DIVISION/Review
A publication of Division 39
October 2011 | Vol. 1, No. 3

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IN THIS ISSUE
- The subject of psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is not only a distinct form of psychotherapeutic treatment but also a unique view of the human subject, subjectivity, and the intersubjective experience
By David Lichtenstein
REMINISCENCE
- Chain of referral
A personal account of the experience of a psychoanalytic treatment based upon the theories of Wilhelm Reich
By William Fried
POETRY
- How otherness dissolves
A poem by Thomas Lux provides an opportunity to reflect on similarity and difference in human experience
By Henry M. Seiden
COMMENTARY
- East of Freud: Sexual narratives in the Persian and Arab worlds
The history of sexuality in the Persian and Arab worlds challenges our Western ideas about the categories of erotic desire
By Galit Atlas-Koch - Establishing a transference
Conducting psychoanalytic psychotherapy through a team-based milieu format introduces new ideas about the therapeutic alliance and the structures of transference
By Christina Biedermann - Sensuous personal identity vs. conceptual universal reason: Competing claims on the analyst while listening to sexually charged material
The analyst striving to maintain relative neutrality while listening to sexually charged material experiences a struggle between the claims of personal identity and those of universal reason
By Donald Moss - Taking place: Granada's solitude
A meditation on solitude in a foreign city and an encounter with the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
By Bettina Mathes
FILM / VIDEO
- Gloria—Fifty years on
Two new APA videos on contemporary psychotherapy, "Three Approaches to Psychotherapy with a Male/Female Client—The Next Generation," are reviewed and discussed
By Bill MacGillivray - Inside all of us: Where the wild things are in literature, film, and psychoanalysis
The film version of the beloved children's book, Where the Wild Things Are, provides an apt vehicle for reflecting on the process of psychotherapy
By Gregory J. Stevens - My gender is tender
The complexities of gender identity are considered in relation to the film performances of Jackie Curtis and Jonathan Caouette
By Adrienne Harris
BOOK REVIEWS
- Bion Today (Book Review)
Lynn Zeavin reviews the book "Bion Today", edited by Dana Birkstead-Breen and Chris Mawson - Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship (Book Review)
Shelley Galasso Bonanno reviews the book "Change in Psychoanalysis: An Analyst's Reflections on the Therapeutic Relationship" by Chris Jaenicke - From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration (Book Review)
William A. MacGillivray reviews the book "From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration" by Morris N. Eagle - Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives From Psychoanalytic Gender Theory (Book Review)
Anthony F. Tasso reviews the book "Heterosexual Masculinities: Contemporary Perspectives From Psychoanalytic Gender Theory" by Bruce Reis and Robert Grossmark - Lying, Cheating, and Carrying On Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit (Book Review)
Ronald C. Naso reviews the book "Lying, Cheating, and Carrying On Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit" by Salman Akhtar and Henri Parens - Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Book Review)
Jeanne Wolff Bernstein reviews the book "Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism" by Patricia Gherovici - World, Affectivity, Trauma (Book Review)
Carlo Strenger reviews the book "World, Affectivity, Trauma" by Robert D Stolorow
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