Recently added articles from Psychoanalytic Dialogues:
Historicizing the Role of Psychologists in the U.S. Military: Introduction to Issue on Coercive Interrogations and the Mental Health Profession
Sep 01, 2008; ... This special issue addresses the disturbing events that emerged in the aftermath of 9/11 in the United States with regard to the role of mental health professionals in coercive interrogations of detainees held in detention centers and military "black sites." While other professional associations ...
Witnesses to Reality: Working Psychodynamically With Survivors of Terror1
Sep 01, 2008; ... As generations of young men and women return from combat scarred not only physically but also psychologically by their experiences, as civil wars and genocide proliferate and refugees seek sanctuary in America from persecution in their native countries, even while others are held in violation of ...
Healers or Interrogators: Psychology and the United States Torture Regime
Sep 01, 2008; ... United States abuses at Guantánamo and other detention centers, including the CIA's "Black Sites," have a long history. In the Cold War period, the CIA pursued an extensive research program on "coercive interrogations," which became codified in torture manuals used to train Latin American ...
Making Sense of the APA: A History of the Relationship Between Psychology and the Military
Sep 01, 2008; ... The American Psychological Association (APA) has been steadfast in its position that psychologists must have the right to participate in interrogations in U.S.-run illegal detention centers. One wonders why the APA is so resolute in this view especially in light of the opposition to involvement ...
The Psychodynamics of Torture
Sep 01, 2008; ... In this paper I consider some of the issues raised by the way the American Psychological Association has dealt with the participation of psychologists in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. I set forth some of my experience, and what I feel I learned, from trying to convince the Council of ...
Sacrificial Bodies: Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, Torture
Sep 01, 2008; ... In this paper, I illuminate the underlying demonology of religious terrorism. I argue that counter-terrorist practices mirror the demonology that they are designed to resist. This argument focuses on our system of detention and torture. I suggest that the terrorism-counter-terrorism discourse ...
Living Danger: On Not Knowing What We Know
Sep 01, 2008; ... This paper contextualizes the struggle around the American Psychological Association's ethical standards regarding psychologists' participation in abusive interrogations of detainees by examining the psychological and political meanings of living in a society in which the state assumes the right ...
Learning From History: An Interview With Robert Jay Lifton
Sep 01, 2008; ... On April 10, 2008, Rachael Peltz conducted an interview with psycho-historian, psychiatrist, and political activist Robert Jay Lifton. Dr. Lifton is best known for his creative and profound studies of both the extreme and ordinary psychological effects of the rapid, destabilizing, the sometimes ...
Language and Intersubjectivity: Multiplicity in a Bilingual Treatment
Jul 01, 2008; ... This paper explores the psychodynamics of analytic work conducted between a French patient and an American analyst who are both bilingual in French and English. The depth of the patient's early traumatic relational history is initially bound and cloistered in French, her mother tongue. The ...
Speech and Sensuality; Speech and Separation: Commentary on Paper by Sarah Hill
Jul 01, 2008; ... This discussion attends to the way the author addresses issues of bilingualism, multiple self-states, primary nonverbal attachments, and the complexity of countertransference identifications in a treatment with several overlapping language worlds. Language or rather speech practice is considered ...
Crossing Boundaries: Commentary on Paper by Sarah Hill
Jul 01, 2008; ... This commentary focuses on two aspects of Hill's presentation. First, it addresses the critical role of repetition compulsion in carrying into analytic enactments the patient's early, unsymbolized traumas. This discussion addresses, furthermore, Hill's reference to her early, preverbal, ...
Reply to Commentaries
Jul 01, 2008; ... In this reply to Adrienne Harris and Cleonie White's discussions of my article "Language and Intersubjectivity: Multiplicity in a Bilingual Treatment," I further explore the psychodynamics of bilingualism primarily in relation to implicit communication through spoken and unspoken language(s), ...
Wasted and Bombed: Clinical Enactments of a Changing Relationship to the Earth
Jul 01, 2008; ... Are changes in the relationship to the natural environment expressed in our psyches? I explore that question in this paper. Carefully considering clinical material of some young adults suggests that aspects of obliterative drinking and dissociative materialism may be enactments of a changing ...
The Sense of Self Inside and Environments Outside: How the Two Grow Together and Become One in Healthy Psychological Development
Jul 01, 2008; ... In contrast to ecopsychology, which segregates a person and environments and assumes that nature automatically provides stimulation which promotes a sense of well-being, I advocate my elaboration of the position of relational psychoanalysis which holds that a person's self and environments, both ...
Psychoanalysis and Nature: Commentary on Papers by Bodnar and Santostefano
Jul 01, 2008; ... This is a response to papers by Sebastiano Santostefano and Susan Bodnar. The response argues that the psychoanalytic view of constitutive conflict makes any assimilation of analysis and ecology very problematic. Patients may benefit from being in pleasant surroundings outside urban areas, but ...
When and How Does a Person's Relationship With Environments Begin and Continue to Play a Role in Psychological Functioning? Reply to Paper and Commentaries by Bodnar and Roth
Jul 01, 2008; ... Bodnar and I urge therapists to understand and address not only a person's conflicted desires, which Roth advocates should be the only focus of psychoanalytic treatment, but also the role space and place play in a person's psychology. The psychoanalysts Bodnar cites, who advocate the importance ...
In Gratitude: A Non-utopian Response to Roth and Santostefano
Jul 01, 2008; ... Roth and Santostefano have usefully expanded the dialogue about the environment's role in psychological functioning. Santostefano offers a clinical approach that utilizes landscapes in reworking trauma. Roth cautions that a utopian perspective falsely dichotomizes natural and cultivated into ...
Empire Stories: Imperious Objects and the Necessity of Fools
Jul 01, 2008; ... In this article, I examine and depict the attributes of empire narratives and discourse, arguing that these dominant narratives quietly shape and represent shared motivations of U.S. citizens in their active or tacit support of national hegemonic policies. Using an amended version of Winnicott's ...
Jonah: A Fantasy of Flight
May 01, 2008; ... In this paper, I explore a field of meaning evoked by Jonah's flight from God. Many commentaries and interpretations have emphasized the theological absurdity of such a flight; the prophets themselves have preached the omnipresence of God and the futility of human escapism. Classic midrashic ...
Jonah and Applied Psychoanalytic Dialogue: Introduction
May 01, 2008; ... This introduction to a series of fascinating papers on the biblical book of Jonah provides a brief schematic outline of the narrative as well as an orientation to the place of the book in the Jewish liturgy. An explanation is given for why a secular psychoanalytic audience might well be ...