When he firsts views his beloved Beatrice (they are both nine years old), Dante hears two voices in his head: first "Now the source of joy has been has been revealed," then "Woe is me! For I shall often be impeded from now on."
In Book VI of the Aeneid Virgil interrupts the main action of Aeneas and his men --escaping from Troy and founding Rome--to tell a very different sort of story. Aeneas risks everything to go down into the underworld, the land of the dead.
I hope you will share your reactions to the most recent conference in Vancouver by sending your comments to me at: eforum@iapsp.org. Let your colleagues know what you liked or didn't like about the conference, what you found most meaningful or what you would have
I am happy to introduce you to a paper written by Mira Horwitz. This paper was presented at the April 2019 'Association Day' of the Israel Association for Self Psychology and the Study of Subjectivity with the participation of Donna Orange Psy.D. as our Guest. With
What can help us face up to the horrors with which climate change threatens us? Wittgenstein (1953) characterized philosophy as "a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language" (section 109). In an earlier essay (Stolorow & Atwood, 2017), Atwood and I
I am very happy to announce that eForum is launching a new column designed to provide IAPSP members with the lively voices of a various Eastern self psychologists and intersubjectivity theorists, mainly in Japan and Taiwan. Japan has a long history of psychoanalysis. It is said
ARTIST STATEMENT Stacy Berlin, Psy.D. Starlet's Strange World Starlet is an amalgamation of several patients with developmental trauma. Everything looked good yet felt "off". She was a surrealist. Memories lack emotion - detachment, emotional numbness Desperate to be seen, hides uniqueness - feel monstrous Long to belong, fit into the world -
China has embarked on a new journey towards contemporary therapy. In the last couple of years, the Chinese Self Psychology and Intersubjectivity community has been booming as its activities and impact have accelerated and expanded. Numerous initiatives, including basic and advanced psychotherapy training programs, study
Note from the Editor Having delighted in the first in-person IAPSP conference in Washington, D.C. since the pandemic forced us to gather online, the vitality of our community has never seemed greater. We hope that eForum will continue to provide rich, meaningful opportunities for IAPSP members
The Child and Adolescent Initiative hosted an online discussion of Heather MacIntosh's paper, A Bridge Across Silent Trauma: Enactment, Art and Emergence in the Treatment of a Traumatized Adolescence. This paper, published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in 2017, recounts Heather's treatment of a severely traumatized, highly