🎶 Continuing in Issue 6 in the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section, Sebastian Leikert explores voice, body-self, and trauma in the analytic space. From the mother’s voice in the womb to the echoes of ritual and music, voice carries emotions beyond words.
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🧠 Opening Issue 6 in the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section reflects on Alessandra Lemma’s notion of the meniscus of the self in technogenetic times. When reflection becomes surface bound, coherence can come at the cost of depth.
✨ Issue 6 brings together Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, Psychoanalytic Controversy, Key Papers, Clinical Dilemmas, IPA Congress Panel Reports, and Book Reviews, with a strong focus on ethics, anonymity, the superego, trauma, and the conditions of analytic work in digital contexts.
🔔 Coming up next week: IJP Winter Study Meeting
Join us on Saturday 14th February from 2–4pm (GMT) for our next Study Meeting, featuring Jill Salberg discussing her thought-provoking paper "Crises and Enactments
While Ending Treatment " (Vol. 105, Issue 4, IJP).
Jill Salberg with discussants
Lesley Steyn and Stefano Bolognini 💬
14 February 2026
2:00 to 4:00 pm BST ⏰
Online via Zoom 💻
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📝 Register now to join us online next Saturday!
📅 Saturday 14 February 2026
⏰ 2:00 to 4:00 pm GMT
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟 Registration via Eventbrite and PaDS (free for IJP subscribers)
More info at www.theijp.org/study-meetings
🔔 Coming up next month: IJP Winter Study Meeting
Join us on Saturday 14th February from 2–4pm (BST) for our next Study Meeting, featuring Jill Salberg discussing her thought-provoking paper "Crises and Enactments
While Ending Treatment " (Vol. 105, Issue 4, IJP).
Jill Salberg with discussants
Lesley Steyn and Stefano Bolognini 💬
14 February 2026
2:00 to 4:00 pm BST ⏰
Online via Zoom 💻
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Go to buff.ly/9fCIzbi or visit buff.ly/AXJ9Yys to find out how to subscribe to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
📝 Register now to join us online with Jill Salberg, Lesley Steyn and Stefano Bolognini
📅 Saturday 14 February 2026
⏰ 2:00 to 4:00 pm BST
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟 Registration via Eventbrite and PaDS (free for IJP subscribers)
More info at www.theijp.org/study-meetings
Last chance 🔔 Join us tomorrow for the IJP Online Conference 2026 on Saturday 10 January 2026. Register via the IOPA to secure your spot now: psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...
Here’s our programme for this Saturday, when John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, Joshua Durban, and Francis Grier will explore extreme violence – in war, childhood, autism, and the consulting room.
🗓️ Join us this weekend for the IJP Online Conference 2026 on Saturday 10 January 2026. Register via the IOPA to secure your spot now: psychoanalysis.org.uk/civicrm-even...
Go to buff.ly/9fCIzbi or visit buff.ly/AXJ9Yys to find out how to subscribe to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
✨ We’re delighted to share that Issue 5 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online!
📚 In our Book Review section, Sharon Numa reviews The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter, edited by Beverly J. Stoute and Michael Slevin (Routledge, 2023), a collection of essays examining racism as collective and individual trauma through the lens of psychoanalysis.
📚 In our Book Review section, Miguel Leivi reviews On Freud’s “Neurosis and Psychosis” and “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” 100 Years Later, edited by Gabriela Legorreta and Catalina Bronstein (Routledge, 2024).
💬 In "Response to Moss" Shmuel Erlich reacts to Donald Moss’s letter.
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💬 In "Response to Erlich" Donald Moss reacts to Shmuel Erlich’s paper in Issue 1, 2025.
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💬 In "Response to Parsons" Shmuel Erlich reacts to Michael Parsons’s paper in Issue 1, 2025.
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💬 In "Israel–Palestine and the Internal World" Michael Parsons reacts to Shmuel Erlich's paper in the Psychoanalytic Controversies Section on the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Issue 1, 2025).
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Rosemary H. Balsam commemorates Harold P. Blum in "In Memory of Harold P. Blum, MD".
Steven Cooper cherishes the memory of Lucy Bergson LaFarge.
In "The Experience of Being Known," Nathan Kravis honors Lucy LaFarge.
✉️ Letter to the Editor: Responding to Oren Gozlan’s critique, Roberto D’Angelo invokes the history of psychoanalysis and homosexuality to defend his call for greater empirical rigor. He asserts that Gozlan's letter and the prevailing psychoanalytic zeitgeist sidestep scientific evidence
In "A Critique of Roberto D’Angelo’s “Do We Want to Know?”," Oren Gozlan argues that gender does not conceal psychic conflict but recruits and metabolizes it. He cautions against reducing trans youth to a type, reminding us that “Psychoanalysis does not treat populations. It listens to subjects.”
🚀 Second in our Interdisciplinary Studies category: Francisco Pizarro Obaid and Rodrigo De la Fabián’s “Marie Langer, Psychoanalysis and Science Fiction: A Yearning for Change”
🎬 In our Film Essay section, Jan Borowicz’s “On Man Who Lives Once Every Two Times: The Days When I Do Not Exist” (IJP 106:4) explores a man who vanishes every other day, using Fitoussi’s film to examine the psychic struggle to metabolize thoughts and emotions
🔥 First of two in our Interdisciplinary Studies section, John Steiner’s “Injury, Grievance, and Revenge, in the Wrath of Achilles” explores how rage born of humiliation turns inward as grievance or outward as revenge, tracing Achilles’ transformation from withdrawal to violent action.
🦠 In “The Representation of Pandemic Anxieties in a Psychoanalytic Group Psychodrama for Adolescents and Young Adults”, Olivier Taieb and colleagues explore how a psychodrama group in a Paris day hospital helped young people restore a transitional space during the Covid-19 crisis.
👤 In “Processual Readings of the Drive Trajectory of a Perpetrator of Domestic Violence”, Élise Pelladeau and Alexandre Cedano explore the therapeutic treatment of a patient imprisoned for domestic violence.
In her paper “Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma” Dionne R. Powell explores how racial trauma is transmitted across generations and structured into the psyche.
