Steven Kuchuck is a faculty member, supervisor, and is on the Board of Directors at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is a practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, New York. He is also co-editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Perspectives and Associate Editor of the Relational Perspectives Book Series published by Routledge.

This book explores how psychoanalysts and psychotherapists address the phenomena of their personal life and psychology in the clinical context.

Kuchuck, Introduction. Part I: Early Life Events, Crises, and Influences. Bjorklund, How Betty and Vincent Became Sally and Scott. Orbach. I Wanted the Stuff of Secrets to Be in the Light. Atlas, Sex, Lies and Psychoanalysis. Slochower. The Professional Idiom and the Psychoanalytic Other. Hirsch. Emerging from the Oppositional and the Negative. Frank. Out from Hiding. Ornstein, Reflections on the Development of My Analytic Subjectivity. Ullman,The Personal Is Political, the Political Is Personal: On the Subjectivity of an Israeli Psychoanalyst. Sherman, Sweet Dreams Are Made of These: Or, How I Came Out and Came into My Own. Part II: Later Life Events, Crises, and Developmental Passages. Eigen, Moments That Count. Kuchuck, Guess Who's Going to Dinner? On the Arrival of the Uninvited Third. Ringstrom, Becoming an Analyst: At Play in Three Acts. Glassman, Botticelli, Perspectives on Gay Fatherhood: Emotional Legacies and Clinical Reverberations. Grill, The Importance of Fathers. Mendelsohn, Working Through Separation: Personal and Clinical Reflections. Zindel, A Bird That Thunders: An Analysis with Emmanuel Ghent. Pines, Stroke and the Fracturing of the Self: Rebuilding a Life and a Practice. Bergmann, Psychoanalysis in Old Age: the Patient and the Analyst