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Stephen Purcell is a psychoanalyst currently living and working in Portland, Oregon; before moving to Portland in 2022, he practiced in San Francisco. He has an eclectic theoretical background and is a faculty member at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Center, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. Dr. Purcell has published book chapters on dissociation and papers on a range of topics that include a professional memoir,theory as a source of countertransference, technique in the treatment of perverse character structures, the clinical impact of the analyst’s attitude toward pharmacotherapy, the analyst’s way of being in the treatment of trauma, dissociation, andtermination. His current interests include the sequelae of early relational trauma and the non-verbal aspects of therapeutic process in their treatment; and his most recent paper is titled “Un-thinking Technique: On Being, Not Doing in the Psychoanalysis of the Sequelae of Trauma. ”