Harry Paul: This playful and evocative title reflects the work and commitment of two I’s – my patient Wendy and myself – to find ourselves. For me it was a shift and change in my narrative of origin and a more fully developed I, more grounded in myself, as I better understood myself through our intersubjective engagement, and for Wendy, it was a developed narrative of her life, a capacity for self-reflection, to have an I that became undifferentiated and known to her and me through our intersubjective space. The I’s in this We, are more fully defined, more grounded in themselves, more separate and at the same time more individuated, distilled and connected. This paper will focus on the constantly changing intersubjective between Wendy and myself, and using the language of Intersubjective Self Psychology discuss those rarely mentioned intersubjective moments when I begin to retreat into my trailing edge and the patient, holding on to her own self and her leading edge, helps us to regain our footing.
 
Laura D’Angelo will discuss the paper and then we’ll invite discussion from everyone.
 
Two Continuing Education Credits for NYS social workers, psychoanalysts, and psychologists.
Harry Paul

Harry Paul

Harry Paul, PhD is a founding member, past president, faculty and supervising and training analyst at the Training and Research Institute in Self Psychology in New York City. He is a board and faculty member at the Training and Research Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation and a member of the International Council of IAPSP. He is the co-author of The Self Psychology of Addiction and Its Treatment: Narcissus in Wonderland and most recently co-edited and contributed to Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer, edited by Hagman, Paul, and Zimmermann, Routledge, 2019. He has authored numerous articles on self psychology, intersubjective self psychology, and addiction. He is in private practice in New York City and in Chappaqua, New York.

Laura D'Angelo

Laura D'Angelo

Laura D’Angelo, MDiv, LP, is a psychoanalyst in the Wall Street area who works with individuals, couples and groups. She is on the faculty at the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology in New York City (TRISP) and the National Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP). She is a writer with credits in national magazines, newspapers as well as academic and psychoanalytic journals. She is a contributing author to Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer that was published by Routledge in 2019.

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