Psychoanalytic Perspectives

A Note From the Guest Editors

• “Complexity, Complexity, Complexity”: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Adoption

  Kenneth A. Frank & Kim Bernstein

  pp. 1-9

Papers

• Loss, Insecurity, and Uncertainty: The Impact of Adoption on the Developing Selves of a Birthmother

  Sharon Horowitz

  pp. 10-19

• Loss and Resilience Form a Family: An Adoption Story From a Relational Point of View

  Barbara Freedgood

  pp. 20-41

• Being Borne: Contextualizing Loss in Adoption

  Billie A. Pivnick

  pp. 42-64

Roundtable

• Inside Adoption

  Alan Dolber, Noah S. Glassman, Kelly Merklin, Roger Rosenthal, Eleanor Schuker, Melissa Feldmann Secrest, Kenneth A. Frank & Kim Bernstein

  pp. 65-113

Commentaries

• The Missing Content: Reflections on the Adoption Roundtable

  Alan Dolber

  pp. 114-115

• Narrative, Family Romance Fantasy, and the Adoption Triad

  Noah S. Glassman

  pp. 116-119

• Retrospective Reflections on the Adoption Roundtable Discussion

  Kelly Merklin

  pp. 120-124

• The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change: Adoption Roundtable Reflections

  Roger Rosenthal

  pp. 125-130

• Grapple, Grapple, Fret: The Aftermath of the Adoption Roundtable for This Utterly Non-Angry Adoptee

  Melissa Feldmann Secrest

  pp. 131-135

• Comments on Reading the Adoption Roundtable

  Eleanor Schuker

  pp. 136-138

• Adoption News: Heterosexual Parents Helped by Gay Man

  David Schwartz

  pp. 139-148

• Sequestered Selves: Discussion of Adoption Roundtable

  Janine de Peyer

  pp. 149-168

Book Review

• More Private than Otherwise: A Review of Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism, by Naoko Wake (2011), Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, 363 pages.

  Pascal Sauvayre

  pp. 169-174

• Sullivan in American History: An Interview with Naoko Wake

  Pascal Sauvayre

  pp. 175-182

Creative LiteraryWriting While the Analyst Is Away

• Notes from the Creative Literary Editor

  Bonnie Zindel

  pp. 183-184

• Gabbeh

  Anonymous

  pp. 185-186

• Dénouement

  David Austern

  pp. 187-188

• Waiting Room

  Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond

  pp. 189-190

• De Profundis*

  Lee Miriam Whitman-Raymond

  pp. 191-192

• The Futility of Self-Improvement

  Kim Bernstein

  pp. 193-194

• Encantadas—The Enchanted Ones

  Gottfried Maria Heuer

  pp. 195-196

Private Lives

• Introduction to “Taxi Down the Runway, Lift Off”

  Clemens Loew

  pp. 197

• Taxi Down the Runway, Lift Off

  Davida Adedjouma

  pp. 198-209

• A Note from the Editors-in-Chief

  Steven Kuchuck & Deborah Pines

  pp. 211-212

• Letter to the Editors

  Esther Hanoch

  pp. 213-215

• Trying to “Think Straight” About Openness in Adoption: One Gay Man's Response to the Discussants of the Adoption Roundtable

  Noah S. Glassman

  pp. 216-219

Papers

• When Two Become Four: Patient, Analyst, Lover, Friend

  Steven Kuchuck

  pp. 220-234

• Can There Be a Spiritual Psychoanalysis?

  Kenneth Porter

  pp. 235-269

• Can There Be a Psychoanalytic Spirituality? A Response to Kenneth Porter

  Lisa M. Cataldo

  pp. 270-284

• The Devil We Know

  Mark Epstein

  pp. 285-290

• Sympathy for the Devil: Response to Lisa M. Cataldo and Mark Epstein

  Kenneth Porter

  pp. 291-299

• Psychoanalysis and the 21st Century: A Critique and a Vision

  Kenneth A. Frank

  pp. 300-334

• Deconstructing the Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis Binary—The Case for Optimal Marginality: Commentary on Paper by Kenneth Frank

  Karen E. Starr & Lewis Aron

  pp. 335-349

• Psychoanalysis as the “Loyal Opposition”—Commentary on a Paper by Kenneth Frank

  Jeremy D. Safran

  pp. 350-362

• Reply to the Discussants “From the Margins”

  Kenneth A. Frank

  pp. 363-377

Book Review

• Winnicott, The Revolutionary: A Review of Donald Winnicott Today, by Jan Abram (2013), Routledge, New York, 478 pages.

  Sarah Hill

  pp. 378-387

Creative LiteraryFrom Image to Words: One Unconscious Speaks to Another

• Notes from the Creative Literary Editor

  Bonnie Zindel

  pp. 388-389

• Fireworks

  Galit Atlas

  pp. 390-391

• Terrible Generous Beauty

  Gilbert W. Cole

  pp. 392-393

• Maid-mer by the Sea

  Colette Rayment

  pp. 394-395

• Love at First Sight

  Philip Ringstrom

  pp. 396-397

• The Return of Guernica

  Spyros D. Orfanos

  pp. 398-399

• Interpreting Giacometti

  Julia M. Schwartz & Robert D. Stolorow

  pp. 400-401

• Sir Real

  Warren Wilner

  pp. 402-404

Private Lives

• Introduction to “The Minus Side”

  Clemens Loew

  pp. 405

• The Minus Side

  Xavier Trevino

  pp. 406-413

Miscellaneous

• Editorial Board EOV

  pp. 0