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And now for something completely different - or at least different enough for Psychoanalytic Dialogues to make note of it in our introductory remarks. In this issue, we begin by shifting out of our familiar format of offering papers with discussions and replies. As editors, we are open to and interested in breaking free of constrictive patterns and experimenting with new ways of presenting novel and compelling clinical and theoretical material.
Speaking of which, we begin by offering three papers on psychedelic-assisted treatment in relation to psychoanalysis, an area of research long overdue for scrutiny and deserving in-depth exploration. By way of introduction, Philip Ringstrom situates a psychoanalytic interest in psychedelics in a reflection that is both personal and conceptual. Then, each paper offers a different perspective on psychedelics and psychoanalysis. Jeffrey Guss begins with an excellent overview of the use of psychedelics and psychedelic research, followed by a detailed description of key phenomena of specific interest to psychoanalysis. After exploring psychedelic experience through a psychoanalytic lens, Megan Rundel offers an essential clinical perspective with a nuanced portrayal of her use of the psychedelic agent ketamine in a long-term psychoanalytic treatment. And finally, Kevin Barrett takes a different tack in investigating what psychoanalytic theory might contribute to understanding what is curative in psychedelic-assisted therapies. We end our “trip” into psychedelic psychoanalysis with a “Coda” by Karen Rosica and Melanie Suchet. Rather than discuss the three papers, we invited Rosica and Suchet to explore the big picture of what this psychoanalytic-psychedelic dialogue offers and where it might lead.
We then turn to a paper by Emily Kuriloff, both personal and conceptual, on the transmission of trauma in relation to hysteria and abjection. It centers on a moving account of traumatic reenactment that took place at an academic conference a