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Before every issue goes into production, we get together and compose our thoughts for In This Issue to introduce the current edition of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and share something of our process and experience at this moment in time. For this issue, 33.3, we met on March 13, 2023, nearly three years to the day in March 2020 that COVID shut our lives down, setting in motion the cascade of events and revelations that would forever upend our sense of safety, individual and collective identity, personal and professional home. The last years have been an unparalleled time of reckoning, reflection, sorrow, and sociopolitical trauma with sequelae that have gained increasingly sharp focus in this journal and in our field.
Taking a second look at the maelstrom we have lived through and the uncertainties ahead, we grapple with the alterity of our project and our lives. As editors, we have tried to create a safe, virtual, intellectual gathering place in Dialogues. In so doing, we struggle continuously with the uneasy relationship between cohesion and disruption, familiarity and chaos, or what Freud termed the heimlich and the unheimlich. We have come to feel that providing space for this uneasy but generative dialectic is not only the new norm; it is our new home. Taken together, the articles in this Issue exemplify these complexities as each of these theoretically disparate psychoanalytic thinkers endeavor to find, imagine, query, and complicate the meaning of home as a psychic object and a social reality.
In her Credo, Jody Messler Davies, one of the founding voices of Relational Psychoanalysis, describes the evolution of her thinking. She reviews the unique ways she has integrated object relations theory and relational technique, outlines her innovative work with kaleidoscopic multiplicities, and discusses her emerging theoretical and clinical formulations. Most recently, she has turned her attention to relational work with the most hard to reach patients who exist in deaden