Ever since identity became established as a key explanatory concept in political discourse, its slow but steady increase of influence within the fields of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis leads to questions about its meaning. Apart from its political connotations, what does identity mean within psychotherapy when it comes to the self? And how it can be useful in therapeutic work – or when can it get in the way of understanding? Is it a uniform concept we refer to? Or do we need to separate out different meanings of identity?
