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With the republication of Adrienne Harris' classic essay, "You must remember this" (Harris, 2009), Psychoanalytic Dialogues continues our new feature, Après Coup. By putting a paper from the early years of the journal in conversation with contemporary readers and writers, we hope to dive into the ways in which psychoanalysts forge relationality in spaces of complexity and contradiction over time, as our experiences- collective, dyadic, or solitary – are always nonlinear and multiply configured. This Apres Coup includes commentaries by Cleonie White, Ph.D. Ken Corbett, Ph.D. Shubha Herlekar, Psy.D. MFT, Victor Donas, M.D. Donnel Stern, Ph.D. and Giuseppe Civitarese, M.D. Ph.D. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every year leading up to Victory Day on 9 May, Russian screens, large and small, show feature films, documentaries, and miniseries about the Second World War. These films have helped unify Russian citizenry and develop patriotism. The year 2015 proved to be notable for war cinematography: three feature films and one twelve-part miniseries premiered in honour of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. While all of these cinematic releases retell or engage with wellknown narratives, these remakes reflect tensions surrounding the conflict that erupted in Ukraine following years of increasing strained relations with Russia. 'Performing Identities and Negotiating Memory in Contested Spaces: Ukrainian Folk Songs in Contemporary Russian War Films' analyses the incorporation a Ukrainian folksongs into Sergei Mokritskii's feature film Battle for Sevastopol and Leonid Pliaskin's twelve-part miniseries, The Young Guard. In every cinematized version of The Young Guard, music has played a significant role. The author asks how directors use these songs to respond to the annexation of Crimea and conflict that erupted in the Donbas in 2014 as the films take place in these two regions. Contextualizing her analysis in scholarship related to collective memory, nationality, nostalgia, and intertextuality, she argues that the directors use the films to take two different approaches: symbolically reuniting the Soviet Union in film one and appropriating a Ukrainian song to underscore suffering caused by Ukrainian and German 'fascists' in the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using theory from philosophy and from race studies, the author explores the countertransference confusions and enactments that can arise in working with trans and gender nonbinary patients. Case material is presented to explore in vivo the potential for enactments and toxic anxiety in the analyst in work with patients exploring or inhabiting new forms of desire and identity. Primitive states of anxiety and dysphoria may inhibit the analyst's capacities to allow freedom and reflection in cases of complex gender construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

This essay draws on a clinical vignette reproduced from a treatment with Philip Bromberg and carried into my clinical work, illuminating his creative use of enactment. The ongoing vitality of his insight carried over three decades and two analytic engagements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this discussion, I concentrate on Levine's engagement with the problem of race and racism as it inhabits and grows and complicates clinical treatments with people different from the analyst in matters of race and class and caste. There are radical and painful differences between analyst and analysand, differences that are emotional, social, financial, and professional. Levine's agenda is to open the painful and often humiliating places of difference and oppression and social possibility when racial differences enter and shape a treatment. In this discussion, using racial theorists like George and Gay, I explore how Levine writes and illuminates the moral and emotional stakes, including shame and guilt, that dominate discourses that cross race and class lines in the consulting room. I consider how Levine's bravery must be our model for movement and change in analytic work and theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of structured nurse-surgeon bedside rounds to improve perceptions of communication, collaboration, and teamwork. Topics covered include the value of interdisciplinary bedside rounds on quality of patient care, and a limited study which showed that a structured joint participation had a favorable impact on communication, collaboration, and teamwork perceptions. Also noted is the need for further research to evaluate measurable patient outcomes.

This paper discusses Janine de Peyer's paper on erotic countertransference, "Unspoken Rhapsody: Female Erotic Countertransference and the Dissociation of Desire," from the perspective of ontological and relational models of treatment. Its argument also draws on the work of Laplanche on sexuality, enigmatic seduction and the radical alterity of human sexuality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction presents the key elements in Laplanche's theorizing about sexuality. The model focuses on what he has termed "radical alterity," noting that sexuality is both transactional, arriving from the other and constituting both the unconscious and the lived experience of sexual desire. In this theory, there is space for trauma and normative experiences of forms of desire and excitement arising and arriving from the Other; links to relational theory are suggested and the novelty and importance of considering the clinical, the theoretical, and the cultural from a Laplanchian perspective are introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Earlier in the chapter, Frosh conjures images from Christina Sharpe's book about slavery, I In the Wake i (2016), and we must try and absorb the experience of capture, enslavement, shame, violence, and pain. On Stephen Frosh, Those Who Came After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness Frosh brings the reader into complex unsettled conceptions of post-trauma work, both individual and collective. In several chapters, Frosh brings us into an intellectual and moral encounter with the psychoanalyst Jessica Benjamin, the philosopher and cultural theorist Judith Butler, and later the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, three figures whose ideas both overlap and are crucially distinct. [Extracted from the article]

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]

A discussion of Marks-Tarlow and Shapiro's model of fractal epistemology as clinically useful in the exploration of uncanny resonances in clinical dialogue. Arguing for the relevance of fractal epistemology for both the presence of resonance and of complex difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on theoretical contributions of Ogden, Goldberg, Bleger, and others, this discussion looks at how the frame is used and misused in clinical work. Imagining the psychic, conscious and unconscious meaning of the contents of the room, the waiting room and the office space, one sees how psychic material is both hidden and revealed. Using a clinical example, this discussion explores the ways analysands project disavowed and dangerous feelings into the frame, which is a complex intermediary space, neither outside nor inside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This discussion focuses on review of writing about phantom penis and phantom limb, considering how these data and research address the question of pleasure and sexuality in trans and gender-nonbinary persons. Implications of this work on phantom penis and prosthetic penis forms for thinking of brain structure, embodiment, and fantasy as sexuality are shaped and expressed in many different kinds of persons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pressure ulcer management remains a key area of tissue viability nursing that applies to all disciplines and healthcare professionals alike. Adrienne Harris examines the research and informs us of the best evidence-based tools to achieve effective management [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]