In this workshop, George Hagman will tell the story of his public career as a psychoanalyst and social worker. Beyond private practice, he will describe his work in a variety of community settings ranging from homeless outreach, to methadone maintenance, community mental health and crisis intervention. Various clinical challenges will be discussed, such as severe mental illness, addiction, AIDS, forensics, and school violence. He will explore how an expanded and open approach to analytic practice informed his clinical and managerial thinking, interventions and relationships. In particular, he will show how Intersubjective Self Psychology became increasingly important to his clinical and managerial approach across a range of communities, service types and treatment modalities. The central idea guiding his story is the flexibility and usefulness of Intersubjective Self Psychology for an analytic practitioner who ventures out from his or her private office to seek a career in public service.