{"title":"Colonial Echoes in the Psyche: Collective Trauma in Puerto Rico's Postcolonial Condition.","authors":"John R Muñiz González","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I explore the psychological and social consequences of Puerto Rico's colonial status through the lens of psychoanalysis and those of liberation theology, such as Gustavo Gutierrez and James Cone. Drawing on the foundational work of Sigmund Freud and then others such as Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Ranjana Khanna, and Ignacio Martín-Baró, I examine how racial stratification, colonial violence, and national repression manifest in the unconscious defenses of Puerto Rican subjectivity. I give special attention to the 1950 Jayuya Uprising and the U.S. bombing of the town, which serve as emblematic events of colonial trauma and historical erasure. I conclude with recommendations for decolonial psychological practices and educational reforms to heal (<i>therapeuo</i>) collective trauma in Puerto Rico and other postcolonial societies. Furthermore, I document how I plan to bring psychoanalytic ideas to help people on the island of Puerto Rico and the motivation for this enterprise.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 4","pages":"443-456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811597","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":"Five Approaches to Religion and Spirituality in the Psychoanalytic Setting.","authors":"Samuel Pauker","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.403","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.4.403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since Freud's rejection of religion and spirituality as a collective neurosis, psychoanalysts have come to appreciate new perspectives on these ethereal matters. This article focuses on five psychoanalytic approaches to matters of religion and spirituality. Psychoanalytic work is not merely intended to analyze the linear and logical. We are dedicated to acknowledging the prelinguistic, unconscious, and oceanic sensations that are intangible but very real to our patients. Enhancing clinical awareness of the ways religion and spirituality influence our patients is especially significant today because our patients' spiritual sensibilities may not fit into traditional definitions.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 4","pages":"403-424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145811613","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}
João Gama-Marques, Elias Barreto, Filipe Arantes-Gonçalves, Guilherme Rui Canta, Joana Henriques-Calado
{"title":"Wandering Among People Experiencing Homelessness: An Argument for Marontology.","authors":"João Gama-Marques, Elias Barreto, Filipe Arantes-Gonçalves, Guilherme Rui Canta, Joana Henriques-Calado","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.327","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.327","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this evocative response to a recent article published in <i>The Psychoanalytic Review,</i> the authors revisit the theme of wandering among the homeless. Attentive to the myths and syndromes named after them, to the psychoanalytic tradition and to the field of neuropsychiatry, they focus on the nameless psychotic patients living and dying homeless in the fourth world, and on the approach termed marontology, utilized by António Bento.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"327-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092694","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 and Theoretical Reflections on Complex Developmental Trauma.","authors":"Janet Lee Bachant","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.277","DOIUrl":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution, aided by clinical material, highlights the impact of early trauma on the structuring of the mental organization that patients bring to the therapeutic situation. Its focus is on how trauma organizes the mind/brain in childhood. Understanding the centrality of this process, often referred to as <i>complex developmental trauma, relational trauma,</i> or <i>developmental trauma disorder,</i> requires an appreciation of how early psychological development systematizes and organizes patients' patterns of relating to self and others. Changing how we think about the nature of complex developmental trauma enables both patients and therapists to better work through its enduring psychological imprint, a framework that creates significant challenges to growth and change.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"277-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092615","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":"From Object Relations to Public Relations: Making Psychodynamic Theory Accessible.","authors":"Stephanie Foster","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.313","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution advocates for the clarity and accessibility of psychoanalytic writing and public communications. Reflecting on her own experience as a clinician and a reader, the author argues that the excessive use of jargon contributes to a musty air of impenetrability and partly accounts for the marginalization of psychoanalysis within the current mental health landscape.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"313-325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092612","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 Spirit I Learned: Interview with Roy Schafer (January 26, 2004).","authors":"Aleksandra Wagner","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"339-347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092654","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":"Analysts Go Live: 15 Years With <i>New Books in Psychoanalysis</i>.","authors":"Tracy Morgan","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This contribution, dedicated to the podcast <i>New Books in Psychoanalysis,</i> sheds light on the rise of media presence in psychoanalytic discourse in the first decades of the 21st century. Through a personal narrative its founder reflects on the place of the project in her own formation as a psychoanalyst and on the challenges, joys, and limits of psychoanalytic dialogue embodied in the intimacy of the interview genre.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"349-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092643","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":"A Proper Death: Anne Dufourmantelle and the Traumatic Uncanny.","authors":"Evan Malater","doi":"10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2025.112.3.303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this homage to Anne Dufourmantelle, French philosopher and psychoanalyst, the author traces uncanny resonances between her tragic death and case examples in her writing. He terms them the <i>traumatic uncanny</i> and addresses the role of the witness to the traumatic uncanny as being a witness to the resonance between another's life and death that puts one in the role of witnessing in place of the absent other. To witness trauma can have a redemptive value; to be the witness of the traumatic uncanny brings no obvious redemption. Instead, it brings the witness to question whether it would be better not to speak of it. It is argued that to proceed to speak of it is consistent with the spirit of psychoanalytic writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":39855,"journal":{"name":"Psychoanalytic Review","volume":"112 3","pages":"303-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145092662","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}