Dear IARPP Colleagues,
It’s my pleasure to serve as new editor of the IARPP newsletter, in which role I’ll continue the tradition of bringing you updates from around the relational world and from our many active leadership committees as well as continuing to draw attention to new publications and presentations from our international membership.
This IARPP Bookshelf issue highlights the emerging realm of embodied psychoanalytic work. Silvia B. Birklein announces her book chapter exploring physical movement’s capacities to enhance vitality and integration, and Ravit Raufman has released a book on the affinity between idiomatic expressions and somatic behaviors and symptoms.
A theme of gender exploration threads through as well. Petra Beuskens interrogates the contradiction between western women’s autonomous and maternal selves, suggesting that while women are increasingly granted freedom as individuals, they continue to be constrained as mothers. Steven Seidman has co-authored a book limning today’s rapidly changing gender landscape in terms of its impacts on the lives of men; he challenges narrow stereotyped views, arguing that men’s subjectivities are as complex and layered as women’s.
You’ll also encounter such absorbing topics as: sex & drugs; politics & psychopathy; racial and ethnic perspectives & the ameliorative power of apology; the poetics of place & the identification of geographical narcissism in our field – a topic definitely worth a close look by those of us who practice in urban centers (guilty).
Below you’ll find a detailed list of all articles in this Bookshelf issue. Click on any item to be taken directly to it, or select an item from the menu scrolling down the left margin.
Congratulations to our creative and scholarly IARPP members on your contributions to our field.
A personal note: Having attended my first IARPP conference and followed the online colloquia while still in training, I’ve come of analytic age with this organization. I’m delighted now to have this opportunity to further its mission of connecting and enhancing relational voices from around the globe. I look forward to collaborating with you all on this endeavor. I also wish to recognize the excellent work of my immediate predecessors in this undertaking, Christina Emanuel (whom I thank for showing me the ropes over the past few months with equal parts precision and good humor) and Maria Tammone.
We welcome your submissions. Please see below for information on submitting items for upcoming issues of the IARPP Bookshelf or eNews. The next submission deadline is March 31, 2018.
Thanks for reading.
Faithfully,
Matt Aibel
New York City
New Books by and edited by IARPP Members
Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract
Petra Beuskens
El Dolor es Sordo (Pain is Deaf)
Laura Molet Estaper
Sex, Drugs, and Creativity: Searching for Magic in a Disenchanted World
Danielle Knafo
The Aesthetic of Otherness: meeting at the boundary in a desensitized world – Proceedings
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Idiomatic Expressions and Somatic Experience in Psychoanalysis: Relational and Inter-Subjective Perspectives
Ravit Raufman
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men: Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty
Steven Seidman
Articles, Presentations, and Other Writing
The Personal is Political is Psychoanalytic: Politics in the Consulting Room
Matt Aibel
Contours of Vitality in Movement
Silvia B. Birklein
Articles
Malin Fors
Articles & Presentations
Elizabeth F. Howell, Sheldon Itzkowitz
Articles & Presentation
Ruth LIjtmaer
Chapter & Article
Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Articles & Presentation
BIllie Pivnick
Working with Dissociated Aggression in Traumatized Patients
Daniel Shaw
Presentations
Danielle Knafo
Click here to go to Bookshelf December 2018
Submissions to the Bookshelf:
We invite all IARPP members to submit announcement of their publications and presentations. Our next deadline for submissions is March 31, 2018. Please include the following materials with your submission:
- Title of your recent or upcoming publication or presentation
- Brief description of its content (such as an abstract)
- Link to a publisher (if applicable) so that members might access or purchase a copy
- Book cover photo or artwork (if applicable)
- Digital photograph of yourself (jpeg format)
- Professional contact information as you would like it to appear publicly for our readers (email and mailing address)
- For presentations, please include location and spell out any acronyms
Please send submissions to matt.aibel@gmail.com.
Matt Aibel, LCSW
New York City
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