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When the Analyst Dies and the Patient Goes Missing: An Ethical Crisis in Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Kirsten Lentz
This essay argues with urgency the need for psychoanalysts to redress a dangerous lacuna in psychoanalytic praxis. There is, Lentz argues, a disturbing inattention to the quiet but devastating real...
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In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 34-1 Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jack Foehl, Amy Schwartz Cooney, Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2024)
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What Remains Untold in the Untelling: A Commentary on Robert Grossmark’s “The Untelling” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jade McGleughlin
Grossmark describes enactments as arising from the patient’s own unknown, unrepresented history, that remains unmarked by time or place – the patient’s “unpast”- to be delivered to the analyst in e...
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Running from Kabul: Hopes, Dreams, and Nightmares Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lisa Sandow Lyons
I present a portrait of my ongoing work with Zarmina, a female Afghan student who escaped Kabul after the Taliban takeover and is now a refugee and student in New York. I consider the traumatic imp...
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Working with Afghan Students: Countertransference and Dissociated Processes of an Analyst in Training Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Marty A. Cooper
This paper was developed as part of a panel for the International Psychoanalytic Association’s (IPA) 53rd Congress in July 2023. In this paper I discuss treatment with students from the American Un...
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The Untelling Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Robert Grossmark
This paper builds on the idea that enactment is a form of narration in action. Drawing on Scarfone’s concept of the “unpast” I describe mutual enactment as an “untelling” that narrates that which h...
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The Scrapyard and the Archive: A Comment on Grossmark’s “The Untelling” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Dominique Scarfone
Robert Grossmark's “The Untelling” is an original contribution to the understanding of the psychoanalytic process, especially with the introduction of the notions of Untelling and of Filled-in and ...
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Response to the Commentaries of Dominique Scarfone and Jade McGleughlin on “The Untelling” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Robert Grossmark
With much gratitude to Jade McGleughlin and Dominique Scarfone I take up their comments on “The Untelling.” I address remembering versus repeating and suggest that this dichotomy excludes the creat...
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Death’s Chair: Sitting with Loss Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rachel Kozlowski
In this paper I offer personal encounters with illness and death in an attempt to actualize what I am imploring analysts to pursue: a close examination of their relationship with mortality. I lamen...
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I Will Remember You: Discussion of Papers by Kirsten Lentz and Rachel Kozlowski Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jeannie Blaustein
Rachel Kozlowitz and Kirsten Lentz have challenged psychoanalysis to consider more deeply the impact on analysands when the therapist becomes mortally ill and/or dies, and to make the necessary per...
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Intimate Contact in the Landscape of Mortality: Commentary on Papers by Rachel Kozlowski and Kirsten Lentz Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Stephanie R. Brody
The following is a discussion of papers by Kozlowski and Lentz that explore the presence of mortality in the analytic relationship. The author reflects on challenges to the dyad, the vulnerability ...
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Introduction Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Amy Schwartz Cooney, Jack Foehl, Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 34, No. 1, 2024)
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Escape from Kabul: Survival and Moral Injury Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Spyros D. Orfanos
The terror encountered by women in Afghanistan because of the military withdrawal of United States and its allies in the summer of 2021 is ongoing. The first part of this paper describes emergency ...
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Letter to Humanity Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Shaista Shams
In this brief piece, I appeal to the world for recognition of the plight of the Afghan people following the Taliban takeover of the country in August 2021, after the United States’ fast exit after ...
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Emancipation and Mourning: Reply to Sandra Buechler and Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Daniel Shaw
The author is grateful for Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot’s and Sandra Buechler’s empathetic recognition of the shame that torments cult survivors. Both note the tendency toward othering that these patients ...
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Loving the Alien Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Arthur Fox
Burton’s breakthrough with a difficult patient proposes interesting questions about how psychoanalytic treatment works. Using contemporary Freudian theory that foregrounds the role of the unconscio...
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The Unbound Seed: Discussion of The Bad Seed: Mystical Experiences and Time Travel in the Treatment of Psychopathy Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Megan Rundel
In this discussion of The Bad Seed: Mystical Experiences and Time Travel in the Treatment of Psychopathy, I focus on the role of psychedelics in the remarkable clinical account Burton offers. A mod...
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The Role of Shame in Cults, from Recruitment to Recovery Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Daniel Shaw
Understanding the traumatizing narcissist’s relational system of subjugation is an important aspect of cult recovery work, for both the therapist and the cult survivor. The author describes the rol...
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Emotional Super Glue: A Response to Hoskins-Murphy’s “Close to the Bone” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Joye Weisel-Barth
In this appreciative response to Hoskins-Murphy’s paper, I expand on her overarching theme of the emotional stickiness of motherhood and the many ways the mother’s affective adherence to the needs ...
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What’s the Emergency in Maternal Emergence? A Response to Hoskins-Murphy’s “Close to the Bone” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Maura Sheehy
In response to Nicola Hoskins-Murphy’s paper, I wonder about the limitations of and contradictions embedded in the formulation of a maternal that requires foreclosure of a longed-for emergence of s...
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In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33-6 Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Stephen Hartman, Amy Schwartz Cooney, Jack Foehl, Lauren Levine
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 6, 2023)
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The Bad Seed: Mystical Experience and Time Travel in the Treatment of Psychopathy Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Noelle Burton
Psychopathy has long been considered untreatable. The purpose of this paper is to provide a report from the field on therapeutic gains made in the case of a psychopathic personality and to outline ...
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God, Mushrooms, and Analytic Process: A Case Reported Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Jeffrey Guss
An analytic treatment of a patient with psychopathic traits offers a rich opportunity to examine the multi-layered interactions among the treatment, a psychedelic mushroom journey and Dr. Burton’s ...
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Further Thoughts on Consciousness, Mystical Experience, Character, and Clinical Process: Reply to Fox, Rundel, and Guss Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Noelle Burton
This is a reply to the discussions by Arthur Fox, Megan Rundel, and Jeffrey Guss. Clarification is made on the utility of diagnosis, as well as further elaboration on what is common to both psyched...
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Traumatizing Narcissists, Followers, and Therapists: Discussion of “The Role of Shame in Cults, from Recruitment to Recovery” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Sandra Buechler
This discussion focuses on the presence of traumatizing narcissists across eras and cultures, and some dilemmas encountered by survivors of cults and their therapists. It highlights the clinician’s...
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On Shame, Love, Mourning, and Desire Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot
Dan focuses his article on shame, its role in cult recruitment and the way it obstructs recovery from cult-related trauma. He describes questions asked about cult survivors’ “pathology” and ends wi...
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Close to the Bone: Coming into Being and the Crucible of Motherhood Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Nicola Hoskins-Murphy
Motherhood is a great devotion and investment of self into the coming into being of another person. It is a crucible within which we are tested, since it seems to ask more than we have to give, par...
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The Breadcrumb Trail: A Reply to Joye Weisel-Barth and Maura Sheehy Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Nicola Hoskins-Murphy
In reply to Joye Weisel-Barth and Maura Sheehy I explore the unfolding dynamic between us in our conversation, resonances and dysregulations, as each of us wrestles with the intensity and binding f...
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In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33-5 Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Jack Foehl, Amy Schwartz Cooney, Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Sense and Sensibility: On the Aesthetics of Psychoanalytic Work Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Velleda C. Ceccoli
This discussion focuses on Dr Huang’s use of the esthetic, her experience of the “ineffable” in treatment, and the limitations of spoken language in capturing affect, which are enacted in her essay...
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How the Story is Told: A Response to Jacobs & Starr Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Earl D. Bland, Paul Hoard
This response to the discussions provided by Lynne Jacobs and Karen Starr highlights and expands points of convergence, as well as clarify areas where there is difference and disagreement. Specific...
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Three Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 June Lee Kwon
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Holier Than Thou: Discussion of Hoard and Bland’s “How Am I Responsible?”: Evangelical White Rage and the Interpassive Perpetration of White-Body Supremacy Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Karen E. Starr
This paper presents a brief sociocultural review of the development of the twentieth-century American Christian evangelical movement and its relationship to racism and structural racial inequality....
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(Re)finding Feminism Beyond the Binary: A 5-Queer Dialogue Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Julie Leavitt
Invoking the spirit of Muriel Dimen’s early queering of psychoanalytic writing, the author sandwiches – between echoes of Dimen’s 1991 paper on deconstructing (gender) difference and Judith Butler’...
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“Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl”: Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Barbara Pizer
The author presents a clinical case in which aspects of the analyst’s dissociated experience – due to childhood shame or prohibitions – are evoked by her intuitive awareness of dissociated, stuck, ...
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Finding Ourselves “Inside” the White Evangelical Christian Story: Response to Bland and Hoard Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Lynne Jacobs
This discussion suggests that the white evangelical Christianity described by Bland and Hoard infuses the history and culture of North America so thoroughly that the enduring racial contradictions ...
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Dimen: The Body as Fate/The Body as Canvas Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Virginia Goldner
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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From Black Hole to Potential Space: Discussion of Barbara Pizer’s “‘Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl’: Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Stuart A. Pizer
This discussion of Barbara Pizer’s “‘Eva, Get the Goldfish Bowl:’ Affect and Intuition in the Analytic Relationship” locates her paper in the trajectory of her psychoanalytic contributions through ...
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Finding “Sense” without Co-Presence: The Role of Aesthetic Sensibility in an Ontological Approach to Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Alice X. Huang
Aesthetic sensibility is a feature of an ontological approach to psychoanalysis. The author writes about an analysis that switched to video work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Without co-presence, t...
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Discussion of Alice Huang’s “Finding Sense…” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Peter Goldberg
In my discussion of Huang’s paper on aesthetic experience, I describe how she explores new territory both conceptually and at the level of clinical observation. Huang’s novel clinical observation i...
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Apprehending Aesthetics: Reply to Ceccoli and Goldberg Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Alice X. Huang
In this reply to Ceccoli and Goldberg, the author reflects on her writing process and the challenge of conveying aesthetic experience in psychoanalytic writing. She identifies the aesthetic and sym...
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“How Am I Responsible?”: Evangelical White Rage and Moral Injury in the Interpassive Perpetration of White-Body Supremacy Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Paul Hoard, Earl D. Bland
Using the language of white rage as a term for the defensive reaction of white Americans to having one’s insular and central social location exposed and threatened, this paper explores the manifest...
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Introduction to the Après Coup of “Deconstructing Difference: Gender, Splitting, and Transitional Space” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Stephen Hartman, Amy Schwartz Cooney, Jack Foehl, Lauren Levine, Muriel Dimen
With the republication of Muriel Dimen’s classic essay, “Deconstructing difference: Gender, splitting, and transitional space” (Dimen, 1991), Psychoanalytic Dialogues launches a new feature, Après ...
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Free Associating to Muriel Dimen Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ann D’Ercole, Jack Drescher
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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Autotheory is Always Arriving Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Stephen Hartman
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 5, 2023)
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An Afghan Girl’s Exile Journey Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Shaista Shams
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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A Few Small Nips Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Mehr-Afarin Kohan
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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Snapshot Times Three: Sunday, March 19th, 2023, New York Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Limor Kaufman
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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Again, the Personal is Political and Psychoanalytic: Sue Grand and Jill Salberg in Conversation with Masha Borovikova Armyn Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sue Grand, Jill Salberg, Masha Borovikova Armyn
ABSTRACT In the papers by Sue Grand and Jill Salberg that form the panel, When the Personal Helps Us Write the Political, both authors use autobiography to activate the text as they explore ever more elusive dimensions of whiteness. In lieu of the traditional panel discussion, a more personal approach seemed fitting. In conversation with interviewer Masha Borovikova Armyn, the stakes involved in exposing
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Abracadabra Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Gohar Homayounpour
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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The Erotic as a Site of Survival Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Rebecca Sivitz Tew
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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On the Difficulty for Palestinians of Not Falling into Despair and to Continue Actively Resisting Oppression and Occupation Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Manal Abu Haq
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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Bodies in Peril: Assaults on Women’s Rights and the Intrusive Other Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Danielle Novack
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)
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Unconsciousness-Raising: Considerations for Liberation Psychology, Subjectivity, and Reflexivity Theory Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Nick Malherbe
ABSTRACT Consciousness-raising denotes the process of using people’s experiences of oppression to inform their collective political activity. The role of psychology in the history of consciousness-raising has been double-edged. On the one hand, mainstream psychology has recuperated consciousness-raising, depoliticizing it so that it reflects little more than a therapeutic mode of self-help that adjusts
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Discussion: “Unconsciousness-Raising” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Alexandra Woods
ABSTRACT In discussing Nick Malherbe’s important exploration of liberation psychology and psychoanalysis, I attempt to sharpen analysis of the oppressive impact of traditional psychology/psychoanalysis (especially so in the U.S.). I consider oppressive hierarchies of privilege within the capitalist order in which all institutions, movements and individuals are implicated. I draw particularly from the
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Working Through Transformations in Play Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Elena Molinari, Violet Pietrantonio
ABSTRACT For Bion, one of the aims of analysis is to increase the transformation of negative emotions so that they do not exceed the personal capacity to contain them. Ferro described a transformation in playing as the possibility of giving the patient an emotion contained in action or a concrete situation, intuiting the underlying dream. A possible hypothesis to deepen the “transformations in playing”
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A Reverie in Play – Playing in Reverie: Discussion of Elena Molinari’s and Violet Pietrantonio’s “Working Through Transformations in Play” Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Hilmar Schmiedl-Neuburg
ABSTRACT Elena Molinari’s and Violet Pietrantonio’s “Working Through Transformations in Play” (2023) investigates the interrelations between emotional transformations in dreaming and reverie and emotional and embodied transformations in play by interweaving clinical observations, theoretical insights from Bion, Ferro, Ogden et al, and analogies from art. In this way, the authors show how the unthought
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On Hatred: Perpetrator Fragments and Totalitarian Objects Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sue Grand
ABSTRACT In times of political extremis, the author probes the evoked hatred that threatens to transform her into the dehumanizing totalitarian object that is inciting her hatred. This article explores the trans-generational inheritance of perpetrator objects that can reignite in such inflammatory times – in our psyches, and in cultural spaces. How do we recognize, embrace, and constructively use these
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Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Jill Salberg
ABSTRACT The backdrop for this paper has been the ongoing COVID pandemic and the author’s personal response to the murder of George Floyd and the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy that resides here in the US In writing this paper, the author argues that currently we are witnessing and living with the formidable trans-generationally transmitted return of inherited racial hatred
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In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 33-4 Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Amy Schwartz Cooney, Jack Foehl, Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine
Published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives (Vol. 33, No. 4, 2023)