Fort Da

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-4

• President's Report

  Diane Swirsky

  pp. 5-9

• Big Pain: Björk and Lars Von Trier's Dancer in the Dark

  Adam Blum

  pp. 10-24

• Love and its Subversions in Verdi's Otello and Aida

  Lee Rather

  pp. 25-36

• Further Thoughts on Lying and Pretending: A Response to Mary Target's “Some Thoughts on Lying and Pretending”

  Jed Sekoff

  pp. 37-43

• A Discussion of Mary Target's “Is Our Sexuality Our Own?”

  Laurie Goldsmith

  pp. 44-57

• Conversations with Clinicians

  Nathan Adler & Daniel Benveniste

  pp. 58-76

• For Joseph and Sylvie

  Eliot Schain

  pp. 78-78

• Serendipity

  Jane Christmas

  pp. 79-80

• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2007, 203 pp.

  Claire Kahane

  pp. 88-100

• The Fifth Principle by Paul Williams D.P.M. London: Karnac, 2010, 127 pp.

  Catherine McKenzie

  pp. 101-107

• The Twilight Saga — Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer New York: Little, Brown, 2005-2008, 2446 pp.

  Alexandra Guhde

  pp. 108-115

• A Single Man directed by Tom Ford The Weinstein Company, 2009, 99 min. A Serious Man directed by Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen Focus Features, 2009, 106 min.

  Diane Borden

  pp. 127-133

• Contributors

  pp. 134-135

Poetry

• Converse

  Candis Cousins

  pp. 77-77

Reviews: Book Review Essay

• After the Firestorm Susan Kolodny Woodstock, New York: Mayapple Press, 2011; 57 pp.

  Candis Cousins

  pp. 81-87

Reviews: Film Review Essay

• Mildred Pierce directed by Todd Haynes based on the novel by James Cain HBO, Parts I—V, 2011, 300 min.

  Laurel Samuels

  pp. 116-126

• From the Editor

  Alan Kubler

  pp. 1-6

• President's Report

  Diane Swirsky

  pp. 7-8

• How was it for You? Attachment, Mirroring and the Psychotherapeutic Process with Couples Presenting Sexual Problems

  Christopher Clulow

  pp. 9-28

• A Discussion of Christopher Clulow's “How was it for You?”: Is Sex Always Too Much?

  Leora Benioff

  pp. 29-37

• The Inscribed Clinician: Anonymity and Exposure in Postmodern Psychotherapy

  Jenessa Radocchio

  pp. 38-52

• Further Thoughts on Love, Loss, and Transformation in Wagner's The Ring: Götterdämmerung

  Steven H. Goldberg

  pp. 53-69

• Picnic in Stone

  Beverly Burch

  pp. 71

• Once I Watched a Great White Bird

  Beverly Burch

  pp. 72

• Initiating Psychoanalysis: Perspectives Edited by Bernard Reith, Sven Lagerlof, Penelope Crick, Mette Moller, Elisabeth Skale New York: Routledge, 2012, 359 pp.

  Bronwen Lemmon

  pp. 80-84

• Plunge by Alice Jones Berkeley, CA: Apogee Press

  Maureen Kurpinsky

  pp. 85-89

• The Skin I Live In directed by Pedro Almodovar El Deseo, 2011, 120 min.

  Diane M. Borden

  pp. 96-102

• Spring in a Small Town directed by Fei Mu Wenhua Film Company, 1948, 85 min.

  Barbara F. Artson

  pp. 103-108

• Community Mental Health Committee

  Lani Chow

  pp. 110

• Education Committee

  Myra Gueco Bernecker

  pp. 111-112

• Impulse Newsletter Committee

  Matthew Morrissey

  pp. 113-114

• Intensive Study Group Committee

  Anne Dinkelspiel

  pp. 115

• Membership Committee

  Ana Noles

  pp. 116

• Pre-Licensed Committee

  Tiffany McLain

  pp. 117-118

• Program Committee

  Jennifer Fitch

  pp. 119

• Ncspp Treasurer's Report 2012

  Scilla Ballas

  pp. 120-121

• Contributors

  pp. 122-123

Poetry

• You Have Geography

  Beverly Burch

  pp. 70

Book Review Essay

• The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion by Barbara Stevens Sullivan New York: Routledge, 2010; 272 pp.

  Adam Beyda

  pp. 73-79

Film Review Essay

• Shame directed by Steven McQueen Fox Searchlight Pictures: 2011, 101 minutes

  Eric Essman

  pp. 90-95

Committee Reports

• Community Events Committee

  Leslie Carr

  pp. 109