{"title":"Response to Igor Romanov's letter to the Editor, <i>IJP</i>.","authors":"Fakhry Davids","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2598145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2598145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"112-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hours: Melanie Klein at Work - The Case of Mr. B.","authors":"Abbot Bronstein, Christine English","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2588027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2588027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"62-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147639819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oedipus and Odysseus: A clinical exploration of mythical Penelope's weaving as illustrative of André Green's Dead Mother complex.","authors":"Rosemary Davies","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2481198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2481198","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At a difficult point in her analysis, my patient Julia invoked Penelope's weaving and unweaving as she awaited her husband Odysseus' return. In this paper I discuss how the repetition compulsion, encapsulated in the weaving and unweaving, illustrated Julia's identification with a deadened, depressed mother, very like the Dead Mother that Green (Green, A. 1986. \"The Dead Mother.\" In <i>On Private Madness</i>. London: Karnac Books) describes. The evocation of Penelope highlights the painful dilemma of the child, whose love feels, according to Green, to be mortgaged to the mother's depression. In the detail of the clinical situation, I consider the movement Julia could essay from the identification with the depressed, grief-stricken mother/Penelope in one session, to the recovery of a more benign parental couple, something more alive and libidinally connected, in a later session. I draw on Kohut's idea of the \"semi-circle of mental health\" (Kohut, H. 1982. \"Introspection, Empathy and the Semi Circle of Mental Health.\" <i>The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis</i> 63:395-407) described in the myth as Odysseus' protective paternal presence in his son Telemachus' early life. Following Freud's lead of using Greek myths to articulate internal psychic dynamics, specifically his use of the myths of Narcissus and Oedipus, I draw on the story of Odysseus to elaborate the clinical manifestations of Julia's psychic predicament.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"107 1","pages":"38-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trans is not the new gay: How psychoanalytic elitism and the rejection of science are creating a repetition of the past.","authors":"Roberto D'Angelo","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2591921","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2591921","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychoanalysis has a troubled history with regard to sexual minorities. Throughout much of the twentieth century, prominent analysts endorsed a highly pathologising and coercive approach to homosexuality, which was essentially a form of conversion therapy. This departure from accepted analytic technique persisted for decades due to psychoanalytic elitism and the rejection of mounting empirical science contradicting the psychoanalytic position. Today, a pressing concern for psychoanalysis is to avoid repeating this history when theorising about and working with transgender people. Psychodynamic explorations of trans identity formation are being framed as new iterations of conversion therapy, wrongly implying coercion and falsely conflating psychodynamics with pathology. Furthermore, the author cautions that unquestioning gender affirmation shares an important conceptual similarity with gay conversion therapy, in that it can collude with a wish to eliminate a shame-filled or hated part of the self. In our haste to avoid repeating the past, psychoanalysis is deploying the very same tactics that insulated its stance on homosexuality from revision and course correction, but now with regard to trans. The author argues that if we are to avoid causing further harm to our patients and our profession, we ignore the science at our own peril.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145953198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report on panel \"Serious trauma and life-threatening Illness in the analyst: reclaiming anchorage in life and work\", Lisbon, 2025.","authors":"Carolina Bacchi, Amrita Narayanan","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585383","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 6","pages":"1253-1255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146107951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is anonymisation possible?","authors":"John Churcher","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In today's world of rapidly evolving digital technology, guaranteeing the anonymity of a psychoanalytic patient in a published paper is very much harder than it may seem. Anonymisation in publishing is part of a wider problem of psychoanalytic confidentiality. Identifying details can be changed but information relating to external reality may still be present in the text. The risk of deanonymisation often cannot be estimated and is instead subject to radical uncertainty. The paper considers various sources of this radical uncertainty. Anonymisation of a patient may need to remain effective for decades. The conditions for ensuring this are exacting and rarely likely to be met in practice. Possible consequences of abandoning belief in the safety of anonymisation are briefly considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 6","pages":"1151-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146107989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What a tangled WEB we weave: Straight talk about anonymising clinical writing about child and adolescent psychoanalysis.","authors":"Denia G Barrett","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585385","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the ethical challenges child and adolescent psychoanalysts encounter in trying to preserve the confidentiality of their patients and their families while still sharing what they have learned from this work by writing about it for professional colleagues. These challenges are made even more difficult in our digital age, when almost anything one has written can be discovered. An example of an adult who found papers written by an analyst seen in childhood serves as a cautionary tale.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 6","pages":"1160-1166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146107973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We must publish material from our sessions, so how do we do it safely?","authors":"David Tuckett","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2585390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2585390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper discusses whether the Internet and related technologies that we can imagine in future may have made it unsafe for psychoanalysts to publish clinical material in an anonymised form. The author notes, first, that algorithms work with identifiers of various sorts to tie information subjects together across space and time. It means that what is an anonymised clinical report today might, in future, potentially be joined with other documents to allow a patient to be re-identified. Discussing the current literature from computer science, the case is made that while there will be risks, if anonymisation is done less than rigorously, they can be removed by a variety of measures, most important of which are both the generalisation and falsification of potential identifiers. Exploring the merits and ethics of this approach, the author argues that psychoanalytic data are not externally valid data but internally consistent subjective data. It means that ensuring external identifiers are absent or distorted in clinical reports to convey the analyst's understanding but to safeguard against jigsaw puzzle re-identification does not de-authenticate them. Indeed, the process of anonymisation, focusing on the status of psychoanalytic data as inherently subjective, should deepen and strengthen rather than reduce their evidential values.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 6","pages":"1188-1195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146108019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voice, body-self and trauma in the analytic space.","authors":"Sebastian Leikert","doi":"10.1080/00207578.2025.2503358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207578.2025.2503358","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The author investigates voice and body-self in the analytic space. A look at the role of music and voice in Stone Age ritual, being the core of human culture, and at the role of the mother's voice, being the unborn child's first encounter with the Other, shows the influence of the voice on psychic life. Beyond the symbolic discourse, voice and body-self organize the exchange of emotions. This level becomes crucial when a symbolization disorder dominates the encounter as a result of traumatization. The analytic couple is not limited to a focus on words and images. Both analyst and patient have access to the perception of their body-self; moreover, the sound of the voice proves to be isomorphic to the states of the body-self and provides vocal information. In the analytic space a traumatic inscription in the body-self (encapsulated body engram) can be focused on. Somatic narration describes a way to work through such an engram. Here, the patient is invited to describe his or her body perceptions and thus the disorganized tensions of traumatization can unfold in the analytic space. This enables a cathartic process of overcoming the destructive qualities of traumatic memory. A case report illustrates the method.</p>","PeriodicalId":48022,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":"106 6","pages":"1108-1126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146107948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}