Every day, clinicians encounter challenges to empathy and communication while struggling to assist patients with diverse life histories, character, sexuality, gender, psychopathology, cultural, religious, political, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Most writing pertaining to ideas of similarity, discrepancy, and 'the Other' has highlighted differences. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity and Difference: Navigating the Divide offers a different focus, emphasising points of contact, connection, and how divisions between people can be transcended.

Brent Willock is President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Board Member of the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and on the faculty of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology.

Rebecca Coleman Curtis is Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University, Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute and Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Lori C. Bohm is Supervising Analyst, Faculty and former Director at the Center for Applied Psychoanalysis and Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Programs at the William Alanson White Institute. She is Psychotherapy Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the City University of New York.

Introduction Lori C. Bohm

THE INTERNAL EXPERIENCE OF LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN THE PATIENT

Chapter 1: Identifying/Disidentifying Brent Willock

Chapter 2: Negotiating the Different/Alike Divide in the Treatment of Shame Gladys Guarton

Chapter 3: The Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood in Psychotic Patients and their Families: A Framework for Assessing Recovery Barri Belnap

Chapter 4: Neuroticism is the Way Home Mark Egit

Chapter 5 An Unpublishable Paper Harriette Kaley

THE WORK OF THE THERAPIST TO FIND HIM OR HERSELF IN THE PATIENT

Chapter 6 Reluctance to Finding Myself in the Other: Treating an Alleged Pedophile Susan Kolod

Chapter 7 On Intersubjective Firsts in the Analytic Third: Becoming a Subject in the Presence of the Other Ionas Sapountzis

CULTURAL, RACIAL, AND COGNITIVE/EMOTIONAL DIVIDES

Chapter 8 Our Not-so-hidden Shame: Lack of Ethnic Diversity in the Field of Psychoanalysis John O'Leary

Chapter 9 Finding their way Home: The Struggle of the Australian Aboriginal People to Become One People within One Janice A. Walters

Chapter 10 The Autistic Core in Aboriginal Trauma: Breaking Down or Breaking Out of the Autistic Defence Norma Tracey

Chapter 11 A Bi-Cultural Approach to Working Together: A Conversation about Cultural Supervision Trudy Ake & Sarah Calvert

Chapter 12 Identity amongst Differences: A Personal Account of a Pakeha Psychologist Working in a New Zealand Maori Mental Health Service Ingo Lambrecht

Chapter 13 The Good Son: Psychotherapy with a 65-year-old Man with the Diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome Susan Rose

Chapter 14 Creativity, Identity, and Social Exclusion: Working with Traumatized Individuals Marilyn Charles

INTERNAL EXPERIENCE OF LIKENESS AND DIFFERENCE IN THE THERAPIST

Chapter 15 An autobiographical account of the analysis of an analyst who endured complex childhood trauma Johanna Tiemann

Chapter 16 Same Old Story? Consistency and Change in the Analyst's Work over Time Michael Stern

Chapter 17 The Analyst as Patient: Working from Both Sides of the Divide Emily Fucheck

Chapter 18 The Contrapuntal Play of Paradox: Likeness and Difference in the Theories of Otto Rank Claude Barbre

Conclusions Rebecca Coleman Curtis