Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Editor's Introduction

• Where are we going, where have we been?

  Rachel Sopher

  pp. 1-12

Papers

• The Sexual Illusionist

  Danielle Knafo

  pp. 13-30

• “Selling Fire to the Devil”: Commentary on Danielle Knafo’s “The Sexual Illusionist”

  Dianne Elise

  pp. 31-40

• It’s All Too Much: Excess, Enactment and Ending In Danielle Knafo’s “The Sexual Illusionist”

  Robert Grossmark

  pp. 41-52

• The Imperfect Art of Psychoanalysis: Response to Dianne Elise and Robert Grossmark

  Danielle Knafo

  pp. 53-56

• The Aesthetic Link: The Patient’s Use of the Analyst’s Body and the Body of the Consulting Room

  Alessandra Lemma

  pp. 57-73

• The Bereaved Survivor: Trauma Survivors and Blank Mourning

  Dana Amir

  pp. 74-83

• The Traumatic No Man’s Land of Psychic Devastation: Beyond Mourning and Melancholia

  Julie Gerhardt

  pp. 84-106

• Unpacking Packing while Being Lost in Lace

  Jean Petrucelli

  pp. 107-113

• Doing as We Say and Saying as We Do: A Review of “Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synergy,” Edited by Jill Bresler and Karen Starr: Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration: An Evolving Synergy, edited by Jill Bresler and Karen Starr (2015), Routledge, New York, 310 pages.

  Dana L. Charatan

  pp. 114-119

Global Perspectives

• A Conversation with Grigoris Vaslamatzis

  Jill Choder-Goldman

  pp. 120-128

• The Art and Urgency of Psychoanalytic Writing and Writing Psychoanalytically

  Rachel Altstein

  pp. 129-137

• Introduction to Alexander Stein’s Psychoanalysis in the Public Sphere: A Critical Assessment of the Field and a Call for Taking Analytic Thinking, Writing and Action into the Broader World

  Kerry J. Sulkowicz

  pp. 138-140

• Psychoanalysis in the Public Sphere: A Call for Taking Analytic Thinking, Writing and Action into the Broader World

  Alexander Stein

  pp. 141-160

• On Psychoanalytic Writing (and Writing Psychoanalysis) as Migratory Action and Postcolonial Revolt: A Response to Alexander Stein

  Jill Gentile

  pp. 161-172

• “Training Done? Write!” A Response to Alexander Stein

  Todd Essig

  pp. 173-182

• Experiencing the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson

  Thomas H. Ogden

  pp. 183-188

• Listening: Poetry as Depth Perception

  Alice A. Jones

  pp. 189-204

• Summoning Spirits, Bridging Worlds: Writing, Dreaming, Working Through

  Karen E. Starr

  pp. 205-221

• When the Weird Turn Pro: Some Thoughts on Writing in Psychoanalysis

  Kim Bernstein

  pp. 222-230

• Introduction to Nina Cerfolio’s The Bicycle Shrink

  Clemens Loew

  pp. 231

• The Bicycle Shrink

  Nina Cerfolio

  pp. 232-239

• The Self Struggling To Be Seen: A Review of “Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism,” edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit: A review of Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism, edited by Alan Slomowitz and Alison Feit (2019), Routledge, New York, 332 pages

  Chaim E. Bromberg

  pp. 240-248

• To Grasp the Incomprehensible – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Evil: A Review of “Talking about Evil: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives,” Edited by Rina Lazar: A review of Talking about Evil: Psychoanalytic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Rina Lazar (2017), Routledge, New York, 225 pages.

  Chana Ullman

  pp. 249-254

• Additional reference on sexual experiencing in the treatment relationship

  Jonathan H. Slavin

  pp. 255

• Hunting the Real: Psychosis and Race in the American Hospital

  Hannah Wallerstein

  pp. 257-271

• Discussion of “Hunting the Real”

  C. Jama Adams

  pp. 272-282

• Discussion of “Hunting the Real”

  Lynne Zeavin

  pp. 283-288

• Rethinking Therapeutic Action: Finding Commonalty in Diversity

  Kenneth A. Frank

  pp. 289-317

• Representations, Schemas, and Living-in-the-World

  Paul L. Wachtel

  pp. 318-329

• “Mismatch” in the Search for “Effortless Permanence”: Discussion of “Rethinking Therapeutic Action”

  Katherine H. Leddick

  pp. 330-341

• The Otherness of Fat: An Intersectional Enactment of Epic Proportions

  Hilary Offman

  pp. 342-365

• An Elegy for Motherless Daughters: Dissociation, Multiplicity, and Mourning

  Johanna Dobrich

  pp. 366-384

• Make Someone Happy: Reflections on Giving and Receiving in Love and Psychoanalysis

  Daniel Shaw

  pp. 385-399

• Notes From the Creative Literary Arts Editor

  Allison Katz

  pp. 400-401

• Take

  William Fried

  pp. 402

• Hiroshima Mon Amour

  Kenneth Porter

  pp. 403

• Becoming a Psychoanalyst

  Caryn Sherman-Meyer

  pp. 404

• Alien

  Silas Lum

  pp. 405-406

• My Foolish Heart

  Eric Mendelsohn

  pp. 407-408

• …And Sometimes That Is Life: [The Night of the Iguana parsed]

  Meredith Lisagor

  pp. 409-410