoretical perspectives. Whether it is through the playing of a sport, or the writing of a poem or essay, or a transformational moment in a personal clinical treatment, these authors tell us how they became the psychoanalysts they are – excellently edited and integrated by Drs Hillman and Rosenblatt. It was a treat to read."-Marsha H. Levy-Warren, Ph.D., Faculty and Clinical Consultant, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis