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Re-learning from teaching: a personal reflection on Jeremy Safran’s legacy

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Jeremy Safran’s pedagogical style was singular in its emphasis on experiential learning through role-plays, use of session video recordings, and his full-hearted embrace of therapists’ subjectivity as a tool for therapeutic change. This paper is a personal reflection on the author’s experiences as Jeremy Safran’s student and how they have translated into her own teaching and supervision. She shares how teaching has been a means of reconnecting with her experiences learning from Jeremy, and the ways in which she tries to carry forward his unique contributions to the next generation of students and trainees.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, California Pacific Medical Center, 601 Duboce Avenue, Suite 250, South Tower, San Francisco, CA, 94114, USA

    Madeleine Miller-Bottome

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This paper is part of the Special Issue, Remembering Jeremy Safran: Continuing the Conversation, Guest Edited by Drs. Ali Shames-Dawson and Adrienne Harris (Vol. 84, issue 3). Address correspondence to: Madeleine Miller-Bottome, PhD, California Pacific Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 601 Duboce Avenue, Suite 250, South Tower, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Email: dr.madeleinemb@gmail.com.

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Miller-Bottome, M. Re-learning from teaching: a personal reflection on Jeremy Safran’s legacy. Am J Psychoanal 84, 466–470 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-024-09473-7

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