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{"title":"They Are All Pam","authors":"Cassandra Neyenesch","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2246003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2246003","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe author reflects on an experience with a young Laotian woman seeking an abortion in West Philadelphia in 1991. The experience led her to reflect on her mother’s abortion much earlier, following the mother’s rape.Keywords: abortionabortion storiesabortion clinicrapePhiladelphia 1991 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Station 11 is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction miniseries that ran for 10 episodes on HBO MAX about an devastating flu epidemic that wipes out humanity (see Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven_(miniseries)).2 See: Escalante-De-Mattei, S. (2022, May 9). Artists and activists banded together to tell abortion stores at an impassioned New York event. Art News. Accessed from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abortion-stories-cassandra-neyenesch-lena-chen-1234628089/ See also: https://ourabortionstories.com.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCassandra NeyeneschCassandra Neyenesch, B.A., is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer and curator. Anticipating the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she organized the first Abortion Stories: An Interactive Art Festival with psychologist Carolina Franco, which took place on May 6–8, 2022. Since then, Abortion Stories has facilitated storytelling events at public demonstrations and art shows in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, the Brooklyn Museum, Lump Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery. Her reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Latino Rebel, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Perdita.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abortion","authors":"Rosemary H. Balsam","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2258062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2258062","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractA deprivation of women’s reproductive rights has occurred by the right-wing turn in recent United States’ politics. Looking at the details of Roe v. Wade, (1973), and Dobbs (2022), the author notes the limited legal, but predominantly emotional, thinking in the Supreme Court’s opinions that led to the overturn. The contemporary legal coup is seen here as yet another age-old attempt to control the female body’s reproductive powers and capacities. Using an example, the author notes the unconscious male fear of female’s bodily self-governance that inhibits any empathy for “the other.” She also reflects on a widespread archaic unconscious horror – and thus hostility – toward the female qua female, akin to Kristeva’s description of “the abject,” which the author likens to the raw products of an aborted conception. Such graphic unconscious reactions seem to skew the Law, which here fails to uphold the logic of equal status among adult humans.Keywords: Roe v. Wade (1973)Dobbs (2022)misogynymale fear of femalesfemale autonomyarchaic female body horrors“the abject” Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Pender, a psychoanalyst, was the 2021 president of the American Psychiatric Association, and Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in the United Nations.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosemary H. BalsamRosemary H. Balsam F.R.C.Psych (Lond), M.R. C. P. (Edin), (originally from Belfast, N. Ireland), is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School; staff psychiatrist in the Yale Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Conn. Her special interests are female gender developments; young adulthoods; the body in psychic life; the work of Hans Loewald. She is on the editorial boards of PQ and American Imago. Among her honors in 2018, she received the Sigourney Award,—the first female awardee in the United States). Her most recent book is: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012, Routledge) and she is co-editing 2 books on Hans Loewald’s work, at present.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"P <scp>reamble</scp>","authors":"Kathy Bacon-Greenberg, Isheh Beck, Naomi Snider","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2252745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2252745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laying down Our Burdens","authors":"Cynthia Chalker","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2253519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2253519","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis author contends that while the Dobbs decision is certainly about abortion, it is also about women’s health in general and, more specifically and dire, Black women and their reproductive health. This article highlights how limiting access to abortion has led to the closing of centers for women’s reproductive health and the loss of preventative care. Using vignettes from her clinical practice, the author speaks to the fears and concerns of her patients of color as they make decisions concerning their health and family plans for the future. Lastly, the author offers the reader insight into how her therapeutic practice seeks to provide a space for understanding, and a quiet place in which patients can lay down their burdens long enough to catch their breath. This encourages insight and can remind us of how to reengage with the world from a stronger and more powerful place.Keywords: Dobbs v. JacksonBlackwomen of colormedical racismtherapy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authorAdditional informationNotes on contributorsCynthia ChalkerCynthia Chalker, MSS, LCSW, is a Black queer-identified clinical social worker and psychoanalyst who lives and works in New York City. Her research interests include the intersection of race, culture, and identity in psychoanalysis. She is teaching faculty at National Institutes for the Psychotherapies and Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and a guest presenter around the country and abroad. Cynthia’s writing can be found in various psychoanalytic journals including Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues, where she is an Associate Editor. Her most recent published work, “He’s my Brother,” can be found in the book, Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis, published in 2023 by Routledge.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of <i>Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State</i> Review of <i>Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State</i> , by Ellen Toronto.Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2023. 192 pp.","authors":"Helena Vissing","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2249755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2249755","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelena VissingHelena Vissing, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Northern California.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The <i>Dobbs</i> Decision, Forced Birth, and the Fantasy of the Selfless Mother","authors":"Meredith Darcy","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2253518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2253518","url":null,"abstract":"The Dobbs decision and the U.S. abortion ban, or forced birth, is a clear human rights violation. With zero access to safe abortion, a pregnant person must either stay pregnant and give birth to a child they may not want, or put the child up for adoption. This will disproportionately affect already marginalized people and communities managing systemic racism. And it is forcing pregnant people with the life-changing responsibility of caring for all unwanted, unplanned children—whether they want to or not. How will this affect the life and trajectory of the person giving birth? How will the unaborted infant receive the necessary love and attention to grow and thrive? While legislation can impose forced birth, it cannot enforce the conditions of love and care. The Supreme Court majority’s ideal or fantasy of the selfless mother is a disembodied dissociated version of motherhood– an image of a mother–living unwittingly in the shadows of cultural expectation and intergenerational patterns of maternal silence. With the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court has enshrined the idealized fantasy of the selfless mother into law.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Birthright","authors":"Claire Basescu","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2241314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2241314","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article combines literary, scholarly, and clinical genres to explore various aspects of the abortion experience.Keywords: pregnancyabortionsubjectivityself-determinationdissociationmourning Additional informationNotes on contributorsClaire BasescuClaire Basescu, Ph.D., is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, and in private practice in New York City. She is the author of articles that combine scholarly, clinical, and creative writing on such topics as divorce, parenthood, and therapy, particularly the experience of the therapist.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thoughts on the Abortion Taboo: Displacement of a Failing Incest Taboo?","authors":"Jill Gentile","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2023.2247809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2023.2247809","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe author suggests reading the forces culminating in the Dobbs’ decision and the dismantling of Roe v. Wade as the expression of an “abortion taboo,” which represents patriarchy’s refusal to concede to—and its failure to achieve—the incest taboo. The incest taboo, in turn, reflects a weakened paternal law, the failure of which pivots on an archaic and pervasive repudiation of the non-unitary feminine. The abortion taboo performs the labor of annulling (sexed/feminine) difference, on the manifest level advocating reproduction and the life of the unborn, while—latently—insisting on the reproduction of the (White-hetero-masculinist) same, thus reaffirming incestuous relations and their frozen temporality. This essay highlights the signifying and politically liberatory potential of the vaginal, which introduces uncanny contradiction and is disruptive of patriarchal sameness, as well as bearing accountability to a law beyond the paternal: feminine law.Keywords: abortionincest taboopaternal lawfeminine lawvaginalfetus AcknowledgmentsThe author expresses her gratitude to Meredith Darcy for shepherding this essay, and to Helena Vissing and Ali Shames Dawson, for their generous and substantive editorial contributions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In the case of a recently advanced “Prenatal Equal Protection Act” in South Carolina, all accomplices who “conspire” for an abortion would be equally liable of homicide (Zivot, Citation2023).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJill GentileJill Gentile, Ph.D., is clinical adjunct associate professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and the author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, with Michael Macrone (Karnac, 2016). She received the 2017 Gradiva Award for her essay “What is special about speech?” and the 2020 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) prize for “Time may change us: The strange temporalities, novel paradoxes, and democratic imaginaries of a pandemic.” She practices in New York City and hosts online clinical study groups.","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135717399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ode To A Diamond","authors":"Robert Bosnak","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2150045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2150045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>In this article, the author recounts his first meeting with Philip Bromberg and then focuses on a session of dream work done in a group demonstrating the method of embodied imagination. The dream describes a place of filth where a diamond is found. By holding both states—filth and diamond—simultaneously, an alchemical sublimation process is triggered that combines the healing effect of the diamond and the filth that is paradigmatic for the patient’s cancer. It is discussed how through mimesis, the dreamer can shift into the various states in the dream, and that holding them simultaneously in the body engenders a circulation process called sublimation. This refines the dream states until they become so subtle that they can interpenetrate and cause a salutary shift in problematic embodied conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hot Seat: Supervision With Philip Bromberg","authors":"Shelly Itzkowitz","doi":"10.1080/00107530.2022.2153236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2022.2153236","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>The author along with Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., Jill Howard, Ph.D., and Peter Lessem, Ph.D. was in Group Supervision with Philip Bromberg, Ph.D. for more than a decade. This article addresses the author’s experience of sitting across from Philip Bromberg in “The Hot Seat” during group supervisory sessions. The impact of Dr. Bromberg’s ideas on interpersonal and relational psychoanalytic theory is addressed. Concepts such as self-states, and Sullivan’s ideas on the uniqueness of me-patterns of relating are addressed. The author reflects on the last time he and his fellow group member Jill Howard visited with Dr. Bromberg.</p>","PeriodicalId":46058,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Psychoanalysis","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}