Notes on Psychoanalytic Books | Edited by Nicole Adrian Sanchez and

This issue is a sequel to an earlier issue of the same title. The idea is to ask authors to write notes and thoughts about important books past and present, on psychoanalytic topics or on topic adjacent to psychoanalysis. Articles are meant to be interesting reactions to the books, important and meaningful in their own right, rather than simply reviews.

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Trauma | Edited by Eva Papiasvili and Robert Calcaterra

The issue, commemorating Harold Blum, presents pluralistic multi-disciplinary record and findings of the Contemporary Views of Trauma project, which Blum chaired, during 2017-2024, with the participation of psychoanalysts in dialogue with neuroscientists. Multiperspectival theoretical formulations of evolving definitions and differential diagnostic issues, global perspectives on multiple dimensions of trauma, impact of early development and most up to date neurobiological research are always related to clinical implications and context. In other words, research and theory comes alive in the clinical situation throughout. Otto Kernberg, Diana Diamond, Wendy Olesker, Louis Ripoll, Robert Scharf, Douglas Van der Heide and neuroscientists Christina Alberini and Todd Sacktor are among the issue contributors.

Climate Anxiety | Edited by Rita Teusch, Delia Kostner, Marcia Zimmerman and Linda Emanuel.

A new Climate Conversations Group at BPSI has been meeting monthly for 8 sesions to consider papers and presentations from a group of authors who have been working at the intersection of psychoanalysis and climate change. The group is clinically focused group and has considered cases and case-driven theoretical advances from schools of thought that range from Freud to Kohut to Neuropsychoanalysis. In March the group will parse out its thoughts for a proposed PI issue. We expect to invite authors and speakers from the Climate Conversations Group. In addition we will consider the very interesting thought that was raised at the PI meeting to republish portions of Harold Searle’s 1960 book on the non-human environment.

Inviting hate into the Psychoanalytic Relationship | Edited by Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold:

New pathways to understanding hate between analysts and patients have opened up since psychoanalysis has recently evolved to include the political as well as maladies previously considered unanalyzable, such as madness, autism and sexual difference, This PI issue will address how race, political difference, madness, disability, etc. have given rise to experiences of hate in the analytic relationship. Questions that require attention include: Is hate always present in loving relationships? How might analysts address hate when they sense it is present? Can analysts heal a patient who is hated?

Report from the Existential Maturation Group | Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD

IPA and Smart Foundation funded, IRB approved research project on psychoanalytic understandings of how people manage the reality of mortality. We used four cases, three adults and one child, all of whom are dealing either with their own imminent demise or the sudden death of an attachment figure. We seven analysts worked together using Bernardi’s Three-Layer Method to engage in a systematic psychoanalytic process of case analyses.

The PI issue will consist of a series of papers, case reports, and descriptions of methodological processes that have to do with how concepts from the foundations of psychoanalysis come together in a coherent way to understand how the human mind deals with our finitude.

The group consists of:
Stephanie Robin Brody, Robert Galatzer-Levy, Joseph Schwartz , Molly R Witten , Denia Barrett , Phil Lebovitz MD

Early Analytic/Therapeutic Encounters | Edited by Sandy Hershberg and John Paddock:

This issue will consist of a collection of recollections of relational experiences that were transformational for the authors in developing a psychoanalytic identity. We will explore what these transformational experiences taught our authors about: psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process; their professional identity and vitality; and the human condition. We will also look at the extent to which psychoanalysis spoke to writer as a useful way to help their patients rewrite their internal narratives.

At this point, we are in the final stages of editing. Shortly we will begin composing the issue’s Prologue and Epilogue. We anticipate submitting it to the publication queue in the next two months.

Expanding Reality and Identity in a Technological World | Edited by Sien Rivera

Technologies not only change how humans see and engage with the world, they also can change what it means to be human. From virtual reality to artificial intelligence, from video games to immersive role playing, an understanding of how shifting roles of technologies in culture and society influence the intrapsychic experience of one’s identity. This PI issue will seek to grow psychoanalytic understandings of self and reality by drawing on multidisciplinary fields. These include, but are not limited to studies of emerging technologies and changing concepts of humanity.

Rediscovering Our Humanity: The Significance of Psycho-Social Resonance | Edited by Paula Kliger and Lois Oppenheim

A year-long symposium series – in which colleagues, national and international, explored through a psychoanalytic lens the “State of the World” – was initiated by a day-long meeting on January 27, 2024, that was co-organized by Dr. Paula Kliger and Dr. Lois Oppenheim and co-sponsored by the Harlem Family Institute and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. This collaborative effort, born of a rich and ongoing dialogue between Drs. Oppenheim and Kliger during a time of increasing national and global violence, aimed at addressing social and emotional implications of the lived experience of the inhumane. It aimed at exploring a human propensity to lean toward destructive responses to resolve conflict, often with an inability to recognize more adaptive humanistic approaches toward solutions. Focused not only on what is clearly horrific and destructive in the world today but, also, on how, within a psychoanalytic frame, one might understand what could shift in our social unconscious to put an end to the repetition of these destructive events, the symposium presenters explored what might be done to build emotional strength and readiness to engage with those different from ourselves. They explored the meaning of shared power, how we might realize adaptive responses and thereby deconstruct aggressive tendencies, resolve hatreds, and how we might better increase our understanding of our interconnectedness.

The Psychoanalyst in the Community and the World | Edited by Stephen Bernstein, M.D. MEL/CAROL

Black Analysts Write. | Edited by Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

LGBTQ+: Losses, Gains, Bans, Triumphs and Quivers, Volume III | Edited by Stacy Berlin, Psy.D. & Estelle Shane, Ph.D. CAROL

Psychedelics & Psychoanalysis/Psychotherapy | Edited by Adrian Kind, M.A., M.A.

The Legacy of Mary Main. | Edited by Robbie Duschinsky, Ph.D.

Expanding Reality and Identity in a Technological World | Edited by Sien Riviera, M.D.

Psychoanalytic Pluralism. | Edited by Igor Romanov, Ph.D. & Bob Hinshelwood MB., BS., FRCP

Contemporary Interpretation of Dreams. Issue Editors: | Edited by Ph.D. & Daniel Goldin, Psy.D.

Playing in Analytic Space. | Edited by Judith Chertoff, M.D.

From Erotic Transference to Love in the Field. | Edited by Shir Shanun, Psy.D.

Rethinking Identity Creation: Developmental, Cultural & Clinical Processes. | Edited by Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, Ph.D.

A Requiem for Narcissism? | Edited by Susana Martinez, Ph.D.

The Asian American Experience | Edited by Kris Yi, Ph.D.

Kinship: Keystones to Connection and Disconnection | Edited by Lisa Koshkarian, Ph.D.

The Primacy of the Father. | Edited by Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D.

Psychoanalysis & Philosophy | Edited by Daniel S. Posner, M.D.

Early Analytic/Therapeutic Encounters. | Edited by John Paddock, Ph.D., ABPP & Sandra Hershberg, M.D.

Digital Cultures | Edited by Adriana Couto Silva, M.A., M.S., L.C.P.C. & Patricia Clough, Ph.D., L.P.

Degrees of Openness in Psychoanalysis | Edited by S. Montana Katz, Ph.D. (deceased). & Josie Oppenheim, Psya.D.

Cooperation & Competition: The Ying & the Yang of Evolution and Development. | Edited by Mauricio Cortina, M.D.

Phillip Bromberg’s Contribution to Psychoanalysis. | Edited by Henry E. Smith, M.D.

Transference Focused Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents | Edited by Lina Normandin, Ph.D., Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., Karin Ensink & Allen Weiner, Ph.D. CAROL

The Kohut Circle: The Pioneers. | Edited by Estelle Shane, Ph.D. & Melvin Bornstein, M.D.