Issue 126 articlesThe Problem of Physical Punishment and Its Persistence: The Potential Roles of PsychoanalysisThe Problem of Physical Punishment and Its Persistence: The Potential Roles of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Sectionp. 1Paul C. HolingerWhy Do Parents Hit Their Children? From Cultural to Unconscious Determinantsp. 10George W. HoldenAn Eriksonian Perspective on Physical Punishment and Its Impacts on Mental Healthp. 30Joan E. Durrant & R. EnsomHelping Parents Spare the Rod: Addressing Their Unbearable Emotionsp. 46Leon Hoffman & Tracy A. ProutWhy Won’t They Learn: Unconscious Underpinnngs of Corporal Punishmentp. 62Jack Novick & Kerry Kelly NovickSocial and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Use of Physical Punishment among Low-Income African-Americansp. 73C. Jama AdamsThe Legal Framework Governing Corporal Punishmentp. 91Clare HuntingtonWhy Can’t We See It?p. 96Neal SpiraMarianne Kris Memorial LectureThe Developmental Object and Therapeutic Actionp. 109Carla NeelyThe Child Analyst at WorkA Suicidal Adolescent: The Rocky Path from Physical Pain to Psychological Awarenessp. 119Jacqueline LangleyThe Courage to Grow: Creative Transformation in Patient and Child Analystp. 128Jack NovickScars That Heal and Scars That Don’t Heal: Description of a Psychoanalytic Treatment Across Different Ages and Developmental StagesPsychoanalysis and Developmental Transitions: An Introduction to the Panelp. 131E. Kirsten DahlA Child Analysis from Childhood into Adolescence: Elements of Therapeutic Action at Different Developmental Stagesp. 133Sydney AndersonDiscussion of Dr. Anderson’s Case with a Focus on Transference and Countertransferencep. 146Stanley J. LeikenDiscussion of Dr. Anderson’s Case with a Focus on the Child’s Use of the Analyst at Different Developmental Stagesp. 151Donald RosenblittClinical ContributionTreatment of a Dying Childp. 158Debra A. KatzFilm EssayA Separation: Breaking Up Is Hard to Dop. 172Judith A. YanofTurning Points in Adolescent PsychoanalysisTurning Points in Adolescent Analysis: An Introduction to the Sectionp. 182Judith Fingert ChusedResisting the Call of the Future: Turning Points in an Adolescent Analysisp. 187Claudia LamentHelping the Meeting to Begin: A Discussion of Claudia Lament’s Paper, “Turning Points in Child Analysis”p. 199Anne AlvarezTurning Points in Adolescent Psychoanalysis and the Centrality of Transference Interpretation: A Discussion of Dr. Lament’s Case of Gracep. 204Calvern E. Narcisi“When a Patient Is Unable to Work in the Transference”: Dr. Lament’s ResponseThe Imagined Infant: The First Anne Marie Sandler ColloquiumThe Imagined Infant: An Introduction to the Sectionp. 216Linda MayesThe Portable Psychoanalytic Frame: Evenly Suspended Attention, Bick’s Method of Infant Observation and Its [Unexpected] Application by an Observer in a Day Carep. 220Talia HatzorAbsolute Hospitality and the Imagined Babyp. 230Joan Raphael-LeffMeeting a Brilliant but Quirky Mind: Insights Offered by Infant Researchp. 240Alexandra Murray Harrison