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IN THIS ISSUE, WE CELEBRATE THE HUMAN SPIRIT BY EXULTING IN THE new—by honoring our unique voices and our muses of originality. We honor our most imaginative and playful selves, and in doing so, we bring home the sweet elixir of change.
With the publication of this special issue on the arts, it is interesting to look back at the early years of this journal. From its inception in 2001, a place has been made in Psychoanalytic Perspectives for creative expression. Over the years, contributors to the Creative Literary Arts section have included a six-year-old poet, a 92-year-old feminist, several analysts and psychotherapists, analysts-in-training, writers, photographers, teachers, and one brilliant bipolar inmate who is in and out of a mental institution.
In 2005, hundreds of people from as far away as South Africa answered our call for Poetry from People in Analysis, writing about the effects of therapy, from the simplest to the most profound. In another issue, Unexpected Poets published poetry written by the most unlikely authors, including Marilyn Monroe, Barack Obama, and Pablo Picasso. Thomas Ogden published his first poem in Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and Robert Stolorow had two poems published. We also received an outpouring of poetry from Tulane University in New Orleans on the devastating impact that Hurricane Katrina had on ordinary people who desperately wanted their voices heard.
In this issue, we are publishing the work of three talented poets.
David Austern uses poetry as a therapeutic tool, and his poems are all confessional/autobiographical. His father, who drowned when David was 13, appears in many of his poems.