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As Psychoanalytic Perspectives continues to evolve, our dual-commitment to encouraging submissions from newcomers just breaking into the psychoanalytic writing scene as well as the more well-known and well-loved heavyweights remains primary. Several of the papers presented in this issue fall under our “New Voices” rubric, which pairs first-time, emerging psychoanalytic writers with more established analytic discussants. We also include two stand-alone contributions by prolific and well-published authors whose voices are nevertheless new to our pages. Our presented papers touch on a wide-ranging group of topics: psychosis unto itself and psychosis as it is presented in analytic training; intergenerational transmission of trauma and emotional inheritance; sexual identity diffusion; intersubjective dreaming; music as a therapeutic vehicle for connection at the end of a life, and the analyst’s countertransference (from an experiential perspective).
Shelley J. Klein, in “The Breakdown Happened—and What I Could Not Hear,” movingly describes how a beloved patient “disappeared” into psychosis, leaving her bereft and wondering what happened and what she might have missed in his treatment. A recent graduate of psychoanalytic training, she argues that psychoanalysis (and, in particular, relational psychoanalysis) has moved away from working with psychotic patients, leaving candidates at a loss when they are faced with this terribly difficult situation. Danielle Knafo, an expert in working with just such patients, discusses Klein’s case with an eye toward helping all of us to learn anew how, exactly, to listen for psychotic symptoms, and what to do when we hear them. Adrienne Katzow and Jonathan Rust, also recent graduates, expand Galit Atlas’ notion of emotional inheritance with two moving clinical vignettes. Katzow, in “Maternal Loss, Embodied Ghosts and Mourning,” writes on the usefulness of integrating somatic modalities with psychoanalysis to help her patient, a new mother,