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A review of a clinical report by Harold Searles, attending to Searles' ways of working with psychotic patients, his influences and those he influenced, as well as contemporary thinkers (Laplanche), who speak as Searles did, of the power of the other in the construction of psychic life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the pandemic and the social protest that followed in the United States, this article looks at the history of writing on climate change in psychoanalysis, the different effects of social, mental, and ecological factors, the changing space of clinical work and its meanings and the interweave of the pandemic and social protest movements and analysis of structural racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discussion of the work of Alison Howard whose diagnosis of coronavirus, made public, became a complex part of the transference and countertransference. Clinical work under these difficult conditions was discussed in terms of contemporary clinical theory stressing the potency and necessity of change in the analyst, the work of Ogden and Levenson, in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, through four sections, looks at the philosophical and social backdrop to the relational turn, the particular pressures on psychoanalysis in the Second World War and post-War years. Drawing on Gampel's ideas of radioactive identifications, the force of political and social experience on theory and practice in psychoanalysis is considered in the current political climate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An examination of a clinical case in which severe demands on the analyst were made to bear silence and trauma unprocessable by the analysand. This discussion draws on the work of Coltart and Ferenczi to consider the demands of such work on the analyst. Intergenerational transmissions of trauma are also considered in the understanding of this case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this discussion, the biology of loss and separation, the enmeshment and intersubjective interdependence of dyads are explored as aspects of the particular dimensions of mourning in the analysand upon the death of her analyst. Considerations from linguistics, from attachment research, and from the relational theory of intersubjectivity are used to explore the particular demands of mourning and reparation in analytic dyads. The work of dreams in recovery is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a reaction to the clinical report of Alvarez of a treatment of an anxious, somatizing late adolescent. Approaching this clinical dyad from a relational perspective, transference elements, projected identifications to analyst and to reader are considered. The issues of intergenerational transmission of trauma in work with children from histories of migration and separation are considered, the roles of class and money as barriers to treatment engagement are considered. The disguised hostilities and envies in the treatment are also explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article begins questioning, and yet also making use of, the concept of the father, examining the theoretical space of fathers and fathering in psychoanalytic theory in the light of contemporary gender theory. Using memoir and clinical vignettes, the essay examines the experience of the father in early childhood, the paternal body, the experience of the father through the imagination of others, the father in oedipal and post-Oedipal life for a daughter, fathers and daughters in psychoanalytic history, and the particular traumatic effects of dangerous and absent fathers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We introduce our duet of articles placing relational psychoanalysis in the political-historical contexts that preceded and accompanied its inception. These include the shift toward the ego psychological adaptationist orientation in the wake of the emigration of leading psychoanalysts from Central Europe and Cold War domestic anticommunism, and the subsequent emergence of an insurgent generation in social movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam war, women's and gay rights, and other causes. The transactions between personal, professional, and socio-historical identities and identifications are considered throughout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]