In this advanced level presentation, I describe the treatment of a suicidally depressed middle-aged man. It was an unusual case in which I accompanied the patient to London to see a production of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials at the National Theater. The literary trilogy that was adapted for the stage had become a vital touchstone for our therapeutic work. Time permitting, I will discuss the audience members' reactions to this case when it was presented as the Keynote speech at the annual meeting of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology in Chicago.

Jeffrey Stern, PhD, is a research and clinical graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he is a training and supervising analyst and recent past President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. Dr. Stern received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in English Literature, where his dissertation on Shakespeare's late romances won the Humanities Prize. He has been a lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago where he won the teaching award, and has also lectured at the University of Chicago in the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities. Dr. Stern is, in addition, Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis at Wuhan University in Wuhan, China. In 2017 he was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He writes on self psychology, literature and film. A volume of his papers is forthcoming next year from Routledge. He maintains a private practice in Chicago and throughout the world online.

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