The March 2025 issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, edited by Stephen Hartman, Lauren Levine, and Amy Schwartz Cooney, offers a rich exploration of relational psychoanalysis through diverse lenses, as introduced in their editorial.
Margaret Rubin’s Calamities and Secrets, the Power of the Fetish (open access) explores the psychoanalytic significance of fetishes in trauma, with discussions like Jody Messler Davies’s The Horsehead and the Man of Steel (open access) and Ofra Eshel’s Delving into the Never-Ending Challenge of Reinventing Psychoanalysis for Severe Perversion (open access), followed by Rubin’s reply Bearing the Unbearable (open access). The “Après Coup” section revisits Virginia Goldner’s work (open access), with contributions like Bob Bartlett’s The Tools We Carry and Marcela López González’s Disorganized Attachment in Romantic Couples: A Cross-Cultural Relational Approach (USA–Mexico) also available in Spanish, examining couples therapy through a relational lens.
Deborah Bryon’s Reflection, Representation, and Diffraction in the Analytic Process Based Upon Quantum Theory introduces quantum theory to psychoanalysis, with Terry Marks-Tarlow’s commentary Why Physics? and Bryon’s reply “Understanding Diffraction as an Aspect of Working with Metaphor.
A key section, “Notes from the Field: Therapists Working in Wartime Ukraine,” introduced by Amy Schwartz Cooney (open access), features several essays that delve into the psychological impacts of war. Alyona Esse-Chukanova’s Reflections on the Psychological and Relational Impact of War examines how conflict reshapes relational dynamics, while Oksana Lyzak’s A Story with No Ending poignantly captures the ongoing trauma faced by therapists and clients. Iryna Blazhina’s The Complexity of Experiencing War from a Distance and Changes in Group Therapy Dynamics During War explore the emotional toll of war from afar and its effects on group therapy. Olena Khrystych’s Constructive Profession in Destructive Times reflects on maintaining therapeutic integrity amidst chaos, and Nina Kryzhanivska’s Emigration (Refugee-Hood) During War: Personal and Analytic Reflections addresses the challenges of displacement.
You can view the full list of articles from this rich and extensive edition of Psychoanalytic Dialogues.