DIVISION/Review
A publication of Division 39
December 2012
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Book Reviews
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer (Book Review)
Martin Winn reviews: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer - Lacanian Psychotherapy: Theory and Practical Applications by Michael J. Miller (Book Review)
Ona Nierenberg reviews: Lacanian Psychotherapy: Theory and Practical Applications Michael J. Miller - Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas by Nancy Caro Hollander (Book Review)
Sue Grand reviews: Uprooted Minds: Surviving the Politics of Terror in the Americas by Nancy Caro Hollander - Stories from the Bog: On Madness, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies) by Patrick B. Kavanaugh (Book Review)
Marilyn Charles reviews: Stories from the Bog: On Madness, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies) by Patrick B. Kavanaugh
ROUNDTABLE ON SILENCE
- Silence: Contemporary relational and Freudian perspectives
Each contributor will offer his or her reflective meditations on silence in the analytic encounter
By Jill Salberg - Different kinds of silence
Silences may confound us, numb us, distract us, frustrate us or overwhelm us with hosts of feelings that inform our interventions
By Melinda Gellman - Silence: Now more than ever
From the very beginning of many treatments, the question of the analyst’s silence is at center stage
By Andrew B. Druck - Silence and quiet: A phenomenology of wordlessness
Silence is the absence of speaking that psychoanalysis only understands by reference to issues of technique
By Bruce Reis - Radio silence
In my experience there are two groups of affects patients experience in silence — overwhelming discomfort and comfortable, calm, inner-directed interest
By Mary Libbey
COMMENTARY
- Reflections on the roundtable discussion of the division practice survey
The author reflects on the discussion that was published in Issue 5 of DIVISION/Review and offers a new interpretation of the results of the Division 39 Practice Survey as they reflect the current state of the psychoanalytic field
By Frank Summers - On keeping thought erotic: Some problems in contemporary theory and practice
Contemporary questions of psychoanalytic theory and practice are addressed from the premise that there is a certain distinct way of thinking that is central to clinical psychoanalysis, a way of thinking referred to by the authors as erotic
By Donald Moss and Alan Bass - True self, false self: The role of popular media in subjugating women of color
Referring to the novel The Help, and to the film based upon it, Durham explores how popular media contributes to the continued subjugation of women of color even through efforts intended at conveying their subjectivity
By Jennifer Durham-Fowler - What do practitioners want in a Diagnostic Taxonomies? Comparing the PDM with DSM and ICD
The authors discuss the strengths and weakness of various Diagnostic Taxonomies and address questions as to which would prove most useful for psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians
By Robert F. Bornstein and Robert M. Gordon
RESEARCH
- Bridging the gulf between research and clinical practice: A special series for DIVISION/Review
A new column is being introduced in this issue of Division/Review. It will be a regular feature of the journal and present interviews and discussion regarding the relationship between research and clinical practice
By Steven D. Axelrod and Sherwood Waldron - A summarized interview with Nancy McWilliams
The first installment in the new column on research is the summary of an interview with Nancy McWilliams in which she discusses the various research projects that she has found most useful to her clinical practice
By Steven D. Axelrod
FILM
- Closer to you
As related to Freud’s essay The Moses of Michelangelo, Mathes explores what it means and what are the risks in taking a work of art personally
By Bettina Mathes
ON POETRY
- Finding in the sound a thought: Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach”
Considering the poem "Dover Beach", by Matthew Arnold, Seiden discusses how a reader finds thought in an encounter with the poetic treatment of experience, and particularly non-cognitive experience
By Henry M. Seiden
WIT[Z]
- When dumbness, or unbehagen before the master, becomes “Shakespeak,” comradery and joy in shared lack
In the first installment of a new column on humor and psychoanalysis, Steinkoler finds the former in a class on Shakespeare and reflects on its meaning for the latter
By Manya Steinkoler
LETTERS
- A letter from the Santa Fe retreat
It is crucial at the inception of an action that may strain the ties that bind people that they be assured of the eventual restoration of calm and order
By William Fried - Letter to the editor
Ahmed Fayek reflects on the crisis faced by a discipline undergoing constant evolution
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Johanna K. Tabin Press Book Proposal Prize
Participate in this annual contest that recognizes a psychoanalytic author's first book
CREDITS
- The photography of Mac Adams
A unique feature of Adam’s practice is the inclusion of physical objects and meticulously contrived décor along with his narrative images
By Tim Maul
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