Past Issues of Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Volume 8, Number 1
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On Ferenczi: A Response—From Elasticity to the Confusion of Tongues and the Technical
Dimensions of Ferenczi’s Approach
Ferenczi scholar B. William Brennan writes a thoughtful and imaginative reflection on Peter T. H
offer’s article from our Ferenczi issue. It utilizes Brennan’s extensiveknowledge of Ferenczi,
including valuable archival material that has not been examined by anyone other than Brennan. Hoffer offers his
response to the author in a follow up piece.
Countertransference and the Heart of the Heroic: Working with a Journalist from China
Gradiva Award winner, Gladys Foxe, PhD, presents a new paper about the countertransference she confronted in her
treatment of a Chinese dissident and survivor of the Tiananmen Square uprising. Dr. Foxe writes a brilliant and moving
paper about this hero and his efforts to come to terms with an abusive background. In the following two commentaries,
by Sue Grand, PhD, and Alan Roland, PhD, the courage of the young man is discussed, as well as that of the other women
in his life and the depth of the countertransference that Foxe confronts.
The Not-Me and the Loving Self
Eric Mendelsohn, PhD, discusses a difficult, narcissistic patient and a personal tragedy in this moving and beautifully
written article. The challenges he experiences and the surprising interest from the patient show him that one can never
predict the bond that will endure between patient and analyst.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Children with Asperger’s Syndrome: Therapeutic Engagement Through Play
Alan J. Levy, DSW, LCSW, won the 2010 NIP Educator’s Award for this exciting paper in which he presents his theory that a
contemporary psychoanalytic approach may play a unique and effective role in treating children with Asperger’s syndrome,
especially in those cases where there is a true desire to relate to others.
The Wolf Girl
Allison Mazer Katz, LMSW, tells the lively and intelligent story of a clinician-candidate meeting a difficult patient,
whom she had treated at her social work job, before she started training. It was a difficult case then that grew even more
challenging—and burdensome—when it became analysis.
Book Review: "The Inner Life of Boys," A review of Ken Corbett's Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities
This month’s book review is by Sarah Hill, LCSW. “Corbett’s lyrical prose and gift for story-telling, his expansive mind and
norm-busting theorizing, and his deeply felt love for his patients make Boyhoods thoroughly engrossing to read,” she writes.
Creative Literary
Editor Bonnie Zindel includes poems by Michael Milano, Edward McCrorie and Rosalie Calabrese. Also included in this
section is a poetic psychoanalytic essay by Gwyneth Kerr Erwin entitled “Weather,” a measure of how weather plays a part
in the fluctuating emotions of author and patients.
Private Lives
Private Lives Editor Clemens Loew introduces “A Man Called Henry,” by Todd Stansfield which explores the father/son bond
and how some of life’s occurrences can leave us branded forever.
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Arts on the Couch, Volume 7, Number 2
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The Elegant Adaptation: on Creativity in Psychoanalysis and Art – An Interview with Danielle Knafo, PhD
Spyros Orfanos, PhD interviews Danielle Knafo, PhD, one of the leading contemporary voices in psychoanalytic theories
of creativity. Their spirited conversation touches on far-reaching topics like the meaning of art and its relationship
to trauma, the artist and analyst’s creative process, and Knafo’s own prolific work.
Art Lust: Desire and the Work of Picasso and Klimt
Lynne Oliva, MA, MFT, invites the reader into her erotically-charged psychoanalytic world. By analyzing master
painters like Picasso and Klimt, she asks us what we truly see when we look at a work of art. Be
sure to see the color photos here on our website, as they add another dimension to this
stimulating article.
The Great Mistake
Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, is a psychoanalyst and painter who creates art to make sense of the world and survive
in it. In the process, she discovers herself and strengthens the therapeutic relationship with one particular
patient. The two artistic pieces are also displayed in color here on our site.
No One Can Hear Me Scream! The Integration of Expressive Therapy Techniques, Creative Processing
of Countertransference Inductions, and the Use of Metaphor in the Psychoanalytically Oriented Outpatient Treatment
of a Woman Artist with a Schizoaffective Disorder
Sculptor, photographer, creative arts therapist, and psychoanalyst Robert Irwin Wolf, LPsyA, LCAT, ATR-BC provides
us with an intensive case study of a challenging schizoaffective patient. Through the author’s commentary and
accompanying illustrations of the art of both therapist and patient, we witness the integration of creative,
expressive modalities and depth-oriented psychoanalytic treatment. The art in the article as well as additional
art can be seen here on our site.
Lady Gaga’s Penis
In this wonderfully playful piece Robert J. Benton, PhD, LP, explores the psyche of pop sensational persona Lady Gaga.
The author uses YouTube clips, a Radio City Music Hall performance, and self-disclosure to ascertain the nature of
Gaga’s cultural appeal from a personal and psychoanalytic perspective.
“Song of Songs”: Music and a Relational Aesthetic
Here, Spyros Orfanos, PhD, accompanies the reader on a journey to Greece and, with the help of music, to Auschwitz.
He dissects the intersections of song and psychoanalysis using the lenses of country, family, theory, and both
cultural and personal triumph in the face of tragedy. You can hear some of the music that Orfanos disscusses here on our site.
Bob Dylan’s Multiple Self-States: A Wild Analysis
As Hillary Grill, LCSW explains, the soundtrack of her life has been composed by Bob Dylan. Here, she welcomes the
reader inside Dylan’s and her own overlapping psyches as we voyage with the two of them through his folk era, his
rock’n’roll, his born-again Christian period, and his time with the Hasidim: the subterranean homesick Dylan.
Telling the Story: An Interview with A.M. Homes
Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, sits down with novelist and memoirist A.M. Homes to discuss a variety of topics such as
motherhood, adoption, psychoanalysis, and especially the nature of one’s creative process. They engage in a riveting
dialogue about pushing yourself to your limits creatively and analytically.
The Mother, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: An Interview with the Creators of the Pulizer Prize-Winning Musical Next to Normal
In this eye-opening interview, Juliet Ross, PsyD, spends time with composer Tom Kitt and librettist-lyricist Brian Yorkey,
co-creators of the Broadway hit Next to Normal, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She explores their collaborative
process, their take on writing about mental illness, and other dynamics they experienced during the creation and run of this
great show.
An Education: A Study in Dissociation, and Where the Wild Things Are – Film Reviews
In these film reviews, Valerie Oltarsh-McCarthy, LCSW, MPH and Bridgette Vidunas, RN, LCSW turn psychoanalytic
eyes to recent movies, An Education and Where the Wild Things Are. These multilayered films provide the authors
with copious material to explore dissociation, multiplicity, attachment, and other psychoanalytic themes.
Book Review: “Standing in the Spaces” with Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
Susan Guaccero, LCSW, NCPsyA examines Elizabeth Strout’s analytically rich Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive
Kitteridge, which features 13 interwoven short stories revolving around the protagonist Olive.
Creative Literary
Creative Literary editor Bonnie Zindel, LCSW introduces the section by acknowledging the journal’s welcoming
of creative-minded endeavors throughout its history. This particular issue features fine lyrical and prose poetry
from David Austern, MFA, Henry Seiden, PhD, and Kim Bernstein, PhD.
Finding My Range
In this issue’s Private Lives section, Clem Loew, PhD introduces an excerpt from the memoir Blows to the Head:
How Boxing Changed My Mind by Binnie Klein, LCSW. This illuminating piece shows boxer-therapist Klein
finding her ideal range in boxing, therapy, and in life.
Also, for the very first time, Psychoanlytic Perspectives published two topically relevent cartoons,
to round out our Arts on the Couch issue.
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Volume 7, Number 1
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A New (2010) Introduction to Aron and Harris (1993) Sándor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery: An
Introduction to: The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi
Lewis Aron, PhD, and Adrienne Harris, PhD, have written an updated introduction to their classic book exclusively
for Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Out of print for 17 years, The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi has
only recently been republished online.
Sándor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery
Lewis Aron, PhD, and Adrienne Harris, PhD, have given us the rights to publish this first chapter from their
groundbreaking book, The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi.
Origins of a Relational Perspective in the Ideas of Sándor Ferenczi and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Arnold Rachman, PhD, describes Ferenczi’s theoretical and clinical work regarding countertransference, the notion
of a two-person psychology, mutuality, and, at the time, other radical ways of thinking as a predictor of object
relations theory and, the relational school that would emerge some 50 years after his death. His paper reminds us
how crucial Ferenczi was to psychoanalysis.
An Interview with Jeremy Safran on the Founding of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at New School University
Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, talks with Jeremy Safran, PhD, co-chair of the Sándor Ferenczi Center at the New School in
New York. In an interview conducted for this Journal, Safran discusses the founding of the center and how Ferenczi
came to be seen as the father of Relational Psychoanalysis.
Sándor Ferenczi and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis
Judit Meszaros, PhD, gives us insight into Ferenczi’s personal and professional history and his relationship to
the school he started in his home city. Included here are some photos of Ferenczi and colleagues.
From Elasticity to the Confusion of Tongues: A Historical Commentary on the Technical Dimension of
the Freud/Ferenczi Controversy
Peter Hoffer, PhD, sheds light on the conflict between Ferenczi and Freud.
Ferenczi and Ego Psychology
Italian Psychoanalyst, Carlo Bonomi, PhD, explains how ego
psychology ruled in the United States for 40 years until the aversion to Ferenczi began to abate.
Confusion of Tongues: Trauma and Playfulness
Galit Atlas-Koch, PhD, adds a clinical paper discussing two cases from the point of view of the distinction
between the language of tenderness and the language of aggression.
Death/Life: Reflections on Reading Ferenczi
Lane Gerber, PhD, writes of how he identifies with Ferenczi and the personal way the paper
“The Unwelcome Child and His Death Instinct” (Ferenczi, 1929) resonated with him.
Ferenczi’s Lucubrations
Robert Langan, PhD, tempts the reader with a fantasy of being in the room with Ferenczi
as he burns the midnight oil.
Sándor Ferenczi: The Dramatologist of Love
Zvi Lothane, MD, writes about dramatization and dramatology in the psychoanalytic consulting room and recognizes
that Ferenczi viewed symptoms as communications of love, given and received.
Ferenczi’s Work on War Neuroses
Adrienne Harris, PhD, discusses “Two Types of War Neuroses” (Ferenczi, 1916/1917) and explains how Ferenczi,
working in a field hospital during World War I, saw the powerful function of unconscious phenomena, regression
and fragmentation in the trauma of these men.
Book Review: Healing Through Love: A Review of “Disappearing and Reviving: Sándor Ferenczi
in the History of Psychoanalysis”
Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, explores Ferenczi’s highly complex presence in the history of psychoanalysis in his
review of this book by Andre Haynal.
Creative Literary Arts
In the Creative Literary Arts Section, we have included two essays with similar themes: Darcy Dean Minsky, LCSW,
MS, writes about the death of her analyst of 22 years and Kabi Hartman, PhD, writes about the sudden death of the
analyst who saw her through difficult times.
On Bread and Wine
Private Lives offers a moving essay by Spyros Orfanos. PhD, ABPP, about the death of his father and his
honored memory.
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Volume 6, Number 2
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This issue opens with two commentaries; Katie Gentile, PhD, and Abby Stein, PhD, each address the concept of gender -- an overlooked aspect of our roundtable discussion on violence in therapists’ offices, in “Missing Genders: Commentary on the Roundtable Discussion: Violence and Aggression in the Consulting Room.”
Scholarly papers include three interviews by Theresa Aiello, PhD, of European analysts, Rudolf Ekstein, Erna Furman, and Esther Menaker, who emigrated to the United States in the mid 20th century. Emerging therapist Elizabeth Janssen recounts working with a patient grappling with attachment issues. Clemens Loew,PhD, Sophia Richman, PhD, and Helen Epstein follow with three papers, which each address aspects of finding one’s voice, constructing narrative and the role of analysis in the process of writing a memoir.
Paul Steinberg, MD, reviews Linda Hopkins’ False Self: The Life of Masud Khan, a book that explores Khan’s contradictory nature, his relationship with Winnicott, and the troubling realization that influence sometimes comes at a very high price.
This Creative Literary Arts section features an assortment of poetry from famous people from all walks of life. These “Unexpected Poets” include Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, and even Barack Obama.
In this issue’s Private Lives section, Linda Sherby, PhD, describes her complex and moving experiences during her final days with her husband in a hospice. We accompany her on a compelling search for answers in order to cope with the unbearable loss.
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Volume 6, Number 1
We present 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.
In this excerpt from his most recent book, Thomas 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.
By sharing extensive case material and her own relevant personal history, Linda Jacobs, PhD, explores the influence of the analyst’s
subjectivity on clinical choices and interventions. Challenges to the frame and other important issues are explored.
Shelle Goldstein 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.
Alan Sirote, LCSW, reviews Abby Stein’s Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime, a provocative book that explores the
origins of violence by applying theories of dissociation to criminal behavior.
The Creative Literary Arts section features poetry and prose attempting to capture moments by putting them into words. These short pieces, all 700 words or
less, remarkably depict essences of the human condition.
In this issue’s Private Lives section, Lynn Somerstein, PhD, describes her complicated relationship with her misogynistic father and how it
had a vital impact on her self-esteem and her romantic relationships.
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Volume 5, Number 2
This issue features an impassioned and creative discussion that 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 of 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.
Pascal Sauvayre, PhD, reviews Irwin Hirsch’s Coasting in the Countertransference, a book devoted to the phenomenon of “coasting,” which therapists might unknowingly exploit and may not be in their patients’ best interests.
The Creative Literary Arts section features poetry from D.W. Winnicott and his student Masud Khan. These poems are embodiments of Winnicott’s concept of creativity – the transitional space between our inner and outer worlds.
In this issue’s Private Lives section, G. Christopher Turner, PhD, provides us with a very personal account of what happens when the core self is violated. In this traumatic story, a child’s fantasy world is intruded upon by a malevolent reality. We have sold out of this issue, but please click here to be forwarded to the Taylor and Francis site, our new publishers, to subscribe for 2012.
Volume 5, Number 1
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
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
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
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
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
Volume2, 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
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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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.
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