Click Here to Read: Warmed by the Fires: Selected Papers of Allan Frosch. Edited by Joseph A. Cancelmo, Batya R. Monder, and Hattie B. Myers. New York: International Psychoanalytic Books (IPBooks), 2019, 360 pp., $35.00 paperback, reviewed by Jeri Isaacson in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 70, Issue 4.
Click Here to Purchase: Warmed by the Fires: Selected Papers of Allan Frosch. Edited by Joseph A. Cancelmo, Batya R. Monder, and Hattie B. Myers from IPBooks.net
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Click Here for Episode 6 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Ruptures in Identity and Ideology with Coline Covington” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Coline Covington about how shifts in ideology affect us, how we struggle to maintain personal and group identities, how political events relate to our basic attachments, and more.
“Although I was rationally clear about why I had made this decision, emotionally, it made no sense to me. I was grief stricken and angry. I also felt I was betraying an intrinsic part of my identity, along with the values that I had held so dearly throughout my life. While many of us take our country of origin and what it means to us for granted, my act of effectively disowning my country made me powerfully aware that we all have some kind of national identity, whether we acknowledge it or not, and that this deeply affects not only our personal identity, but also how we see the rest of the world.” – Covington, “My Country, My Self: Separation, Identity, and Dissonance,” ROOM 2.19
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Click Here to Listen To: Episode 5 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Stepping into the Line of Fire with Adrienne Harris” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Isaac and Aneta talk with Dr. Adrienne Harris about her timely piece, “My Back-Alley Abortion.” They discuss Harris’s personal experience, the implications of overturning Roe v. Wade, and what it means to step into the line of fire as a politically engaged clinician.
“How do we go forward maintaining the deep capacity for supporting other women that feminism and the women’s movement gave us? How not to live always alone in a frightening and dangerous room? That is one of my worries for the women, now three generations younger than me, who have an increasingly shaky access to means of being in control of their bodily, sexual, and reproductive lives. And as we learn, over and over, that danger falls unequally on women of different classes, races, social groups, and castes. We-all women-are again at the mercy of the “back alley,” but we are not equally vulnerable.” – Harris, ROOM 10.22, “My Back-Alley Abortion”
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Click Here to Purchase: People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan from IPBooks.net
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Above are two clusters of chapters from a unique psychological novel, “people don’t drown in living rooms”. Written in two voices, in the form of epistolary exchanges between analyst and patient, this book is unique in its form as well as in its contextual content. Touching on the complexity of emotional and physical boundaries between therapist and client, through the tumultuous arena of erotic transference – as Danielle Knafo, professor, psychoanalyst and author, commented “This book teaches us more about the intensity of the love-hate dynamics that exist between patient and analyst than any journal article on the subject”.
This book was written by two authors; Dr. Orna Reuven, a psychoanalyst and lecturer from the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and Dr. Yair Eldan, a lecturer of law from The Hebrew University, who together embarked on an adventure knowing how it would begin but with no view of where it would end. During the writing of this book, they took it upon themselves to restrict their Continue reading People Don’t Drown in Living Rooms by Orna Reuven and Yair Eldan
