Books by Roger Kennedy

A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis in his own life, he begins to write fictional stories loosely based upon his patients' stories. This is a work of pure fiction, for the psychoanalyst and the patients are imaginary.

A psychoanalyst sits in his consulting room. Thoughts, feelings and anxieties about his current life begin to assault him. Partly as a way of dealing with the crisis in his own life, he begins to write fictional stories loosely based upon his patients' stories. This is a work of pure fiction, for the psychoanalyst and the patients are imaginary.

Provides insights into the development of psychoanalytic identity, taking into account the various influences which shape the psychoanalytic voice and drawing on literature, philosophy and sociology. This book is intended for practicing psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and other mental health workers.

Roger Kennedy draws on his own clinical work to shed light on conceptions of freedom and how they relate to the psychoanalytic process. Ideas from ancient, medieval, 17th-century, Enlightenment and recent philosophy, including hermeneutics, are employed in his explorations.