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Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n

This edition of the Bulletin <\/em>features the latest books, publications and presentations to be announced by members of the IARPP community. In addition, I am pleased to include a warm letter of greeting from our new president, Sandra Toribio Caballero<\/strong> (Spain).<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t already renewed your annual IARPP membership, it is time to do so. Here is the link: https:\/\/iarpp.memberclicks.net\/iarpprenewal2024<\/a>. If you have trouble with the link, please email: office@iarpp.net<\/a><\/p>\n

And if you wish to register for the June conference to be held in Mexico, you can do so here: https:\/\/iarpp.ce-go.com\/iarpp-conference-2024-mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

This month marks five years since Lew Aron\u2019s passing. Lew was, as many of you know, IARPP\u2019s founding president, a towering yet always approachable presence in our community from the early days of relational psychoanalysis. He first published his ideas on the different implications of one-\u00a0and\u00a0two-person\u00a0psychologies in 1990, and his well-known paper, \u201cThe Patient’s Experience of the Analyst’s Subjectivity,\u201d was featured in Psychoanalytic Dialogues<\/em>\u2019 inaugural issue a year later. His seminal contribution, A Meeting of Minds<\/em>: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis<\/em>, followed in 1996. In addition to elaborating so many central tenets of relational thinking, most especially the idea of a reciprocal yet asymmetrical analytic relationship, Lew ran NYU\u2019s Postdoctoral Program from 1998 until his death. Not only did he maintain his ongoing dedication to scholarship, both through his prolific writing and his editorial shepherding of so many other voices in the field, Lew also impacted hundreds of analysts through his revered study groups, and he generously mentored and encouraged many more besides. He was an amazing presenter \u2013 deeply knowledgeable, integrative, always vivid and dynamic \u2013 and he played rock guitar with the same blend of seriousness and joy, precision and fervor. He loved psychoanalysis and in turn was beloved by our psychoanalytic community.<\/p>\n

To help us measure Lew\u2019s lasting legacy, as well as the enormity of his loss, I\u2019ve asked several IARPP members who worked closely with Lew throughout his career to share some reflections from the vantagepoint of the nearly five years since his passing. Please click here<\/u><\/a>\u00a0 for their comments.<\/p>\n

A summary of the announcements contained herein:<\/p>\n

Tom\u00e1s<\/strong> Casado-Frankel<\/strong> (USA) has co-authored Early Relational Trauma and the Development of the Self: A Model of Therapeutic Accompaniment<\/em>, which closely follows a therapist-in-training\u2019s intense two-year treatment of a pregnant teenage girl, weaving together the life experiences of each. Building a therapeutic home in the clinical relationship and in a therapeutic community setting inscribes what the authors call a model of therapeutic accompaniment.<\/p>\n

In From Breakdown to Breakthrough: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis<\/em>, her tenth book, Danielle <\/strong>Knafo <\/strong>(USA) examines psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients. She and her co-author advise therapists not only to read and respond to the messages embedded in the psychotic symptoms but also to recognize and utilize the non-psychotic aspects of the patient in facilitating recovery.<\/p>\n

Louis Rothshild <\/strong>(USA) has published Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities<\/em> which develops a psychoanalytically affirmative portrait of fatherhood through the idea that fathers\u2019 attunement to relational mutuality and intimacy can be an important source of their sons\u2019 flourishing. As a critique of gendered rigidity, it explores the difficulty of integrating nurturing capacities into conceptions of masculinity.<\/p>\n

A second edition of Mary Lynne Ellis<\/strong>\u2019s (UK) Time in Practice: Temporality, Intersubjectivity, and Listening Differently<\/em>, is now available. This revised volume includes a new discussion of loss, vulnerability, mortality, inequalities, and powerlessness associated with\u00a0the\u00a0profound impact\u00a0of\u00a0the coronavirus,\u00a0climate change, and the Ukraine\u00a0war, building on the book\u2019s exploration of the diverse ways in which individuals \u2018live\u2019 time consciously and unconsciously.<\/p>\n

From Barbara Pizer <\/strong>(USA)<\/strong> comes a new book, Body Words and the Analyst\u2019s Use of Self: Transforming the Unspeakable in Clinical Process <\/em>in which a vivid unfolding of analytic process emerges. Estelle Shane admiringly notes \u201cthe poetry in Pizer’s prose that her old readers have come to expect and new readers, dreading theory-heavy, unimaginative writing, will welcome.\u201d Additionally, Pizer has published a paper centering on what she has dubbed the outrageous interpretation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Daniel Shaw<\/strong> (USA) has written two papers exploring shame as a cause of self-alienation and as sequelae to the traumatizing narcissist\u2019s relational system which can render sufferers vulnerable to cult recruitment.<\/p>\n

Brent Willock<\/strong> (Canada) analyzes the perplexing case of Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic athlete who killed his girlfriend during sudden arousal from sleep, by recruiting knowledge of dreaming and parasomnias (sleep disorders), perspectives not considered in Pistorius\u2019 trial.<\/p>\n

Ruth Lijtmaer<\/strong> (USA) has been presenting on immigration trauma, the challenges of working clinically with political material, and the interrelation of trauma, violence, and silence.<\/p>\n

If you would like news of your recent publications and\/or presentations to be announced in The IARPP Bookshelf<\/em>, please send the following materials to me at MattAibel [@] gmail.com by Sunday, May 26, 2024<\/u><\/strong> in order for your news to appear in the June edition:<\/p>\n