Mind of One's Own

<p>This collection of papers written over the last six years by Robert Caper focuses on the importance of distinguishing self from object in psychological development.</p><p>Robert Caper demonstrates the importance this psychological disentanglement plays in the therapeutic effect of psychoanalysis.</p><p>In doing so he demonstrates what differentiates the practice of psychoanalysis from psychotherapy; while psychotherapy aims to ease the patient towards good mental health through careful suggestion; psychoanalysis allows the patient to discover him/herself with the self wholly distinguished from other people and other objects.</p>