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A Mind of One's Own is at once a classic turn of phrase, a core Kleinian idea, and an enviable possession In the early papers, one's mind is one's own when unclouded by a mode of thought characterized by blaming and delusional attribution of causality Caper develops the relation between that kind of clarity and the clarity of distinction between self and other achieved by minimizing projection and projective identification A second line of thought in the book concerns the question of having a mind at all, as compared to having a repository of reactivity based on neural traces of experience—and of what it is that the analyst does that enables this mind to come into being
Most of the chapters in this book have been previously published as free-standing