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{"title":"One life heals another: Beginnings, maturity, outcomes of a vocation","authors":"G. Maniadakis","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2063583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2063583","url":null,"abstract":"must run twice as fast as that” (Carroll, 1865; reprint 1993, p. 79). On the other hand, it is clear in psychoanalysis there is little consensus: when discussing analytic techniques Charles Brenner wrote: “All are agreed that an analyst listens while the patient talks and then intervenes at what is considered to be an appropriate time, but there agreement ends” (Brenner, 2007, p. 49). However, there are also some surprises. Stefana makes a continuous and constant crosslink between the theoretical positions of the various scholars. This allows the reader to “fly” from one continent to another, following the clinical and theoretical manifestations of the concept of countertransference. Thus we can appreciate authors who remain adherent to the clinic and the therapeutic encounter with the patient, and others who slide towards theories that can appear decidedly abstract. In fact, by reading these pages over and over, new things can be found. Sometimes we pause to reflect on a sentence; other times we are induced to explore other books and correspondence. Sometimes, the reader can take notes to follow up their curiosity of wanting to know more: for example, to gain more knowledge on the Scottish psychoanalyst Denis V. Carpy, or on Otto Gross’s (mutual) analysis with Jung. Stefana closes his work with a chapter called “Some non-conclusive considerations”. Wisely, he writes:","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"58 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44859949","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":"Hezbollah: Lebanon’s identified patient?","authors":"Hana Salaam Abdel‐Malek","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.2021284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.2021284","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, I interpret Hezbollah’s birth and role in Lebanon’s sociopolitical life from a group and family psychoanalytic perspective. In particular, I examine whether Hezbollah, as one of Lebanon’s “children,” can be seen as the “designated patient” and “symptom” of its large family, nation-state “incestual” dynamics and complicated separation and individuation process. As a designated patient, Hezbollah performs the double-sided function of gluing its fragmented nation-state together while carrying the weight of being its breaking force. In this logic, Hezbollah’s paradoxical role in the Lebanese nation-state family would be similar to that of a “scapegoat/Messiah,” who carries both the family’s incestual dynamics and internal tensions and its hope for a solid and cohesive nation-state identity. To build a cohesive nation-state identity, Hezbollah’s ideology acts as a prosthesis for Lebanon’s narcissistic fragility, which replenishes the narcissistic hemorrhage of its perforated bodily and psychic envelopes. I also reflect on whether a national mediation process informed by a group psychoanalytic approach could help Lebanon constitute a more functional ego-nation-state and thus renounce the need for a designated patient. Hezbollah would be better capable of giving up its pathological ideological position.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"46 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45238142","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":"Unresolved shadows: German encounters in the consulting room","authors":"Stefanie Sedlacek","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2022.2040745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2022.2040745","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The reunification of Germany took place in 1990. As an analyst brought up in the former West Germany, but practicing in Berlin, I have observed over and over again that patients who come from what used to be East Germany (German Democratic Republic) – even those born after 1990 – have a strong need to distinguish between East Germans and West Germans. In their minds, Germany seems still to be a divided country. A split identity appears to have been internalized, producing “West German” and “East German” racists who despise, in the “other” kind of German, a devalued aspect of what being German means. I have tried for many years to understand the hidden meanings of this defensive maneuver for the analytic couple, and beyond this for the relation between the East and West German societies. Here I discuss these unresolved shadows in German identity. Analyses in Germany may be dominated by the splits they provoke, which interfere with patients’ capacities to think. Patients may relate instead to a “German” object that is impersonal, nonempathic, and rejects the idea of an independent internal world. The defensive use of this object in the transference has to be continually worked through in the analysis.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"12 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42480199","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 riddle of time and space","authors":"A. Pajoohandeh","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1957146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1957146","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Time is the most important feature or fundamental describer of normal human experience and is also the most eminent forgotten element of psychoanalysis. Freud believes that the unconscious is timeless and believes that it perceives any given moment as new and immaculate. He makes very little effort to illustrate the origin of time; however, he points to the function of the Pcpt-Cs as the key to this riddle. After him, fewer psychoanalysts can be found who have systemically researched this subject, except for André Green, Hartocolles, Arlow, and Sabbadini. In this paper, I have tried to illustrate how the sense of time is related to libidinal cathexis. I have displayed, through some pathological situations such as melancholy, mania, and schizophrenia, and a clinical vignette, that the more ego invests libido in the objects, the faster we sense the passage of time and the more it withdraws libido from the objects into itself, the slower time passes. Finally, using my previous viewpoint about transitional time objects and phenomena, I have presented some ideas about an object relation account of the origin of the sense of time.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"31 1","pages":"108 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47907363","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":"How the idea of ⁣⁣an IFPS journal came about","authors":"M. Ermann","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.1998617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.1998617","url":null,"abstract":"In 1983 the Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (DPG) sent me as a delegate to the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS). My trip to New York was associated with many expectations. As a young analyst at that time, I was particularly curious about meeting foreign colleagues. My expectation of meeting a venerable circle of analysts there was, however, harshly disappointed. I found myself disillusioned in a discouraged and haphazard committee that was desperately looking for prospects for the future. After a successful IFPS forum in Berlin some years before, the society was apparently exhausted and they were looking for someone willing to take the chair and lead the federation through the crisis. There was a lack of spirit that held the federation together, of money to finance future-oriented activities, and of personnel willing to commit to the idea of a liberal international psychoanalysis. Ann Turkel of the William Alanson White Society in New York finally agreed to take responsibility. She received the necessary support from the Executive Committee and from her society. Then we were looking for a brilliant idea for the renewal of the federation. In this situation, the foundation of an international psychoanalytic journal appeared to be an option for the future. It was created in the corridors in front of the meeting and lecture rooms and became a redeeming thought that especially inspired the younger ones among us. And so the International Forum of Psychoanalysis (IFP) was born in a longterm and sometimes arduous process. As far as I can remember, it was the Swedish colleagues from the Society for Holistic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, above all Jan Stensson and Christer Sjödin, who took up the idea of an IFPS journal and persevered despite the many concerns and reservations that were associated with it. They found support from individuals such as Jochen Kemper from Rio de Janeiro and Arne Jemstedt from Stockholm, who helped drive the project forward. I joined in with the intention of using a journal to generate a stronger response to the IFPS’s idea of a liberal international psychoanalysis among the members of the German-speaking societies, among whom there were hardly any recognizable connections. By founding the Germanlanguage magazine Forum der Psychoanalyse, I also had editorial experience that I was able to bring to the project. However, it took years before the idea became reality and the first issue appeared. This is how the IFP came about, and now we are honoring its 30th anniversary with this issue. In retrospect, the journal’s start in the 1980s and 90s has paid off. The IFP has developed into an organ with a broad spectrum of topics from the various regions and continents and, with articles from all psychoanalytic directions, represents the whole wealth of ideas that are represented in the IFPS, its member societies, and beyond. It is a true reflection of the diversity in whic","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"201 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42817656","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 30 years of the International Forum of Psychoanalysis","authors":"Eliana Rodrigues Pereira Mendes","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2021.1990404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2021.1990404","url":null,"abstract":"The vitality and competence of an institution is measured by the importance of its contributions to the social and intellectual environment in which it finds itself. In a federation of psychoanalytic societies this fact prevails. The return of a result to the social environment is accomplished not only by meeting the demands that are made to psychoanalysis, but also by the written record of advances in psychoanalytic theory and in the clinic itself. Capturing the pulsating movement of psychoanalysis and expanding it to the social is a give back and a duty of those who have specific knowledge and want to share their results. The International Forum of Psychoanalysis (IFP), in its 30 years of existence, has shown itself to be this instrument of quality within the psychoanalytic world. In a scenario in which digital publications predominate, due to the difficulty of making paper editions, the IFP (which offers both versions) differs in that it manages to maintain itself as a concrete object in an immediatist and fast-paced era such as the current one. In 1999, as the person responsible for the task of being a regional editor (for South America) of the IFP, I had my first meeting with the editorial board of the journal. This meeting, specifically for this purpose, took place in Amsterdam, the most favorable place for the other participants from Europe. Arriving from the southern part of the Meridional Hemisphere, and having a mother tongue spoken by few countries (without great relevance on the world stage), I had the pleasant surprise of being listened to and respected by the journal’s founding editor, Dr. Jan Stensson, and his coeditor-in-chef, Dr Christer Sjödin. A little frightened by the task and its responsibility, I found in the two Swedish psychoanalysts great human beings with whom I got on well immediately. There were also my colleagues: Valerie Tate Angel (from the USA), Romulo Aguillaume (from Spain), Carlo Bonomi and Marco Conci (from Italy), Michael Ermann (from Germany), Maarit Arpo (from Finland), and the friendly and competent Mona Serenius, the journal’s general manager. After that meeting, we always had others on the occasions of the international fora. Although I already had experience of editingmagazines in Brazil, this new opportunity gradually gave me more resourcefulness to listen to and speak with colleagues from other countries, and to get acquainted with the situation of psychoanalysis in a broader scenario. We used to discuss the subjects of each issue of the journal and also the theme of the upcoming issues. The highlight of this interaction, for me, was the chance for regional editors to be guest editors for special issues of the IFP. I considered this fact a great opportunity to show something of what is done in psychoanalysis in Brazil, where much work and great dedication goes into this relatively new area of human knowledge. The first issue I prepared was Volume 11, 2002, No. 2, whose theme was: “Social Realities and","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"210 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48380525","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":"Looking back – Moving forward","authors":"V. T. Angel","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2021.1993332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2021.1993332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"203 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45761234","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":"Interview with Thomas Ogden","authors":"N. Gougoulis, Katryn Driffield","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2021.1953140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2021.1953140","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this interview Thomas Ogden freely speaks about himself and the evolution of his work, with particular regard for the analytic authors he values the most and their specific language. We also learn about his very meaningful relationships with both Bryce Boyer and James Grotstein, and about how much writing means to him. The interview was conducted in February 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown per email correspondence, the aim of the authors being to make their French colleagues more familiar with Thomas Ogden's life and work.","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"223 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44859568","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":"On psychoanalytic journals and the International Forum of Psychoanalysis","authors":"M. Gonzalez-Torres, Rómulo Aguillaume","doi":"10.1080/0803706X.2021.2006777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2021.2006777","url":null,"abstract":"Our society – the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) – started in 1962 and the International Forum of Psychoanalysis (IFP) began publication 30 years later, in 1992. Jan Stensson, in his first editorial message, reflected on the difficulties involved in the realization of a journal (Stensson, 1992). He recalled that psychoanalysis is rooted in the oral tradition but that the passage from the oral to the written is not impossible. Why then the need to found a journal? Psychoanalytic journals are an expression of the doctrinal positions of the association that founds them. They often begin with a justification, almost always of a political nature. The change from the Internationale Zeitschrift für ärztliche Psychoanalyse to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis was based above all on the strength of English-speaking institutions and not only on the predominance of the English language, as is the case today. There was also another justification of greater interest: to defend the purity of psychoanalysis. The struggles taking place within and outside the institution were transferred to the new journal. Erich Fromm – one of the founders of the IFPS – and Jacques Lacan are good examples of the exclusion of two authors who did not adapt to this doctrinal purity. The IFP is marked by the founding spirit of the IFPS. A spirit that did not imply a defense of doctrinal purity, but one of an openness which broke with the narrow assumptions that then characterized other psychoanalytic groups. Today it would be inconceivable for us to understand the expulsion of a member of our societies because of their theoretical orientation. And, if we talk about the rejection of an article in a journal, today it has to do not so much with the theoretical proposal it puts forward, but with a lack of expository clarity or other aspects that we could call formal. Some would say that we have gone from a doctrinal-based censorship to a formal-based censorship. It is impossible to deny censorship: authority has a thousand faces. Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, tells us through the mouth of one of his characters that “men are not made to live like animals but to seek knowledge and virtue” (Alighieri, 2005). This search for knowledge concerns us all and certainly those professionals, like us, who dedicate our efforts to delving into what escapes the conscience of others, what determines their behavior and decisions, what is beyond their reason. Every analyst is a researcher in the most literal sense of the term. Each therapeutic encounter provides us with a possibility of surprise and with it a knowledge that allows the patient a fuller life and us a greater closeness to the unknown. Our work carries with it a responsibility: to disseminate what we have learned, to offer others the possibility of comparing their experiences with ours, and to contrast their doubts and certainties. This dissemination basically involves the presentation of our e","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"206 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47474091","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":"Introduction to the Commentaries on 30 Years of IFP","authors":"Juan Flores, C. Sjödin, M. Ermann, K. Hoffmann, Eliana Rodrigues Pereira Mendes, G. Maniadakis","doi":"10.1080/0803706x.2021.2030121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706x.2021.2030121","url":null,"abstract":"The International Forum of Psychoanalysis was first published in 1992 and had as its first Editor-inChief the Stockholm psychoanalyst Jan Stensson; he edited the journal until 2004, with Christer Sjödin joining him in the task from 1999. Christer Sjödin then edited the journal alone from 2004 until 2007, when Marco Conci joined him as a Coeditor-in-Chief. In 2014, Christer Sjödin gave up his role, and Grigoris Maniadakis was appointed as Coeditor-in-Chief in his place. The IFP has been included in the PEP-disk since 2004. As Coeditors-in-Chief of this journal, we are happy to introduce to readers the following colleagues, who were (and mostly still are) involved with our journal and whom we invited to celebrate with us the 30th anniversary of the IFP:","PeriodicalId":43212,"journal":{"name":"International Forum of Psychoanalysis","volume":"30 1","pages":"195 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46333779","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}