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Roger Frie, Ph.D., Psy.D., R. Psych, is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Supervisor and faculty member at the William Alanson White Institute, New York. He is an editorial board member of Psychoanalytic Psychology and has published five books: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Modern Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997); Understanding Experience: Psychotherapy and Postmodernism (Routledge, 2003); Psychotherapy as a Human Science (Duquesne University Press, 2006, with Daniel Burston); Psychological Agency: Theory, Practice and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008); and Beyond Postmodernism: New Perspectives in Clinical Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2009, with Donna Orange).

William J. Coburn, Ph.D., Psy.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, an editorial board member of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and has published Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009, with Nancy VanDerHeide).

Frie, Coburn, Introduction: Experience in Context. Part I: Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts.Frie, Culture and Context: From Individualism to Situated Experience. Cushman, So Who's Asking? Politics, Hermeneutics, and Individuality. Part II: Philosophical Contexts. Orange, Beyond Individualism: Philosophical Contributions of Buber, Gadamer, and Levinas. Stolorow, Individuality in Context: The Relationality of Finitude. Part III: Developmental Contexts.Sugarman, Martin, Persons Acting in a Worldly Context. Fosshage, Development of Individuality within a Systems World. Lachmann, Perspectives on Individuality: From Cells to Selves. Coburn, Conclusion: Recontextualizing Individuality and Therapeutic Action in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.