{"title":"A Review of Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders by Clara Mucci","authors":"K. Perlman","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000803","url":null,"abstract":"In Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation for Personality Disorders, Clara Mucci has set herself a monumental task: the integration of neuroscience, attachment theory, infant research, and psychoanalysis in one volume that comprehensively addresses psychodynamic work with borderline patients. This impressive book is complex, scholarly, dense, and multi-layered, and offers much that a relational psychoanalytic reader will find useful and thought-provoking. The overused word “interdisciplinary” is unavoidable when talking about Mucci’s work. Mucci has an intimidating resume: having reached the rank of full professor of English literature and Shakespeare studies at the University of Chieti (by way of Atlanta, where she earned a PhD in literature and psychoanalysis), she later retrained in clinical psychology and psychotherapy, earning a second doctorate and becoming a faculty member in Chieti’s department of psychology, as well as a practicing psychoanalyst and supervisor. Currently, she is full professor of psychology at the University of Bergamo, where she heads the doctoral program. The author of several monographs on Shakespeare, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, she has more recently published widely on trauma, mourning, and forgiveness. In a previous volume, Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma: Intergenerational Transmission, Psychoanalytic Treatment, and the Dynamics of Forgiveness (Mucci, 2013), she offers a synthesis of contemporary approaches to the understanding and treatment of trauma, and she has also co-edited, with Giuseppe Cravaro, a collection of essays on Mauro Mancia’s notion of the “unrepressed unconscious” and implicit memory. Borderline Bodies, like her","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"118 33","pages":"125 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41248382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire","authors":"Janine de Peyer","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.2000798","url":null,"abstract":"Why is so little written about the female analyst’s sexual desire? Presenting a case where an older, cisgendered, heterosexual female analyst is unmoored by erotic stirrings toward her younger, cisgendered, heterosexual male patient, de Peyer challenges cultural and gender prohibitions against the acknowledgment of female analytic erotic arousal. Can the female analyst be both maternal and sexual? Engaging the complexities of an intersubjective collision between the analyst’s desire and the patient’s apparent absence of desire, this paper explores the emergence of dissociative transference-countertransference dynamics, along with culturally embedded associations to gender, power, the incest taboo, and the potential for ethical boundary violation.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45450981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interview with Koichi Togashi","authors":"Jill Choder-Goldman","doi":"10.1080/1551806x.2021.2000805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806x.2021.2000805","url":null,"abstract":"In Global Perspectives, we bring you interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world in an effort to explore the influence of culture on training, theory development, and adherence to clinical technique and psychoanalytic practice in general.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"130 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46949108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where Is Peace? (A Few Therapy Moments Spread Over Time)","authors":"M. Eigen","doi":"10.1080/1551806x.2021.2000799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806x.2021.2000799","url":null,"abstract":"An extended therapy vignette touches dialectics between self-attack and moments of peace. The patient draws on implicit trauma worlds in tension with a deep sense of strength and beauty, as well as helplessness. Change occurs in partly unknown ways, growing out of therapy talk, sensing, and felt interaction. Therapeutic exercises add to the background mix, making use of fusions-oppositions of self-attack and moments of peace, both adding to growth.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"74 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42168411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mortality, Identity & Trans-Subjectivity: A Discussion of Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot’s “The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body”","authors":"M. O. Slavin","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.1988464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1988464","url":null,"abstract":"Shlomit’s Yadlin-Gadot’s paper, “The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body,” carries us into a bit of a wild, carnival-like experience: a dazzling array of images, disguises, and visual metaphors delivered with a powerful immediacy. I will stay as close as I can to what Yadlin-Gadot has presented, while at the same time trying to translate her brilliant conceptual array of terms about Covid-19, carnival and trans-subjectivity in a way that may help us define them while touching on the big questions she poses in her dual ending: What can relational thought offer in times of Covid-19, and what can Covid-19 offer relational thought in terms of a challenge? Or, where does the carnivalesque take us in terms of theory, and where does theory take us in terms of the carnivalesque?","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"66 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42976531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body","authors":"Shlomit Yadlin-Gadot","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.1971013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1971013","url":null,"abstract":"Covid-19 has affected our lives in innumerable and formerly unimaginable ways. Among its effects is the threat to our identity in terms of broken bodily boundaries, severed social contacts, and a blurring of our group belongings. A response to this mingled physio-social threat has been an unprecedented surge of trans-subjectivity, as a form of intersubjectivity that is both elevated and reduced. In this paper, this phenomenon is explored in its carnivalesque manifestation, expressing itself as both a revolt against state control and an effort to re-appropriate a sense of bodily self and other. I illustrate these ideas with theoretical, visual and clinical materials.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"19 1","pages":"46 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49045087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can I Get A Witness?: On Being Seen and Heard in a Relational Psychoanalytic Treatment","authors":"Cynthia Chalker","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.1941638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1941638","url":null,"abstract":"The cries have been loud and silent. Destruction and Stillness. Most of us have not seen our patients in person for close to a year. The tables have seemingly turned. The ways of being connected to our patients and ourselves have shifted. Who do we “see” in our electronic devices? What do our patients “see” when they encounter us in sessions? What could we not “see” in each other when we sat in the same room? What is the role of Relational Psychoanalysis in helping us “see” a way forward?","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"18 1","pages":"374 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49291801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dear Fears","authors":"D. Sachdev","doi":"10.1080/1551806x.2021.1959200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806x.2021.1959200","url":null,"abstract":"I have a new office, close to home. I walk there, without the angst of clients catching a glimpse of me behind the screen. In fact I now approach each new scene as if they can see all of me—the human underneath the king’s robe. And that it doesn’t matter. If anything, it helps them to talk more openly about themselves. At least I hope all of this will be true. I don’t want to “go back.” Only to move forward. To me, to make it is no longer to “beat” my clients to session, but rather to join them there. And to tuck my son into bed every night.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"18 1","pages":"423 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45722937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"As American as Apple Pie: Anatomy of an Event","authors":"Gurmeet S. Kanwal","doi":"10.1080/1551806x.2021.1953873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806x.2021.1953873","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores many different dimensions of the event of September 11, 2001. Events are not easy to define or delimit, in time, space, causality or consequence. In this essay, I reflect on, and revisit, the impact of 9/11 on me as an Indian-American immigrant, and a psychoanalyst living and practicing in New York City. I examine the ways in which the event has changed for me over time, and how it has changed me, and my relationship to the culture at large, over the last two decades.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"18 1","pages":"336 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47666285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Beebe, K. Sossin, Phyllis F. Cohen, Sally Moskowitz, Rita Reiswig, Suzi Tortora, Donna Demetri Friedman
{"title":"Close Observation of Mother-Infant Interactive Process in the Wake of Traumatic Loss: The September 11, 2001 Primary Prevention Project","authors":"B. Beebe, K. Sossin, Phyllis F. Cohen, Sally Moskowitz, Rita Reiswig, Suzi Tortora, Donna Demetri Friedman","doi":"10.1080/1551806X.2021.1953869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1953869","url":null,"abstract":"The 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster is a powerful moment in our history. We feel honored to be invited by Rachel Altstein to participate in this issue of Psychoanalytic Perspectives. In the current paper, we take a retrospective look at some early work we did with the women who were pregnant on September 11, 2001, when they were tragically widowed as the towers fell. We offer close observation of interactive process in two dyads at infant age four months in order to try to understand more about mother-infant interaction in the context of traumatic grief and loss. We narrate a descriptive story of the interactive process based on viewing the films of face-to-face interactions, first in real-time, followed by slow-motion video, followed by frame-by frame viewing in some sections. Because human face-to-face communication is so rapid, complex, and subtle, it is impossible to see the nuances of communication in real time. As the working group of The September 11, 2001 Primary Prevention Project, we viewed the videos together many times and gradually, through discussion, reflection and review, generated a narrative that represents our clinical view.","PeriodicalId":38115,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Perspectives","volume":"18 1","pages":"314 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44987254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}