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Review of Clara Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Miri Abramis
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Review of Coming to Life in the Consulting Room – Toward a New Analytic Sensibility Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 M. Nasir Ilahi
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Review of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jason A. Wheeler Vega
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Slipping Glimpser Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Edward Bartlett
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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We Don’t Trust You Reflections on anti-Racism in Psychoanalysis Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Leon Hoffman
Discussions about race and racism are very difficult among psychoanalysts, and are often polarizing. This article argues that the conception of Whiteness as the pathogenic agent of our social ills ...
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Review of Opera on the Couch Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Moshe Bergstein
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Review of Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 John Turtz
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Review of Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Helena Vissing
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 59, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Birthright Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Claire Basescu
This article combines literary, scholarly, and clinical genres to explore various aspects of the abortion experience.
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Who Can Afford Complexity? The Promise and Peril of Psychoanalyzing the Abortion Decision Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Naomi Snider
This paper situates psychoanalytic exploration of abortion within a politically polarized culture, in which claims of psychological and moral hazard are weaponized to undermine women’s reproductive...
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An Intergenerational Look at Abortion, the 1970s vs Now: Reflections on Papers by Isheh Beck and Naomi Snider Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Kathy Bacon-Greenberg
The papers of Beck and Snider (this issue) grapple with the place of abortion in our psychoanalytic thought and practice, locating abortion within the larger cultural and political world. At the he...
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Laying down Our Burdens Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Cynthia Chalker
This author contends that while the Dobbs decision is certainly about abortion, it is also about women’s health in general and, more specifically and dire, Black women and their reproductive health...
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Abortion Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Rosemary H. Balsam
A deprivation of women’s reproductive rights has occurred by the right-wing turn in recent United States’ politics. Looking at the details of Roe v. Wade, (1973), and Dobbs (2022), the author notes...
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The Dobbs Decision, Forced Birth, and the Fantasy of the Selfless Mother Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Meredith Darcy
The Dobbs decision and the U.S. abortion ban, or forced birth, is a clear human rights violation. With zero access to safe abortion, a pregnant person must either stay pregnant and give birth to a ...
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Preamble Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Kathy Bacon-Greenberg, Isheh Beck, Naomi Snider
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 59, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Abortion as a Catalyst Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Isheh Beck
In both what has and has not been published in the psychoanalytic literature about abortion, those who elect abortion have been devalued. The omission of abortion perpetuates its sense of unimporta...
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Thoughts on the Abortion Taboo: Displacement of a Failing Incest Taboo? Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Jill Gentile
The author suggests reading the forces culminating in the Dobbs’ decision and the dismantling of Roe v. Wade as the expression of an “abortion taboo,” which represents patriarchy’s refusal to conce...
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They Are All Pam Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Cassandra Neyenesch
The author reflects on an experience with a young Laotian woman seeking an abortion in West Philadelphia in 1991. The experience led her to reflect on her mother’s abortion much earlier, following ...
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The Magic of a Fetal Fetish in the Face of Climate Crisis and the Expanse of Dense Temporalities Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Katie Gentile
In times of cultural upheaval, the image of the child, typically a White girl, has been used to represent the vulnerability of humanity as a whole. In the face of escalating climate crisis the fetu...
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Reproductive Agency and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Tracy Sidesinger
This article supports the development of reproductive agency as a means of intercepting the transgenerational transmission of trauma through maternal subjectivity. Reproductive agency includes, amo...
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Psychoanalysis and Reproductive Justice: Reflections on Dobbs and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Political Praxis Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
This essay addresses the aftermath of Dobbs, the Supreme Court Decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, by looking to what can be learned from other countries, specifically psychoanalytically-informed...
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Patriarchal Religion in U.S. Constitutional Law (Dobbs v. Jackson): Originalism as “Political Religion” (Burke) Unmasked1 Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 David A. J. Richards
1Abstract. The Supreme Court’s recent overruling of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson reflects the influence of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the “new natural lawyers,”2 whose views, if ...
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The Abject, the Silence and the Crime: Intricacies of Abortion in Iran Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Nahaleh Moshtagh
The author uses Kristeva’s concept of “abject” to explain the disgust, horror, and hatred toward woman’s internal organs, experienced by both men and women. The abject marks the moment when we sepa...
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Ruptures or Disruption: Identity Diffusion and the Therapeutic Relationship Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Michel F. M. Boyer
Abstract In the psychotherapy of personality disorders, the limitations of the self and of interpersonal functioning that underlie all personality pathology are both a main treatment focus and a major obstacle in doing so. These limitations are most intensely manifested within the primary aspect of the psychotherapeutic relationship. The core of personality disorders–identity diffusion–refers to a
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Lost in a Universe of No Inherent Meaning: Psychoanalysis and Existentialism Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Zvi Steve Yadin
Abstract Addressing the patient’s anxieties about the meaning of life and death as integral phenomena of the life cycle is not commonly discussed in the analytic literature. A central dilemma of analytic work is the effort to facilitate change in the life of a suffering patient while also bearing in mind the inescapable human destiny, i.e., the certainty of death. All too often, these factors remain
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Swiping on Tinder-Imagining or Just Fantasying in Dating Apps? Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Maya Asher
Abstract Patients often come to treatment with difficulties in creating and forming romantic relationships. As therapists, we accompany them in this delicate and sometimes fraught process. Many patients turn to dating apps (e.g., “Tinder,” “OkCupid”) in order to try and find something truly meaningful to fulfill their lives. These platforms occupy their everyday lives, consuming their time and mental
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Meeting Again, Meeting Anew: A Child Patient Returns as an Adult Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Danielle Novack
Abstract While many analysts have former patients return to treatment years after termination, it is more unusual for a former child patient to return as an adult. Such situations provide unique windows into development, both the patient’s and the analyst’s. They also present special opportunities for considering the fluidity and bidirectionality of psychic time. I describe my work with Charlotte,
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A review of Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Morty Rosenbaum
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Staying in Touch with Affect: Maintaining Vital Access to the Body while Working Online Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Mary Bayles
Presented here is a verbatim session conducted online. The session integrates the ideas of Aline LaPierre’s therapeutic touch model into psychoanalytic practice. Allan Schore introduced LaPierre’s work in Psychologist/Psychoanalyst in 2003, arguing that, “it is time to reappraise the central role of the operations of the bodily self in psychopathogenisis and treatment” (p. 9). More specifically, he
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A review of Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice Study and Research Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 John V. O’leary
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2022)
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A Review of Trauma and Dissociation-Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Jonathan Kurfirst
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Review of Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Sandra Buechler
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A review of When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Gurmeet Kanwal
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2022)
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Language, Bromberg, Selfhood Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Suzanne Little
Abstract The Philip I know lives at the intersection of language and selfhood. His analytic writing—part soliloquy, part dialogue—is a multivocal conversation with his reader, an immersion in the relational and linguistic interplay of self-states and dissociative spaces. His great gift is to seed therapeutic interconnectedness in the grounds of felt and negotiated meaning. To read Philip is to be more
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Sitting in the Hot Seat: Being with Philip Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 A Panel Discussion with Anita Herron, Shelly Itzkowitz, Aries Liao, Cleonie White, Moderated by Elizabeth Halsted
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Write! That I May Remember You: Some Reflections on Philip M. Bromberg to Philip, With Love Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jean Petrucelli Ph.D.
Abstract The contributions to this special volume are but one holographic sliver representing the ways in which Philip M. Bromberg influenced psychoanalysis. To give voice to the many that he touched would require a never-ending issue of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. So, for now, this special edition brings you a slice. Bromberg’s ideas are among the most influential bodies of work written by any i
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Psychotherapy as the Art of Uncertainty Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Philip M. Bromberg
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 2-3, 2022)
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Why We Need Art: Philip Bromberg’s “Other Ways of Knowing” Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Velleda C. Ceccoli
Abstract This essay addresses some of Philip Bromberg’s ideas regarding “other ways of knowing” as important, implicit communications that can yield information about early attachment(s), and relational ruptures. Because they convey meaning through the senses and not through spoken language, they potentially serve as a means of perceptual symbolization. Bromberg privileged implicit knowing in his clinical
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Ode To A Diamond Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Robert Bosnak
Abstract In this article, the author recounts his first meeting with Philip Bromberg and then focuses on a session of dream work done in a group demonstrating the method of embodied imagination. The dream describes a place of filth where a diamond is found. By holding both states—filth and diamond—simultaneously, an alchemical sublimation process is triggered that combines the healing effect of the
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Cosmos, Cosmetics, and Trauma Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Gianni Nebbiosi
Abstract The clinical case I will present is intentionally without substantial theoretical references as it is meant to be a tribute entirely focused not only on Philip Bromberg’s thought, but also on his writing style and on the many emotions and much wisdom that are expressed in his texts, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly. Briefly, I would like to pay an entirely personal tribute to Bromberg
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Safe, But Not Too Safe: Scenes From an Epistolary Romance Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Max Cavitch Ph.D.
Abstract The following correspondence, incomplete and edited for length, was conducted between 2005 and 2017—12 years out of the 15-year-long span of my almost entirely epistolary friendship with Philip Bromberg. With all the casualness and inadvertency of an email exchange, it nevertheless speaks—for us both—far more eloquently than anything I could write about the history of our friendship and about
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Who My Ideas Come from Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Maggie M. Robbins
Abstract The activities of both art making and literary writing afford lots of mental space for the uncontrolled intervention by “creativity,” that difficult-to-describe-let-alone-define quality of original work. In this piece I will discuss the experience of creativity as an ego-dystonic force. Meaning no disrespect to the Muse, I will present this occurrence as a dissociative phenomenon.
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From Interpersonal Field to Mind in the Work of Philip Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Donnel Stern , Ph.D.
Abstract In this brief essay I describe in a very condensed way what is, to me, the heart of Philip Bromberg’s work: the creation of the mind from the affectively charged events of the interpersonal field, and the rootedness of therapeutic action in the analyst’s emotional responsiveness to the enactment of the patient’s structuralized dissociations.
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Dissociative Uses of the Body: Reverberations from the Work of Philip Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Susan H. Sands
Abstract Individuals with eating disorders (ED) use their bodies to dissociate need and desire, thus maintaining their autonomy from other human beings. Desire is dissociated and concretized in the body, where it is ruthlessly controlled and attacked. In addition, the preoccupation with food and the process of eating (or not eating) substitute for a relationship with a needed, self-regulating other
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Philip Bromberg and the Revolution about Dissociated Self-States Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Elizabeth Howell
Abstract In this article, I outline three primary ways in which Philip Bromberg’s work has reshaped the terrain of much of current psychoanalysis: (1) movement of the emphasis in psychoanalytic thinking from repression to dissociation; (2) premising personality disorders on dissociation; and (3) a redefinition of the unconscious. I also describe some of my work that expands on or is related to these
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Did Philip Bromberg Know He Was Treating DID? Does It Matter? Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Richard A. Chefetz , M.D.
Abstract Initially informed by concepts related to dissociative experience via the notion of Sullivan’s ‘not-me’ (1953), Philip Bromberg went on to craft a relational psychoanalysis built upon the foundation of a multiple self-state theory of mind that grew from his discussions with Stephen Mitchell and also from his attention to the literature and treatment of dissociative identity disorder (DID)
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I’m not Myself Today: Dialogues with Philip Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Susan Kolod
Abstract The author illustrates how 35+ years of interaction with Philip Bromberg affected her clinical and theorical work. Some of the phenomena described include a woman’s experience of herself across the menstrual cycle, the vicissitudes of how sexual encounters are experienced and remembered, and “spectatoring”, i.e., watching oneself have sex as if it’s happening to another person. These phenomena
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A Remembrance of Philip M. Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Helen V. Quiñones
Abstract This essay is dedicated to Philip M. Bromberg whose influence the author found to be transformative, both professionally and personally. The memories capture the relational intimacy experienced with Philip Bromberg during particularly vulnerable moments. Each memory is also used to illustrate the clinical presence needed to hold the disparate self-states inherent to dissociation. A brief case
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The Hot Seat: Supervision With Philip Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Shelly Itzkowitz
Abstract The author along with Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., Jill Howard, Ph.D., and Peter Lessem, Ph.D. was in Group Supervision with Philip Bromberg, Ph.D. for more than a decade. This article addresses the author’s experience of sitting across from Philip Bromberg in “The Hot Seat” during group supervisory sessions. The impact of Dr. Bromberg’s ideas on interpersonal and relational psychoanalytic theory
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Harry and Philip Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Emily Kuriloff
Abstract This article begins with a review of Philip Bromberg’s penultimate psychoanalytic essay, “Sullivan as Pragmatic Visionary, Operationist and OperRelationalist” (2014), in which he honors the founder of the interpersonal psychoanalytic tradition. His focus on Sullivan’s emotional experience—specifically his struggle to be fully himself—reveals both motives and impediments to his interpersonal
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Enactment and Affect Integration: Bromberg’s Particular Clinical Skill Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Adrienne Harris
Abstract This essay draws on a clinical vignette reproduced from a treatment with Philip Bromberg and carried into my clinical work, illuminating his creative use of enactment. The ongoing vitality of his insight carried over three decades and two analytic engagements.
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that Was Then, This Is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For The Rest Of Us Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jonathan Shedler Ph.D.
Abstract Psychoanalysis has an image problem. The dominant narrative in the mental health professions and in society is that psychoanalysis is outmoded, discredited, and debunked. What most people know of it are pejorative stereotypes and caricatures dating to the horse and buggy era. The stereotypes are fueled by misinformation from external sources, including managed care companies and proponents
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A Mutual Appreciation of Differences: My Conversation with Philip M. Bromberg Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Richard P. Kluft
Abstract Concepts from emerging relational/intersubjective perspectives elaborate a definition, understanding, and clinical approach to dissociation consistent with their paradigms. They cast new light upon dissociation as a long underappreciated and often overlooked (primarily characterological) defense. While some embrace the extension of these ideas into work with the formal dissociative disorders
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Taking It Personally Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Jessica Benjamin
Abstract The author reviews some of her personal and intellectual connections and experience in dialogue with Philip Bromberg, touching on a few ideas that have central importance for her as well as how he conveyed his own experience and feeling of what was important. She highlights how Bromberg influenced her and summarizes the way she understands her differences with him.
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Review of Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalyis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender and Sexuality Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Gillian Straker
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 4, 2022)
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Before There Was Philip, There Was Phil Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Ruth R. Imber
Abstract The author offers some reminiscences about the history of her relationship, both personal and professional, with Philip Bromberg. His early role in her training at the William Alanson White Institute is described with appreciation.
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From the Editors-in-Chief Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Susan Fabrick, Ruth Livingston
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2022)
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Photograph of Paul Lippmann Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2022-10-07
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2022)
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On Getting Old Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Paul Lippmann
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2022)
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On Paul Lippmann Contempor. Psychoanal. (IF 0.256) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Gary Schlesinger
Published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Vol. 58, No. 1, 2022)