Issue 1 - The Adoption Journey11 articlesPROLOGUEp. 1Linda Gunsberg & Linda MayersI. Development of the NarrativeLeft Without a Word: Learning Rhythms, Rhymes, and Reasons in Adoptionp. 3Billie A. PivnickMental Representation and Change: Developing Attachment Relationships in an Adoption Contextp. 25Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk & Howard SteeleWill You Be My Mommy? A Quest of a Child to Fill in the Gaps in the Process of Bonding With Her Adoptive Parentsp. 41Kerstin KupfermannMyra's Story: A Life Narrative as It Unfolds in the Treatment and Journey of an Adopted Womanp. 54Sandra RosengartenA Commentary on Myra's Life: The Creation of a Storyp. 63Linda MayersII. The Ghost KingdomGhosts in the Adopted Familyp. 71Betty Jean LiftonSecondary Infertility and Birth Mothersp. 80Isabel AndrewsAdoptees as Parentsp. 94Zara PhillipsAn Invitation Into the Ghost Kingdomp. 102Linda GunsbergEPILOGUEp. 111Linda Mayers, Linda Gunsberg, Isabel Andrews, Kerstin Kupfermann, Betty Jean Lifton, Julie Marcus, Zara Phillips, Billie Pivnick, Sandy Rosengarten & Miriam Steele
Issue 2 - Israeli Psychoanalysts: A Study in Resiliency8 articlesPROLOGUEp. 113Melvin BornsteinMy Wayp. 116Emanuel BermanMy Way to Psychoanalysisp. 133Pinchas NoyPatient–Analyst Interconnectedness: Personal Notes on Close Encounters of a New Dimensionp. 146Ofra EshelBecoming a Psychoanalyst—An Autobiographical Fragment*p. 155
Issue 3 - Forms of Creative Expression in Psychoanalysis10 articlesPROLOGUEp. 205Alan Kindler, Rosalind Chaplin Kindler & Carol M. PressBetween Aesthetics, the Coconstruction of Empathy, and the Clinicalp. 207George Hagman & Carol M. PressSpontaneity and Improvisation in Psychoanalysisp. 222Alan KindlerYes/and, Alan! A Few Additional Thoughtsp. 235Philip A. RingstromThe Opening of the Field: Thoughts on the Poetics of Psychoanalytic Treatment
Issue 4 - How Does a Person Know What's Going on in the Mind of Another?8 articlesPROLOGUEp. 287Melvin BornsteinMentalizing Mindsp. 289Elliot L. JuristThe Development of Mentalisation in Children From a Theory of Mind Perspectivep. 301Karin Ensink & Linda C. MayesReacting to the Analyst's State of Mindp. 338Mary Jane OtteWhy Is It So Difficult to Describe What Actually Goes On in the Minds of the Patient and Analyst?
Issue 5 - Psychosomatics Revisited: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives9 articlesPROLOGUEp. 377Phyllis Sloate & Eileen KohutisPsychosomatic Medicine: A Psychoanalyst's Journey Through a Somatic Worldp. 380Craig LichtmanBelieving in the Patient's Capacity to Know His Mind: A Psychoanalytic Case Study of Fibromyalgiap. 390W. Scott GriffiesThe Minefield of Emotionsp. 405Marion M. OlinerConcreteness, Metaphor, and Psychosomatic Disorders: Bridging the Gap
Issue 6 - Contemporary Perspectives on the Oedipus Complex12 articlesPROLOGUEp. 477Harriet Pappenheim & Eva Dubska PapiasviliPatterns of Love in the Four- to Six-Year-Old Period and the Dispositional Effect They Createp. 478Joseph LichtenbergThe Quality of Attachment and Oedipal Developmentp. 485Miriam SteeleBrothers, Sisters, and a Return to Realityp. 496John Munder RossWhere Has Oedipus Gone? A Turn of The Century Contemplation