{"title":"\"I Got Nothing, Ma, to Live Up To\": Bob Dylan and the Artist as Activist.","authors":"Joseph Helmreich","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.67","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.67","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this essay, the author analyzes Bob Dylan's contentious mid60s break with the folk movement, exploring ways in which it may have been telegraphed by his lyrics, while also acknowledging the pitfalls of seeking psychological or biographical insights into artists via their work, generally and particularly with regard to Dylan. From there, the author explores the fallout of Dylan's pivot from overtly political work, and the larger debate over what roles politics and activism should play in art and literature. Finally, the author offers two key ways in which this exploration of Dylan could be relevant to analysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 1","pages":"67-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469510","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":"<i>Phantom of the Opera</i>: Father-Daughter Incest, Trauma, and Recovery.","authors":"Paul F Giannandrea","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.61","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>I offer a psychoanalytic interpretation of <i>The Phantom of the Opera</i> as an allegory of father-daughter incest and psychological recovery. Christine Daaé's journey illustrates the internal dynamics of trauma-denial, dissociation, and identification with the abuser-while her final confrontation with the Phantom symbolizes the reclamation of agency and selfhood. Drawing on symbolic actions such as unmasking and descent into the unconscious, the analysis explores how narrative, performance, and relational support can reflect the nonlinear process of healing. Ultimately, Christine's transformation from victim to survivor reveals the potential for integration and autonomy through insight, confrontation, and emotional truth.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 1","pages":"61-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469662","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":"Clinical Movement Toward Integration With Obsessive Personality Disorder: The Fear of Losing Love and the Need for Control.","authors":"Robert Waska","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.1","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Case material is used to illustrate a Kleinian-informed psychoanalytic approach to working with a patient captured by obsessive cycles of controlling others along with the threat of losing their love. Obsessive disorders involve either controlling the self and the other or feeling confined and controlled by the self and the other. These phantasy states bring on intense fear of difference, fear of the unknown, and fear of abandonment. During treatment, as the patient improves, there is often a fluctuation between more disturbed and more balanced mental experiences of life. The Kleinian-informed psychoanalytic approach demonstrated in this case material aims to address this lack of psychological integration and help patients regain or discover psychological clarity, stability, and balance in how they feel, think, and relate.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469667","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}
Mark L Ruffalo, Alex M Ray, Abigail Rasol, Chiara Staal
{"title":"Psychosis in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Neglected Clinical Phenomenon.","authors":"Mark L Ruffalo, Alex M Ray, Abigail Rasol, Chiara Staal","doi":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.23","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2026.113.1.23","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychotic symptoms are a prevalent yet underrecognized feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), with studies estimating their occurrence in up to 60% of patients. Despite their clinical and theoretical relevance, these phenomena are marginalized in contemporary diagnostic frameworks, which emphasize affective instability and interpersonal dysfunction while minimizing impairments in reality testing. We review the historical roots of BPD as a schizophrenia-like condition and examine the phenomenology of hallucinations and delusions in this population. Drawing on psychoanalytic object-relations theory, particularly the contributions of Otto Kernberg and John Gunderson, we propose that psychotic symptoms in BPD serve an object-restitutive function, preserving internal relational continuity amid psychic disintegration. We argue that these symptoms are neither incidental nor epiphenomenal but reflect core features of the disorder that warrant greater attention in diagnosis and treatment. Improved clinical recognition and theoretically informed interventions are essential to addressing this neglected dimension of BPD.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"113 1","pages":"23-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147469614","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":"Guilt Without Fault.","authors":"Jeffrey Helmreich","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.425","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many suffer intense guilt feelings when they harm others, even when they did so blamelessly and they know it. For these faultless injurers, therapy and other treatments face a distinct challenge: the subjects experience their guilt feelings as fitting, something they should not even try to overcome, despite being fully aware that they are above criticism. Some theorists have sought to explain this resistance to treatment or consolation-what I call the normative meta-phenomenology of faultless guilt-by showing why faultless guilt can sometimes be reasonable or justified. Here I argue, to the contrary, that it cannot be justified. Instead, I try to account for faultless guilt as the way moral agents naturally experience the tension between what they have done and what they are deeply invested in not doing. On this understanding, faultless injurers are bound to feel guilty, on pain of abandoning their basic moral commitments.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 4","pages":"425-442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811681","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 Mind and Soul of Bruce Springsteen.","authors":"Arnold Breitbart","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.457","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 4","pages":"457-470"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811693","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":"If the Shoe Fits, Wear It? Working Through the Cinderella Complex.","authors":"Suzan Sherman","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.381","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.381","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The premise of Colette Dowling's <i>The Cinderella Complex</i> was a scalding one when it was first published in 1981, but the book struck a deep chord and became an instant bestseller. Nowadays the \"Cinderella Complex\" might seem like a dated concept, but it remains strikingly relevant for two of my patients. Both hold deeply entrenched Cinderella fantasies that arose from having served as narcissistic extensions. Through exploring and reconsidering various versions of the fairytale that parallel my patients' own histories, I attempt to work through their deep sense of emotional impoverishment, from which they might only be rescued by a more powerful other.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 4","pages":"381-402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811606","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}