(2021). In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 31:2. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 133-134.

ABSTRACT The use of service animals is exploding and humanity’s troubled relationship with the “nonhuman” is at the center of many viral contagions and climate change. Using a clinical case, this paper integrates Searles’ conflicting ideas on the “nonhuman” with current work in posthumanism and Indigenous studies, to explore the ambivalent dependence of the human on the more-than-human, the co-emergence

ABSTRACT In my response to Katie Gentile’s “Kittens in the Clinical Space,” (this issue) I address the early twenty-first century critical theory and the works of indigenous knowledge that Gentile references in the challenge she puts to psychoanalysts to think beyond human privilege, its relationship to racio-specieism, colonialism, and settler-colonialism. She suggests that psychoanalysts instead

ABSTRACT This paper responds to Patricia Clough’s discussion of my “Kittens in the Clinical Space, Expanding Subjectivity through Dense Temporalities of Interspecies, Transcorporeal Becoming,” in this issue. Following Clough’s nimble intellectual play of theory and method, I revisit the ontological theory forwarded in my paper, but here it is buttressed more directly with critical race and Indigenous

ABSTRACT This essay moves beyond my earlier focus on relational excess and turns a critical eye on my own work. After describing my relational holding model, I address its limitations—both theoretical and clinical. What is problematic in the implicit analytic ideal embedded in the concept of holding? How does this vision of therapeutic process both add to and narrow the clinical arena? What is absent

ABSTRACT Patients with eating disorders often rely on dissociation, cordoning off parts of the self that come to reside in disconnected mind and body states. In this paper, I explore the use of the multidisciplinary treatment team as a vehicle for accessing, engaging and linking the patient’s dissociated self-states as they emerge within different therapeutic dyads. While it is common for therapists

ABSTRACT In response to Novack’s (this issue) insightful paper, this discussion endeavors to extend her arguments with my own thinking about alexithymia in patients with eating disorders and the fundamental role of the psychoanalyst in promoting the patient’s capacity for the psychic elaboration of emotion as he or she moves through the treatment process and engages with the larger treatment team.

ABSTRACT Novack (this issue) provides opportunities for clinicians working with patients with eating disorders to think of the various team members, including additional therapists, as representing and helping to bring to the forefront the patient’s various self-states and expands the idea of multiple self-other configurations to a multi-person configuration. However, the complexity of this multi-person

ABSTRACT Replying to commentaries by Wooldridge and Petrucelli (this issue), I discuss a psychoanalytic approach to treating eating disorders that includes concurrent therapeutic relationships as part of a broadened therapeutic field. I elaborate on the concept of the multidisciplinary treatment team as offering expanded possibilities for working analytically with dissociated aspects of self. Noting

ABSTRACT This paper introduces a dream component I refer to as an inner voice within dreams; i.e., a splitting of the self into an experiencing subject immersed in the dream and an inner observer that comments on and interprets elements of the dream. The inner voice is noticeable in lucid dreams, but not necessarily only in them. The author argues that Freud’s theories of day residue and secondary

ABSTRACT This article considers Yadin’s concept of an inner voice in dreams (this issue). It explores ways this voice might be similar to and different from varieties of ordinary thinking. The phenomenon of lucid dreaming is contemplated in order to ascertain the extent to which inner voice dreams can be regarded as lucid. Sterba’s two egos (experiencing and observing) and Yadin’s reflecting/judging/guiding

ABSTRACT In this response to the comprehensive commentary of my paper by Dr. Willock (this issue), I underscore the complexity of the multiple self-state interactions that appear to be managed by an “Executive Director.” Within this framework, I emphasize the inner voice in dreams as a fundamental element in the dream process. I describe the role of the inner voice in dreams as assisting the dreamer

(2021). In This Issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 31:1. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

(2021). Mission Statement. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 3-5.

ABSTRACT This clinical paper explores aspects of unconscious communication and dissociation during the authors first year in psychoanalytic training, as an early career clinician. The author explores dissociation subjectively experienced as a form of communicating both consciously and unconsciously. The analyst/analysand relationship is expressed as the conduit for optimal exposure to dissociated self-states

ABSTRACT Whiteness, a sociopolitical racialized hierarchy, has been normalized, codified, and internalized by psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic spaces, including psychoanalytic institutes. In order for psychoanalysis and its practitioners to situate ourselves in society as relevant and useful, and mitigate racism and racist enactments, collusions with whiteness must be interrogated. Interrogating whiteness

ABSTRACT This paper explores into racial presence in psychotherapy when a White therapist works with a White patient, focusing on countertransference responses. I consider ways the sociocultural and political world shape the subjectivities of both partners in psychotherapy and how Whiteness is especially difficult to see and make use of. The need for broader analyses of interactions between inner and

ABSTRACT In this commentary, I build on Beverly Burch’s (this issue) important analysis of race dynamics in a White-White dyad by exploring the way that the intersection of the overlapping oppressions of racism, classism, and sexism–within a neoliberal context–are enacted. I also argue that the clinical material suggests the limits of models that figure the sociocultural as an add-on to subjectivity

ABSTRACT The present paper is a response to Dr. Burch’s clinical case and theoretical discussion (this issue) regarding the process of working with and through white privilege and whitewashing in her consulting room. In response to Dr. Burch’s thorough and careful effort to remain conscious of culture while working within a white dyad (white female patient and white female clinician), I offer personal

ABSTRACT Commentaries by Lynne Layton and June Lee Kwon (this issue) take very different approaches to Whiteness. Layton’s concern with how neoliberalism shapes the inner life is both an alternate and additive contribution to the imperative to include the external surround in clinical work. I argue that race must be seen on its own ground. The entitlement embedded in Whiteness and the skewed values

ABSTRACT The author explores how the patient uses the waiting room and the relationship that he establishes with it vis-à-vis the analysis – an under-represented topic in the literature with the exception of a few authors. Drawing on field theory, Winnicott and Bion, the author examines how the patient’s relationship to the waiting room as an environment houses specific self-states that may be discrepant

ABSTRACT Drawing on theoretical contributions of Ogden, Goldberg, Bleger, and others, this discussion looks at how the frame is used and misused in clinical work. Imagining the psychic, conscious and unconscious meaning of the contents of the room, the waiting room and the office space, one sees how psychic material is both hidden and revealed. Using a clinical example, this discussion explores the

ABSTRACT The author builds on Bonovitz’s fascinating study of the waiting room (this issue). He elaborates the complex function of waiting in analysis particularly with patients who are quite dissociated. Waiting occurs in the waiting room, in the consulting room, and in the minds of patient and analyst. The author explores the paradoxically active process of waiting for the patient to communicate

ABSTRACT In this paper, the author responds to discussions by Adrienne Harris and Steven Cooper (this issue) with an emphasis on the sensory surround of the waiting room and the nuisance factor drawn from the work of Winnicott. The author concludes with musings about the absence of the waiting room during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT This paper describes the psychic toll the migratory, humanitarian crisis is exacting on the self (and its sacred core) of displaced people worldwide, specifically young children and adolescents, who are currently being held in transit camps. The sacred core is Winnicott’s elaboration of the true self and that which is most deeply personal and private, and “most worthy of preservation”. For

ABSTRACT This discussion focuses on two questions: How does this psychoanalytic paper help social scientists broaden their understanding of the psychic (as opposed to the social and political) experiences of displacement and citizenship? How might the clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic insights in this paper benefit from a dialogue with social scientists? I argue that Lisa Beritzhoff’s paper offers

ABSTRACT The article discusses Lisa Beritzhoff’s article titled “Psychoanalysis in the Meantime” (this issue). The author highlights how Beritzhoff avoids the use of a psychoanalysis that is indifferent. She does offer concepts and the standard fodder for a psychoanalytic audience. However, she also introduces something less common; she steps the reader into a world where she shares some of her personal

ABSTRACT Since its beginnings, Psychoanalysis has grown and extended its knowledge but not its reach; it has been less successful working for all people than it has working for a select group of people. In present day, we are beginning to see a change: Psychoanalysis’ proponents, practitioners, and institutes are beginning to bring psychoanalytic self and work into spaces where it has been less accessible

(2021). Editors’ Note. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 122-122.

(2021). What Is the Value of a Vote? Or Black and Latinx Communities as Part-Object. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 122-124.

(2021). Citizen/Psychoanalyst/OG. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 124-125.

(2021). Feeling Blue? Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 125-126.

(2021). Between Despair and Hope. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 126-127.

(2021). After the Election: A View from Abroad. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 127-128.

(2021). The U.S.A. Presidential Election of 2020: Yesterday Was Hard on All of Us. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 128-129.

(2021). Left behind and the Need to Belong. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 129-130.

(2021). The Night of the Broken Mirrors. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 130-131.

(2020). Moving Along. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 647-648.

This paper appreciates and advocates for scholarship in psychoanalysis. This is not the same as “scientific” research—running experiments, sifting through data, having a lab or control group. What I have in mind is an inclusive attitude of synthesis, curiosity, and constructive skepticism—awareness of historical, political, cultural, and organizational contexts; identifying, questioning, and working

In this paper I offer a description of a patient with a prolonged dissociated transference and my countertransference reactions to her. Envy, both hers and mine, permeated our interactions and prevented me from dealing directly with her aggression. I will discuss the process of disentanglement and emotional differentiation that was triggered by a therapeutic crisis that penetrated the dreamlike state

The author examines the various types of envy in his discussion, specifically looking at how the type of envy to which we subscribe to influences our thinking about envy as primary or secondary. He also uses the clinical vignette to conceptualize envy in relation to loss and the preservation of the idealized object.

The author places greater focus on the patient’s defenses being against paranoia than against the specific element of envy. She addresses Kwalwasser’s question (this issue) of why it was that she was unable to see her patient’s behavior as defensive, and suggests that the analyst’s model of working made it difficult for her to separate herself and her patient sufficiently in order to find a place in

I would like to thank Dr. Bonovitz and Mrs. Garvey for their thoughtful discussions of my paper (this issue). I appreciate that they approached my paper from different theoretical perspectives. Bonovitz presents his response within a Relational model while Garvey offers a Kleinian frame of reference. In response to Bonovitz’s critique, I address distinctions as they occur between primary and secondary

Three Black patients training to be psychotherapists explore experiences of racial difference, rupture and repair with their White psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Therapists often fail to identify moments of rupture, particularly in relation to racial difference. Patient perspectives offer not simply a different voice but a different invitation to dialogue with transformative potential. Patients powerfully

In this article, I engage with apparent absences in our clinical work and our writings on the clinical encounter itself, when race becomes salient between patient and therapist in the room. Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida on absence and presence, I suggest that despite representational absences in our clinical work and writings, that these nevertheless signal a spectral presence of sorts, that

The paper discusses clinical issues raised by three Black patient/trainee/therapists (this issue) concerning working with three White therapists at moments of race inflected ruptures followed by repair. It asks questions pertaining to race relations in the consulting room and beyond given that in South Africa unlike in North America Black people are in political power and are a numerical majority albeit

The accounts of three Black authors (also patients and therapists), Matee, Jwili, and Vilakazi, offer a unique opportunity to expand understandings of racial trauma and racial dynamics in psychotherapy, and call for systemic change in psychoanalysis toward racial equity and inclusivity. This commentary elaborates on the issue of racial trauma within our profession, and the persistent disconnection

Voices of privilege and power dominate our profession. In this paper, we reflect on the process of writing together about racially constellated rupture and repair between Black patient/trainee and White therapist. In the project we reflect upon, the Black patient/trainee’s voice was privileged, subverting the more typical voice of the therapist. Furthermore, the project involved a collaboration between

(2020). Abandoned by Time. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 630-631.

(2020). Analytic Life Amidst the Coronavirus II. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 627-627.

(2020). Connecting during a Paradoxical Time. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 631-632.

This paper examines the problem of white liberal guilt from a Kleinian perspective, considering both the reparative potential of guilt in the depressive position, as well as the ways in which racial guilt can become diverted to an internal experience focused more on the self than on the harmed other, inspiring ways of thinking and acting that have little to do with repair. Drawing especially from the

(2020). Gravity. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 641-642.

(2020). Distrust, Panic and Denial … or Hope? Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 635-636.

(2020). Critical Care. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 638-639.

(2020). Musings on Zoom Fatigue. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 641-641.

In recent years I have become interested in Bion and neo-Bionian field theory, but the origin of my interest in dreaming does not lie in scholarly or clinical sources. The source of the idea of the dream sense is my own experience. After addressing that point, I reject what appears to be Colombo’s impression (this issue) that detailed inquiry is necessarily the basis of interpersonal and relational

(2020). Prana. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 632-633.

In this paper, Dr. Kali Cyrus thoughtfully responds to Dr. Jane Caflisch’s comments (this issue) on the schizoid-inducing nature of racial conflict for white people. Using personal and professional experiences confronting racially complex dilemmas, Dr. Cyrus describes why ultimately, repair of racial trauma may be impossible for white people to achieve but is nevertheless worth the pursuit.

(2020). April in Corona. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 639-641.