A landmark, paradigm-shifting, life-improving tool, "Make the Leap" does for the idea of patterns what Gail Sheehy's book did for passages. In clear, no-nonsense language, longtime and leading psychoanalyst and teacher Farrell Silverberg brilliantly distills the key psychoanalytic principles about why people fall into the rut of unproductive patterns. And he presents a totally original yet simple and accessible step-by-step plan for how to break these patterns, once and for all. Drawing on many of the author's riveting, illuminative cases in his over twenty-five years of experience as a practicing analyst, Silverberg offers a supremely effective and revolutionary tool--one that will help turn all readers who feel they have potential but can't make the leap to living up to it into people who are in charge of their lives and fulfilling their potential.