Thomas Ogden
American psychoanalyst. Known for the notion of the analytic third and his explorations of primitive areas of experience.
Books
- The Primitive Edge of Experience (1989)
Ogden explores the most archaic areas of psychic experience — the autistic-contiguous position — and how they appear in the analytic relationship.
- Subjects of Analysis (1994)
Ogden develops the notion of the analytic third — the intersubjective space co-created by analyst and patient — as the engine of therapeutic transformation.