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trained as a historian and is completing studies in psychology. He has published in the Australian Journal of Psychotherapy.
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In an environment that holds the baby well enough, the baby is able to make personal development according to the inherited tendencies. The result is a continuity of existence that becomes a sense of existing, a sense of self, and eventually results in autonomy.
The following account describes the author's experience of such a personal development occurring during a psychoanalysis. Here the autonomy of the self arises within the analyst's provision of a ‘holding environment’.
Always a leaving, always a parting.
The door has closed and walls are falling.
To go on the outside,
to step in the cold sea of the room's edge.
Here are torn sands of whispering eyes —
of no world,
of a beach tossed from the sky
To wait until the next day —
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