Fort Da

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-4

• President's Report

  Drew Tillotson

  pp. 5-9

• Murray Bilmes in Memoriam (1927-2007)

  Michael Guy Thompson

  pp. 10-16

• The Role of Imagination in the Apprehension of Difference

  James V. Fisher

  pp. 17-35

• Thinking of André Green: Early Ideas

  Luca Donna & E. Peabody Bradford

  pp. 36-67

• The Visit

  Tom Richardson

  pp. 68-68

• Learning from Life: Becoming a Psychoanalyst by Patrick Casement London: Routledge, 2006, 212 pp.

  Mariana Doig

  pp. 75-81

• The Psychological Impact of Acute and Chronic Medical Illness: A Practical Guide for Primary Care Physicians by Tamara McClintock Greenberg, Psy.D., MS New York: Springer, 2007; 176 pp.

  Miriam Goldfien

  pp. 82-89

• How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007, 307 pp.

  Bronwen Lemmon

  pp. 90-95

• Rift by Forrest Hamer New York City: Four Way Books, 2007; 58 pp.

  Candis Cousins & Teresa Doyle

  pp. 96-104

• Inland Empire directed by David Lynch Studio Canal, 2006, 180 min.

  Mark Scott

  pp. 110-119

Book Reviews

• A Healing Conversation — How Healing Happens by Neville Symington London: Karnac, 2006; 147 pp.

  Maureen Kurpinsky

  pp. 69-74

Film Reviews

• The Brave One directed by Neil Jordan Warner Brothers, 2007, 119 minutes

  Eric Essman

  pp. 105-109

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-3

• President's Report

  Drew Tillotson

  pp. 4-10

• Bion's Four Principles of Mental Functioning

  Thomas H. Ogden

  pp. 11-35

• The Wisdom of a Bad Choice: The Vicissitudes of Sexual Desire

  Susan Flynn

  pp. 36-54

• Joseph L. Henderson in Memoriam (1903-2007) Initiation, Culture, and Consciousness

  Daniel Benveniste

  pp. 55-69

• Psychosis and Identity: Trilingual Psychotherapy of a Psychotic Immigrant Woman

  Esther Rapoport

  pp. 70-84

• Blue Man

  Elaine Wells

  pp. 85-85

• The other Dream

  Elaine Wells

  pp. 86-86

• Conversations with Clinicians: Who is the Writer Who Writes the Books?

  James Grotstein & Maureen Franey

  pp. 87-116

• The Vale of Soulmaking: The Post-Kleinian Model of the Mind and Its Poetic Origins by Meg Harris Williams London & New York: Karnac, 2005, 251 pp.

  Peter Silen

  pp. 124-130

• The Dove and the Consulting Room: Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung by Greg Mogenson New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2003; 229 pp.

  Adam Beyda

  pp. 131-135

• Variations on a Theme: a Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar's Volver

  Barbara F. Artson

  pp. 137-141

• The Eternal Return of the Archaic Mother in Volver: Somber Farce and Hollywood Weepie

  Diane M. Borden

  pp. 142-146

• Madre, Solamente Hay Una: VOLVER

  Francisco J. González

  pp. 146-151

• Do the Right Thing Written and directed by Spike Lee Universal Pictures, 1989, 120 min.

  Leticia Arellano

  pp. 152-157

• Breaking and Entering directed by Anthony Minghella Miramax: 2006, 120 minutes

  Eric Essman

  pp. 158-163

• Program Committee

  Bear Korngold

  pp. 166-167

• San Francisco/East Bay Education Committee

  Amy Bandera

  pp. 168-168

• Peninsula/South Bay Education Committee

  MJ Myatt

  pp. 169-170

• Sacramento Valley Education Committee

  Susan Boulware

  pp. 171-172

• San Francisco/East Bay Intensive Study Group Committee

  Diane Swirsky

  pp. 173-174

• IMPULSE Committee

  Cleopatra Victoria

  pp. 175-175

• Membership Committee

  Andrew Harlem

  pp. 176-176

• Erratum

  pp. ii-ii

Book Reviews

• A Beam of Intense Darkness: Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis by James S. Grotstein London: Karnac; 2007, 382 pp.

  Ronald Britton

  pp. 117-123

Film Reviews

• Volver written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar Sony Pictures Classics, 2006; 121 min.

  Diane M. Borden

  pp. 136-136

Committee Reports

• NCSPP Treasurer's Report 2007

  Gregory Clinton

  pp. 164-165