Illuminating the moon: Discussion of Alyson Kepple’s “Exploring, claiming and expanding the frontiers of an emerging self”

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSteven SternSteven Stern is a faculty member, teacher and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (NYC), and is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Maine Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine. He is a former member of the International Council of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context. He has been a frequent contributor to the contemporary psychoanalytic literature, with a particular interest in theoretical integration. His book, Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process was published by Routledge in 2017 in the “Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series.” A second book, Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing is in preparation, also for publication by Routledge. Dr. Stern practices in Portland, ME with specializations in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, couples therapy, clinical supervision and consultation.