Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

Presenter, Derek Hook will highlight multiple facets of the drive - amongst which is, of course, a type of relationality arguably inherent in the concept - and do so accessibly, via Freud's work, so as to highlight opportunities for case formulation.

Derek Hook will utilize Freud's 'Three Essays on Sexuality' as a means of tracking various drive phenomena as of crucial importance in the symptoms, identifications, modes of jouissance, relations, transference and repressed fantasies of an analysand

A focus of James W. Anderson’s book on psychobiography is his exploration of how the authors’ relationship with the people written about impacts the biographical account.