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This issue, as noted in the introduction by editor Brian M. Robertson, is devoted to the “distinguished Freud scholar,” Patrick Mahony (p. 5). In an interview with Robertson, Mahony identified “four main themes in his psychoanalytic contributions”: applied psychoanalysis, language and writing, the clinical scene, and the history of psychoanalysis (p. 2). Mahony brings a unique perspective to these areas.
Regarding applied psychoanalysis, he seems to prefer the less imperialistic term co-involved psychoanalysis to describe his work involving psychoanalysis and the humanities (p. 2). In the area of language and writing, Mahony notes that “when analysts are attacked in the public square, they should be proudly aware that they clinically participate in a complex kind of discourse unique in previous or contemporary history” (p. 2). His experience in the clinical scene leads him to state that “writing a case history constitutes a selfanalytic follow-up,” and that “every published case history is by its very nature an extensive factual distortion” (p. 3).
Finally, Robertson relates Mahony's belief that “it is more appropriate to talk about a case history of psychoanalysis than [about] a history of psychoanalysis” (p. 3, italics added).