Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Past Issues

Past Issues of Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Volume 5, Number 2

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An impassioned and creative discussion ensues when four distinguished panelists (Elsa First, Judith Kuspit, Fayek Nakhla, Murray Schwartz) come together and engage in serious " play" with Winnicott's ideas.

The Italian analyst Almatea Usuelli Kluzer offers a thoughtful commentary on the Winnicott Roundtable that focuses on Winnicott's innovative departures from Freudian and Kleinian formulations, the absence of the father in Winnicott, the status and relationship between illusion and reality, Winnicott's preoccupation with madness and his relationship with Masud Khan.

Michael Eigen eloquently elaborates on Winnicott's notion of "pre-dependent aloneness", an aloneness before dependence is recognized, embedded in a matrix of unknown support, leaving in its wake, according to Eigen, an unconscious sense of boundlessness.

The British child psychoanalytic psychotherapist Monica Lanyado explores the resonances between meditative states and certain moments in treatment. Her sensitive clinical example of an adolescent girl illustrates these resonances and how this ultimately enabled the patient to develop a capacity to play and move away from past traumas.

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Volume 5, Number 1

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Volume 5, Number 1 is an issue that will appeal to a broad range of interests. The issue opens with thoughtful and heartfelt reviews of the Roundtable Discussion "Last Witnesses: Child survivors of the Holocaust," the feature article of Volume 4, Number 2. The reviewers include Anna Ornstein, MD, Robert Krell, MD, Peggy Reubens, LCSW and Eva Fogelman, PhD.

Scholarly papers include contributions on trauma and its impact on psychic structure by Elizabeth Howell, PhD, an interesting paper exploring treating substance abuse by combining a relational psychoanalytic model of treatment with the Harm Reduction model authored by Debra Rothchild, PhD. Following this paper, Diane M. Churchill, PhD, LCSW, CASAC offers a thoughtful critique on blending paradigms in the treatment of substance abuse. This section of contributions concludes with a paper entitled "Enhancing Psychoanalysis: A Case of Integrating EMDR by Jennifer Leighton LCSW.

Our Creative Literary Arts section presents two poems on madness. In the Private Lives section Anja Behm, LCSW, a native of East Germany, offers a moving account of her work with concentration camp survivors and the feelings of sadness, guilt and healing that she found herself confronted with.

Valerie Oltarsh-McCarthy, LCSW, MPH offers a review of the film "Vivienne's Songbook" by Ofra Bloch, LCSW. Ms. Oltarsh-McCarthy's review includes a review of the panel discussion led by Eric Mendelshon, PhD and also included Margaret Black, LCSW, Sue Grand, PhD, and Irwin Hirsch PhD.

Our issue concludes with a review of Owen Renik's recent book "Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients" by Kenneth A. Frank, PhD. In his typically scholarly style, Dr. Frank locates and analyzes Renik's strengths as an analyst and thinker. Frank places the book in perspective with his discussion of the theoretical shift from a one person model to a two person model that was part of the relational turn in psychoanalytic theory and praxis.

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Volume 4, Number 2

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This issue features a roundtable discussion entitled “Last Witnesses: Child Survivors of the Holocaust.” It is a heartfelt and profound discussion by panelists Eva Metzger Brown, Ph.D.; Dori Laub, M.D.; Clemens Loew, Ph.D. and Sophia Richman, Ph.D., who discuss their experiences as survivors, patients, therapists and parents. The roundtable was inspired by the paper, “A Child Survivor Comes Out of Hiding: Two Stories of Trauma,” by Eva Metzger Brown, which appears in the issue along with discussions of Ionas Sapountzis’ “The Scarred Rapper and the Poems of Always” (Vol. 4 #1) by Neil Altman and Sarah Hill.

Our Creative and Literary Arts section presents poems and short fiction dedicated to the theme of presence and absence and loss, and the debut of our new “Private Lives” section, featuring personal memoirs, with Clem Loew’s story, “The Apron.”

The issue ends with an interesting and comprehensive review essay of “Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self” by Fonagy, Target, Gergley and Jurist; “Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self” by Alan Schore; and “Affect Dysregulation and the Disorders of the Self” by Alan Schore.

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Volume 4, Number 1: Fall/Winter 2006

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This issue features a special collaborative roundtable on spirituality/religion and psychoanalysis, co-sponsored by the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL). Panelists Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard, Marie Hoffman, Therese Ragen, Jeremy Safran, and Rabbi Dennis Shulman, and moderators Amanda Hirsch Geffner and Rabbi Irwin Kula, ponder the place of spirituality/religion within, or in relation to, psychoanalysis and vice versa. A diverse sampling of reactions to the roundtable are to be found in written discussions by Amber Haque, Elliot Jurist and Henry Grayson, followed by brief responses from the original panelists.

Also, the discussion of Kenneth Frank’s article, “Toward Conceptualizing the Personal Relationship in Therapeutic Action Beyond the ‘Real’ Relationship” (Vol. 3 #1), continues with a discussion by David Brand and the author’s response.

The multi-issue “Diversity” section presents Ionas Sapountzis’ moving and courageously honest paper, “the Scarred Rapper and the Poems of Always,” which will be discussed by Neil Altman and Sarah Hill in Volume 4 #2.

The “Creative Literary Arts” section explores through a varied selection of poems, the connection between writing and sanity/insanity.
A review of the film “Crash,” by Elizabeth Reich, and a review by Judith Kaufman of Eric Sherman’s book “Notes From the Margins: The Gay Analyst’s Subjectivity in the Treatment Setting.”

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Volume 3, Number 2: Spring/Summer 2006

In this issue, Paul L. Wachtel continues an ongoing discussion of Kenneth Frank’s article in Volume 3, Number 1, on “Toward Conceptualizing the Personal Relationship in Therapeutic Action: Beyond the ‘Real’ Relationship”; and Frank responds.

A special section on “Diversity” includes essays by Robert Grossmark (“Step Across This Line: A Personal Reflection on the Diverse Experience”) and Neil Altman (“How Psychoanalysis Became White in the United States and How That Might Change”); and a paper by Glenys Lobban on "Immigration and Dissociation".

The successful “Creative Literary Arts” section includes works by Rodger Kamenetz, Nicole Cooley, Biljana D. Obradovic and Bill Lavender (among others).

Papers that follow include: “The Loudness of the Unspoken: Candidates’ Anxiety in Supervision” by Esther Hanoch; and “Aspects of Angst in Analytic Supervision; A Candidate Weighs In” by Melissa Secrest. The latter is then discussed by Sabert Basescu and Esther Hanoch.

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Volume 3, Number 1: Fall/Winter 2005

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Volume 3, Number 1 includes reader responses from Thomas Ogden, Warren Wilner and Elizabeth Goren. Peggy Reubens addresses “When Catastrophe Strikes: Considerations for Psychoanalysis in Post-9/11 America"; and Kenneth Frank writes about “The Personal Relationship” in “Toward Conceptualizing the Personal Relationship in Therapeutic Action: Beyond the 'Real' Relationship”.

The “Creative Literary Arts” section includes the innovative “Poems by People in Analysis”, from Alison Beynon, Felicity Frisbe, Adam Shechter, and many others.

A “New Voices” section introduces Marc A. Sholes, followed by a fascinating dialogue between Scholes and Eric Mendelsohn. Warren Wilner then writes on Dissociation and Association in “Dissociation as Dis-Associating from One's Associations: An Experiential Perspective on the Issues of Dissociation and Enactment in Psychoanalytic Therapy”.

Book Reviews by David Altfeld (“The Technique of Group Treatment: The Collected Papers of Louis R. Ormont, Ph.D.”) and Art Baur (“Between Emotion and Cognition: The Generative Unconscious”, by Joseph Newirth) follow.

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Volume 2, Number 2: Spring/Summer 2005

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Volume 2, Number 2 opens with commentary by Lynne Layton on the roundtable, "Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalyis?" from Volume 2, Number 1.

After Beth Dorfman's intriguing interview into the mind of Lew Aron, Judith Becker Greenwald introduces a series of articles and commentaries on the topic of trauma by such notable writers as Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Michael Clifford and Elizabeth Goren.

Intersubjectivity is addressed in Ionas Sapountzis' article, "From the Crumbs of a Cookie: The Poetics of the Subjective in the Therapeutic Encounter," followed by Creative Literary Arts: "The Day of Michelangelo," a work of fiction by Bonnie Zindel, and "My Body Grew on Me," a poem by Esther Hanoch.

The Book Review in this issue is by Elizabeth Krimendahl, on "Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents," by Etty Cohen.

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Volume 2, Number 1: Fall/Winter 2004

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In Volume 2, Number 1, don’t miss the exciting roundtable discussion “Is Politics the Last Taboo in Psychoanalysis?” with Neil Altman, Jessica Benjamin, Ted Jacobs and Paul Wachtel. Discussants include Muriel Dimen, Amanda Hirsch Geffner, Andrew Samuels, and Cleonie White.

This piece is followed by “Remote Control: Mothers, Sons, and Subjectivity,” an article by leading feminist psychoanalyst Luise Eichenbaum; original poems by Thomas Ogden and Emily Ogden; a book review on Psychoanalysis and Buddhism by Kenneth Porter, a spiritually oriented psychoanalyst; and an engrossing review of N.I.P.T.I.’s conference on Shame and Sexuality by Ronnie Levine.

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Volume 1, Number 1: November/December 2003

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The inaugural issue of Psychoanalytic Perspectives was published in late 2003.

The revealing "Honesty and Dishonesty in the Consulting Room" by Owen Renik, M.D., is followed by responses from Joyce Slochower, Ph.D. and Warren Wilner, Ph.D.; an interview with James L Fosshage, Ph.D., complements Fosshage's reflections on "What is a Psychoanalytic Relationship?" and "How Does it Effectuate Change?".

Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Ph. D, then reflects on the aftermath of September 11, 2001, in "When the Trauma is Terrorism and the Analyst is Traumatized too: Working as an Analyst Since 9/11" (entire article available online). Reactions to this provocative piece will be featured in an upcoming issue of Psychoanalytic Perspectives.

In addition to offering creative pieces by Bonnie Zindel, M.S.W., Rachel Newcombe, M.S.W. and James LoParo, Volume 1, Number 1 also includes the journal's Editorial Philosophy and "The Evolution of N.I.P. in a Historical Context: A Founder's Perspective" by Clemens Loew, Ph.D.