This book is a compilation of essays which honors Norbert Freedman for his work as a psychoanalytic researcher, educator, clinician, and for his service as a mentor and role model. In this collection, psychoanalytic scholars explore the concepts that Freedman developed over his four decades of work: the concept of the mind from a developmental perspective, countertransference and multilingualism, the oedipal complex, and the problems of transference. In particular, this collection focuses on Freedman's long-term central issues: P the symbolization process in analysis and in psychic growth, and the desymbolization process in psychic disorganization and in the disruption of the analytic process.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)