Historical Context in Clinical Work: Commentary on Franco Borgogno's “On the Patient's Becoming an Individual”

I consider the psychoanalytic significance of taking account of the historical context, across generations, in which the emotional lives of analysands take shape. * “On the Patient's Becoming an Individual: The Importance of the Analyst's Personal Response to a Deprived Patient and Her Dreams” by Franco Borgogno (2004) appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (14/4).