{"title":"The Casale Monferrato Case: A Psychoanalytic Intervention Between Social and Individual Catastrophe.","authors":"Antonella Granieri","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09531-8","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s11231-025-09531-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, I delve into the conscious and unconscious repercussions of the risk associated with residing in a contaminated site due to industrial pollution. Specifically, I focus on the experience of the population of Casale Monferrato, deeply traumatized by both the significant number of deaths resulting from occupational and environmental exposure to asbestos, and by decades of sustenance from the Eternit factory, which ultimately brought pollution and death. My work in Casale Monferrato since 2006 has allowed me to highlight how the psychoanalytic approach enables exploration of the relationship between psychological well-being and the quality of the living environment, while addressing both individual and collective dimensions of the socio-environmental catastrophe. Over the years, I have also designed and implemented psychoanalytic clinical interventions in the field aimed at patients affected by asbestos-related diseases, their families, and the entire Casale Monferrato population exposed to contamination risk.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"588-609"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514809","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":"Second Special Issue: Changing Theoretical and Clinical Issues.","authors":"Lisa A Mounts, Michele A Muñoz","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09532-7","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s11231-025-09532-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"527-530"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145423315","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":"Karen Horney's Self-Analysis: A Personal Journey.","authors":"Noga Guggenheim","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09539-0","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s11231-025-09539-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes my experience reading Horney's (1942) Self-Analysis which when published more than 80 years ago, was innovative in introducing a path of self-help that has largely remained unexplored. Even today, it might still be considered controversial among the various psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic perspectives. After presenting some background on Horney I describe her principal ideas on self-analysis as expressed in her book, how it was reviewed, and its relevance to current psychotherapeutic practice. I will end with a clinical vignette and a personal reflection.</p>","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":"554-571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145598077","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":"Selected Papers by Susan Kavaler-Adler. Volume 1: Developmental Mourning, Erotic Transference, and Object Relations Psychoanalysis, International Psychoanalytic Books, New York, 2022, 546 pp.","authors":"Loray Daws","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09536-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09536-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145551884","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":"Independent Women in British Psychoanalysis: Creativity and Authenticity at Work, edited by Elizabeth Wolf and Barbie Antonis, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2024, 178 pp.","authors":"Jennifer Davids","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09535-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09535-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543855","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":"Hidden Histories of British Psychoanalysis: From Freud's Death Bed to Laing's Missing Tooth, by Brett Kahr, Karnac Books Ltd., Bicester, Oxfordshire, 2024, 330 pp.","authors":"Valerie Sinason","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09538-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09538-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145543844","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":"My Farewell to the Yellow House by István Hollós, translated by Adrian Courage, edited by Antal Bókay, Monika Perenyei, Raluca Soreanu, Mónika Takács, 1968 press, London, UK, 2024, (original work published in 1927), 171 pp.","authors":"Endre Koritar","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09537-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09537-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145514785","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 Émigré Analysts and American Psychoanalysis: History and Contemporary Relevance, edited by Adrienne E. Harris, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2023, 172 pp.","authors":"Francisco Balbuena Rivera","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09534-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09534-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145369313","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":"Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective, by David M. Black, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2024, 150 pp.","authors":"Nilofer Kaul","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09526-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09526-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145369318","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":"Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction by Sandra Buechler, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2025, 150 pp.","authors":"Frank Tisano","doi":"10.1057/s11231-025-09528-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-025-09528-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52458,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Psychoanalysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240423","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}