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In this issue, our first as coeditors, we find ourselves reflecting on the expected and the unexpected, and how these polarities and their dialectic inform our work and our lives. In “Missing Genders: Commentary on the Roundtable Discussion: Violence and Aggression in the Consulting Room” (issue 6.1), Katie Gentile raises the important but overlooked question of gender, and we hear from Abby Stein in response. This is followed by “Psychoanalysts in Exile,” Theresa Aiello's fascinating glimpse into the minds of three European analysts who were among the wave of analysts that emigrated to our shores in the 1930s and '40s. Though we couldn't have known it at the time, their work was to influence generations of American psychoanalysts, their colleagues, patients, and students. Likewise, in “When Only a Jolt Will Do,” we again consider the influence of theory as we bear uncomfortable witness to Elizabeth Janssen's struggles to stay afloat in the midst of a treatment impasse that can only be resolved through her discovery of a new theoretical paradigm.
In “Developing a Narrative in Analysis and Memoir,” Clemens Loew references memoirist Patricia Hampl, who tells us that she doesn't write to reveal what she knows, but rather to discover what she knows. We might say the same about any analytic exploration. Indeed, curiosity and the need to discover have moved psychoanalyst Sophia Richman to take up writing and writer Helen Epstein to enter psychoanalytic treatment. We hear about their journeys in Richman's “Secrets and Mystifications: Finding Meaning Through Memoir” and Epstein's “Whose Story Is It? Constructing Narrative in Analysis and Memoir.”
“Assaulted Boundaries,” Paul Steinberg's review of Linda Hopkins' False Self—The Life of Masud Khan, introduces us to Kahn, his relationship with Winnicott, and to the notion that theoretical and other influence sometimes