In this talk, Margaret Bluhm will present her work with her patient, someone who suffered multiple losses resulting in a retreat that culminated in profound social isolation during the COVID 19 pandemic. In this therapy the shared development of a generative twinship tie supported and reinforced the patient’s ambitions to return to a creative life and a devoted community.  In particular, the characteristics of the world shared by both patient and therapist constituted the twinship tie which enabled the patient to experience himself and his renewed community ties as sources of generativity beyond the psychotherapy relationship. The return to community enabled the patient to revisit the losses and finally begin a process of mourning.  This case will illustrate the value of working from the perspective of Intersubjective Self Psychology, an orientation which allowed the patient to address early ruptures in selfobject experience as well as experience the generative potential in an enduring selfobject tie.  Peter Zimmermann will provide a discussion of the case, after which we will open the floor to comments and questions.  Please join us.