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The articles in this issue leave little doubt that analysts would be well-served by revisiting biblical and origin stories. The enduring relevance of bible stories for the practice of psychoanalysis has been shown in the work of Allen Siegel, Jeffrey Last, Melvin Bornstein, and Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold. The ways in which our own and our patients’ personal narratives are influenced by culture, history and the socio-political surround have been amply demonstrated by Barry Magid’s examination of Buddhist origin stories and Daniel Goldin’s exploration of psychoanalytic origin stories. By reviewing Karen Armstrong’s survey of religious traditions that honor the divine in nature, Margy Sperry provides us with glimmers of hope that our efforts to save our precious earth from human-inflicted damage will succeed.
Despite the broad variety of these articles, they have barely made a dent in the enormous trove of origin story treasures that await discovery. We hope that analysts have been inspired to search for them.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
Doris Brothers, Ph.D., is co-founder and faculty of the Training a Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation. She is the author of four books including, A New Theory of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES with Jon Sletvold. Co-director of the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.
Jon Sletvold, Psy.D., is founding board director of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He is the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality, 2014, winner of the Gradiva Award, 2015. His latest book, co-authored with Doris Brothers, is entitled A New Vision of Psychoanalytis Theory, Practice and Supervision: TALKING BODIES, Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2023. He is co-director with Doris Brothers of The Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment.