Other/Wise and Selected Papers from IFPE Conferences
Welcome to the online journal of the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. Other/Wise and Selected Papers from IFPE Conferences are journals that offer a selected sampling of papers based on presentations made at IFPE’s most recent conference. Reflecting IFPE’s commitment to originality, creativity and diversity of thought and format, contributions can and have included scholarly papers, clinical papers, personal and autobiographical narratives, poetry, artwork, films and music.
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Other/Wise: Selected Papers From the 2023 IFPE Conference,
“. . . but is it psychoanalytic?”
Spring 2024
Issue 1
Anti-Self, Help! and the Myth of Mental Health
Michael Allison
Being in the Sonoran Desert
Karol Marshall
Know and Care for Thyself: Selfies as Technologies of the Self
Melissa Meade, Ph.D.
The Role (and Limits) of Intention in Personal Transformation
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
To repair or not to repair, that is the question … but is it psychoanalytic?
Bryan K. Nichols
Our Inheritance, Confronting the Sadistic Absence-of-Love and the Path to Ecological Repair
Tiffany H. Raether, Ph.D.(c)
Broken Oneness/Broken Wonder: The Psychic Kinship Ties of Michael Eigen and Spotnitz’s Modern Psychoanalysis
Adam Shechter
Psychoanalysis and History: Past and Present: Reworking trauma within one’s life cycle and its impact on how we work
Hanna Turken, LCSW, BCD, LPpsA
Other/Wise: Selected Papers From the 2022 IFPE Conference,
Disruptions and Transformations
Spring 2023
Issue 1
IFPE 2022 President’s Address: Psychoanalytic Thinking and Having an Impact in a Divided World
Laurence Green, Psy.D., LCSW
What Do We Owe?: Reflections on Supremacy, Debt, and Desire
Ramie Bou-Saab, LCSW
No apologies. Unfinished business and the pact to forget.
Ruth Lijtmaer, Ph.D.
Intrusive Thoughts, Magical Thinking and Fragmentation: A Psychoanalytic Reconsideration
Dr. Donna Mahoney, Ph.D., LCPC, Monica Hershman, and Christine Betsill
Thunder, Lightning, and the Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis
J. Colby Martin, Ph.D.
Transforming Shame: Taming the Intolerable
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
A Personal Journey from Disruption Due to Trauma to Transition, Post-traumatic growth, and Meaning
Marjorie Harris Newman, Psy.D.
Ukrainian Freud or Whence Ukraine in Psychoanalysis?
Oksana Yakushko, Ph.D.
Please click on the links below for previous Other/Wise editions:
Fall 2020: Issue 2, 2019 Conference “BORDERS”
Issue Contents:
The Strategic Deployment of Hate in a Politics of Love
Bryan K. Nichols, Ph.D. and Medria L. Connolly, Ph.D.
Fascism, Psychoanalysis, and Mass Psychology of the Primal Horde
Farrell Silverberg, Ph.D.
Border Security and the Self
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
Freud in Cambridge: Relational Geographies of Psychoanalysis
Laura Jean Cameron, Ph.D.
Exegesis of the Tao Te Ching, Genesis, With Borders and Without Borders
Jack Wiener, LP, CDMT
The Immigrant Adolescent and the In-body Issue
Marcela França de Almeida
Spring 2020: Issue 1, 2018 Conference “UNSILENCING”
Issue Contents:
Transforming Ghosts into Ancestors: Un-silencing the psychological case for reparations to descendants of American slavery
Bryan K. Nichols, Ph.D. and Medria L. Connolly, Ph.D.
The Unsilencing of a Holocaust Survivor
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
Silenced and Unsilenced: Why didn’t they talk before?
Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD
Unsilencing Biculturalism: Giving Voice to the In-Between
Jenni June Villegas Wilson, LMFT
Saying Goodbye
Anne E. Reckling, Psy.D.
Unsilenced: The seduction and betrayal of a psychoanalyst, personal saga
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA.
Inheritance of Shame: A Story of Conversion Therapy
Peter Gajdics
The Silenced Goddess of Death
Christine Downing, Ph.D.
The Death Drive as the Essence of the Orgasm: Unsilencing the Positive Aspects of Thanatos
Diana Faydysh M.A., Ph.D. Student
Maiden of the Mer: An Imaginal Approach to Unsilencing Female Voice
Nitsa Dimitrakos, Ph.D.
The Unsilencing of Oedipus: Time, Monstrousness, Truth, and Shame
Ladson Hinton, M.A., M.D.
When You Can’t Find the Words, All You Can Do Is Scream
Lynn McCann, M.S.W.
Fall 2018: Issue 1, 2017 Conference “Time”
Issue Contents:
Trauma, Autobiographical Sharing and the Experience of Time
Susan G. Burland, Ph.D.
The Subjectivity of Time: Time as persecutory, frozen, or holding: How time is transformed within clinical treatment
Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA
Reminiscence and Reflection: Life Review Therapy with An Elderly Patient
Rachel Saks, Psy.D.
Oedipus —Myth, Reality and the Distribution of Guilt: With special consideration of Oedipus at Colonus
Detelina Stoykova, M.A., M.A.
On Being Fifty: A developmental crossroads and a time to reckon with past, present and future.
Hanna Turken LpsyA, BCD, LCSW
Arrested Time in Wordsworth’s Poetry and in Psychoanalysis
Barbara Shapiro, Ph.D.
Cross-Temporal Sonatas in Staccato Ostinato
Cenk Cokuslu, LP, NCPsyA
Winter 2017: Issue 1, 2016 Conference “SKIN”
Issue Contents:
Promoting Empowerment in the Face of Societal Inequities: What I learned as a Psychologist in the Hood
Bryan K. Nichols, Ph.D.
The Gift that Keep's on Giving: Skin
Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D.
Tattoo as Personal Ritual
River Malcolm
“Can I have a Band-Aid®?:”Two-dimensional sacred space: between second skin and transitional objects
Orit Weksler
Thin-Skinned and Thick-Skinned: The Story of a Relationship
Edith (Edie) G. Boxer
Between Fur and Skin
Paul Zelevansky
Skin Deep: Our Self-Defeating Resistance To Empathizing With “Superficial” Evidence-Based Therapy Models
M. Chet Mirman, Ph.D.
Psychoanalytic Institutes as “Second Skin”: Bullying and the Challenges of Belonging, Authority, and Uncertainty
George Bermudez, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Winter 2016: Volume 2, Winter Edition, 2015 Conference, Vulnerability and Its Discontents
Issue Contents:
Affect in the Management of Vulnerability
Dorothea Leicher
Holding and the Dilemma of Inadequacy: Reflections on Group Supervision of Practicum Students
Rachel Saks
Vulnerability and Narrative: The Hazards of Exposure in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction
Barbara Schapiro
Two Essays From A Field Study On Vulnerability In The Creative Process
Debra Gitterman & John McInerney
When the Therapist is in Mourning: Exploring the Impact on Clinical Practice
Mary Dougherty
Empathy for the Double
Paul Zelevansky
Unfreezing Disney’s Snow Queen©: Consolation Through Vulnerability in a Modern Fairy Tale
Sara Bressi
Immigration and its discontents: Challenges and tensions between vulnerability and growth
Andrea Rihm
Giving deeply traumatized refugees the space they need in which to reconstruct the boundary they have lost between reality and fantasy, while they face language and cultural barriers
Leticia Castrechini-Franieck
The Vulnerable Self and the Vulnerable Community: A Challenge/Problem for Psychoanalysis?
George Bermudez & Craig Kramer
Resentment as a defense against skillful Vulnerability
Lynne G. Tenbusch
Crushing (Work in Progress.)
Judith E. Vida
Fall 2016: Volume 1, Fall Edition, 2015 Conference, Vulnerability and Its Discontents
Issue Contents:
Psyche-Soma Disturbances: Working Psychoanalytically with Visual Impairment and the Dilemma of Recognition
Isolde Keilhofer, LP
The Vulnerability of the Body and Awareness
Jack Wiener, LP, CDMT
Tale of Pistorius: Prosthetic Aliveness as Vulnerability
Cenk Cokuslu, LP, NCPsyA
Walking on Glass: From Invulnerability to Vulnerability - Encountering Shame and Desire
Joyce Block, Ph.D.
A Parallel Journey Into Self
Antonia Noble Ludwig, Psy.D. MFT.
Vulnerability in the NeuroPsychoanalytic Relational Process: Attending to Somatic Counter-Transference through Conscious Breath and Movement
Elisabeth R. Crim, Ph.D.
Fall 2015: Volume 2, Fall Edition, 2014 Conference, necessary fictions
Issue Contents:
The Myth of the Expected Loss: How clinicians interact with their mortality in clinical and professional practice
Karol Marshall, Ph D, 2009 Distinguished Educator, Joe Hovey, MSW, and Rachel Newcombe, LICSW
Truth and Fiction: When Patient and Therapist Are Revealed
Linda Sherby, Ph.D., ABPP
Reading, Writing and Winnicott: Reconstructing the Story of ‘I’ in the ‘Good-Enough’ Space
Elizabeth Wolfson, Ph.D.
Playing Language Games with the Bovarys: The Shift from Monologue to Dialogue in Couples-Therapy Through the Lens of Literary Lovers
Irit Paz
Nietzsche’s Necessary Fictions Become Psychoanalytic Narratives
Lynne G. Tenbusch
Psychoanalysis Is Not A Relationship.
João Pedro Dias and Richard Raubolt
Summer 2015: Volume 1, Summer Edition, 2014 Conference, necessary fictions
(Additional editions to be posted soon.)