Current Issue: Volume 6, Number 1

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Violence and Aggression in the Consulting Room
A lively and intelligent discussion of violence as it confronts therapists in their offices. Three brilliant--and vocal--analysts and authors, Sue Grand, PhD, Joseph Newirth, PhD, and Abby Stein, PhD, explore the issue both as therapists and, in one case, as a researcher into the dark consciousness of violent felons.

Rediscovering Psychoanalysis
By Thomas H. Ogden, MD
In this excerpt from his most recent book, Ogden looks at the question of being with and talking with patients in that he talks with each patient in a way that is utterly unique to that patient. He also talks about supervision and analytic reading and writing, all in terms of “dreaming up” psychoanalysis. Writing about analytic works, poetry, and other imaginative literature is the way he continues to rediscover psychoanalysis.

Meeting Beyond the Frame: Extraordinary Demands and Analytic Choices
By Linda Jacobs, PhD
By sharing extensive case material and her own relevant personal history, the author explores the influence of the analyst’s subjectivity on clinical choices and interventions. Challenges to the frame and other important issues are explored.

The Parallel Paths of Psychoanalysis and Spirituality: Convergences, Divergences, Transformation
By Shelle Goldstein, LCSW
The author views psychoanalysis, religion and spirituality as parallel paths of transformation. When patients feel healed, especially in the context of a relational treatment that allows for the creation of an intersubjective, third space, psychoanalysis may be experienced as a sacred journey.

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