Fort Da

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-5

• President's Report

  Melissa Holub

  pp. 6-9

• Aggression Turned against the Self: Also Attacks Others

  Danielle Quinodoz

  pp. 10-23

• The Touch beyond Hate: Response to Danielle Quinodoz's “Aggression Turned against the Self Also Attacks Others”

  Jed Sekoff

  pp. 24-34

• The Complex Nature of Psychoanalytic Empathy: A Theoretical and Clinical Exploration1

  Stefano Bolognini

  pp. 35-56

• Hot Topics: Analytic Engagements with Adolescents

  Mary Brady

  pp. 57-71

• Conversations with Clinicians

  Robert Oelsner & Robert Bartner

  pp. 72-104

• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 1980, 224 pp.: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 2004, 247 pp.

  Jane Kenner

  pp. 112-118

• No Country for Old Meni directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen Miramax Films, 2007, 122 min.

  Jeanne C. Harasemovitch

  pp. 134-142

Book Reviews

• Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D. New York: Bantam Dell, 2007, 302 pp.

  Anca Ivan

  pp. 105-111

Film Reviews

• Batman: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan Warner Brothers, 2008, 152 min.

  Sharon R. Bass

  pp. 119-133

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-3

• President's Report

  Melissa Holub

  pp. 4-6

• The Problem of Empathy: Bridging the Gap between Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis toward Understanding Autism

  Judith L. Mitrani

  pp. 7-32

• The Macbeths in the Consulting Room

  James V. Fisher

  pp. 33-55

• Discussion of: “The Macbeths in the Consulting Room,” by James V. Fisher

  Shelley Nathans

  pp. 56-65

• Pearls of Dew: Transitional Phenomena and Haiku

  Beth Vieira

  pp. 66-77

• The Peculiar Case History: Finding Purloined Meaning in Subjective Texts

  Elizabeth Bradshaw

  pp. 78-92

• Lilacs

  Joyce Schmid

  pp. 94-94

• Rediscovering Psychoanalysis: Thinking and Dreaming, Learning and Forgetting By Thomas H.Ogden, The New Library of Psychoanalysis London & New York: Routledge, 2009. 184 pp.

  David Rosenfeld & Susan Rogers

  pp. 105-107

• False Self: The Life of Masud Khan By Linda Hopkins, New York: Other Press, 2006. 525 pp.

  Laurie Case

  pp. 108-118

• Program Committee

  Lisa Bialy Winston

  pp. 130-131

• San Francisco/East Bay Education Committee

  Mahima Muralidharan

  pp. 132-132

• Peninsula/South Bay Education Committee

  MJ Myatt

  pp. 133-134

• San Francisco/East Bay Intensive Study Group Committee

  Diane Swirsky

  pp. 135-135

• Pre-Licensed Clinicians Committee

  Catherine Sancimino

  pp. 136-137

• Impulse Newsletter Committee

  Cleopatra Victoria

  pp. 138-138

• Treasurer's Report 2009

  Gregory Clinton

  pp. 139-140

Poetry

• Poem

  Annie Sweetnam

  pp. 93-93

Book Reviews

• The Broken Connection — On Death and the Continuity of Life By Robert Jay Lifton, New York: Basic Books, 1983. 495 pp.

  Rachael Peltz

  pp. 95-104

Film Review

• Lars and the Real Girl directed by Craig Gillespie written by Nancy Oliver Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2007, 106 min.

  Laurel Samuels

  pp. 119-128

Committee Reports

• Membership Committee

  Cate Corcoran

  pp. 129-129