📚 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. Read now at pep-web! --- Visit www.theijp.org to find out how to subscribe to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

💬 In "Response to Erlich" Donald Moss reacts to Shmuel Erlich’s paper in Issue 1, 2025. Read now at pep-web! --- Visit www.theijp.org to find out how to subscribe to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

💬 In "Response to Parsons" Shmuel Erlich reacts to Michael Parsons’s paper in Issue 1, 2025. Read now at pep-web! --- Visit www.theijp.org to find out how to subscribe to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

💬 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). Read now at pep-web!

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.

🕰️ Last chance! The IJP Autumn Study Meeting is happening tomorrow, October 11. ✅ Register now and bring your questions, critiques, and reflections. 📖 We look forward to seeing you!

📃 Excerpt #4 from Luca Quagelli’s "Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children" Join our IJP Autumn Study Meeting on October 11 and read now at pep-web!

📃 Excerpt #3 from Luca Quagelli’s "Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children" Join our IJP Autumn Study Meeting on October 11 and read now at pep-web!

📃 Excerpt #2 from Luca Quagelli’s "Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children" Join our IJP Autumn Study Meeting on October 11 and read now at pep-web!

📃 Excerpt #1 from Luca Quagelli’s "Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children" Join our IJP Autumn Study Meeting on October 11 and read now at pep-web!

✨ Join us for the IJP Autumn Study Meeting on Saturday, October 11, featuring Luca Quagelli’s "Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children."

Continuing in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Didier Houzel's "Structural Stability in the Analytic Process" explores how dynamic systems theory can illuminate transitions between different forms of psychic stability.

In Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, Maria Inês Neuenschwander Carneiro presents "Sunflowers Don't Always Seek the Sun", a clinical case exploring atypical eating not as an isolated "disease" but as a communication of compromised mental states. Read now at pep-web!

Continuing in the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section, Leandro Jofré’s "A Reading of Stereotypy in Autism Through the Concept of Iteration" reconsiders how repetition functions in the clinical profile of autism. Read now at pep-web!

Opening Issue 4 in the Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique section, Jill Salberg’s "Crises and Enactments while Ending Treatment" addresses the complexities of termination when early trauma shapes the analytic encounter.

✨ We’re delighted to announce that Issue 4 of Volume 106 of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis is now available online!

🎂 Happy 140th Birthday to Karen Horney, born on this day in 1885!

We are living in violent times, and this conference brings together psychoanalytic reflections on trauma, ethics, childhood, myth, and poetic form to explore how external and internal violence enters the world and the consulting room

The IJP Annual Online Conference 2026 will feature four leading psychoanalysts presenting on diverse aspects of violence. Join John Steiner, Giuseppe Civitarese, Cecilia Taiana, and Joshua Durban as they explore violence in its many forms, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Francis Grier on 10 January 2026

Join us for the **IJP Annual 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.

🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

✨ How do sensory experiences open pathways for connection in analytic work with autistic children? At our Autumn Study Meeting, Luca Quagelli explores this question in dialogue with Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban. #психоанализ #psykoanalyysi #פסיכואנליזה #psykoanalys #ψυχανάλυση #theijp #pepweb

📝 Register now to join us online for the Summer IJP Study Meeting with Luca Quagelli 📅 Saturday 11th October ⏰ 2–4pm BST 🎟 Register via Eventbrite or via PaDS at www.psychoanalystdatabase.com More info: www.theijp.org/study-meetings

🎂 Happy 128th Birthday to Wilfred Bion, born on this day in 1897!

🗓️ Join us on 11 October 2025 for our Autumn Study Meeting. Luca Quagelli will present Sensory Interweavings and Relational Openings in Clinical Work with Autistic Children, with discussions by Maria Rhode and Joshua Durban.

We are concluding our Issue 3 posts with some impressions from the IJP Panel at the 54th IPA Congress: Francis Grier (EIC) chaired the discussion with Heinz Weiss (Education Section Editor), Elizabeth Allison (Psychoanalytic Controversies Editor), and Abbot Bronstein (Analyst at Work Editor)

Lastly in our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress: 'Tradition and Change in Psychoanalytic Theory: Querying the Infantile' by Stephen Seligman. Seligman reflected on how theory shapes not only clinical choices but also institutional culture and belonging.

Next up in our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress: Tales of the Triangle. Thoughts on Essentials of Psychoanalysis Across Cultures by Tomas Plaenkers. He examined the Oedipus complex through a cross-cultural lens, asking whether Freud’s “universal triangularity” holds across contexts.

Continuing our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress with Extensions of Narcissism: Psychoanalysis, War, Climate by E. César Merea. This paper proposed an “extensive psychoanalysis” to address pressing global and psychic challenges — from war to the climate crisis.

Starting off our keynote highlights from the 54th IPA Congress with 'Transformative Encounters: Bridging Cyber- and Analytic Space' by Sun Ju Chung.

About a month ago, the 54th IPA Congress took place in Lisbon, bringing together psychoanalysts and colleagues from across the world. This year’s theme, “Psychoanalysis: An Anchor in Chaotic Times,” set the tone for four days of dialogue, reflection, and exchange.

Concluding our series on IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), In-Soo Lee delves beneath Korea’s harmonious surface to uncover the deep-rooted cultural and psychic strains shaped by Confucianism, exploring narcissistic vulnerability, family dynamics, and idealized social roles.

Continuing our review of IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), Louise Gyler examines the dynamics of recognition and non-recognition, exploring how identity, trauma, and creative expression intersect in clinical work and the art of Waanyi artist Judy Watson.

Starting off our revisit of the IPA Asia Pacific Congress Papers (2024), Hsueh-Mei Fan explores the “couch of paranoia” and the impact of ancestral expectations on the psychic life in Taiwanese culture. Read now at pep-web!

Concluding, Nickolas Pappas reviews Patrick Fuery’s Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 248 pp., US $84.00, ISBN: 9781501376351), tracing the interplay of corporeality, cinema, and psychoanalytic reflection.

Next up, Dale S. Gody examines Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today. Femininity, Desire and Agency, edited by Margarita Cereijido, Paula L. Ellman, and Nancy R. Goodman (Routledge, 2022, 201 pp., US $42.95 [pbk], ISBN: 9781032017815)

Continuing our Book Review section, Julie Jaffee Nagel delves into Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin’s Here I’m Alive. The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia University Press, 2023, 304 pp., ISBN: 9780231209441 [hc], 9780231209458 [tpb], 97800231557948 [e-book])

Staring off our Book Reviews in Issue 3, James W. Barron reflects on Gabrielle Junkers’ Living and Containing Psychoanalysis in Institutions: Psychoanalysts Working Together (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2023, 186 pp., US $31.96, ISBN: 9781032295138)