Special Issue on Community Mental Health and Applied Psychoanalysis

The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalysis special issue on Community Mental Health and Applied Psychoanalysis, edited by Ghislaine Boulanger and Larry Rosenberg, is available to read for free for three months. Click here to read the issue.

Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic

The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies special issue on the COVID-19 pandemic comprises articles from across the globe, encompassing psychoanalytic perspectives from Europe, Asia and North and South America. Click here to read the issue for free. The issue features Ira Brenner’s new paper: ‘Disinformation, disease, and Donald Trump’.

New Call for Papers

The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies invites submissions of original research papers, review articles, short communications, editorials, and special sections headed by psychoanalytic and other scholars. We particularly welcome papers related to social problems such as climate change, racism, and pandemics.  Click here to read the full Call for Papers.

Special Issue - Settler Colonialism: The Palestinian/Israeli Case

This special issue brings together two aspects of the politics of Palestine/Israel: first, it explores the experience of the Palestinian people as one partner to a settler colonial relationship; and second, it assesses the response made by the psychoanalytic community to this experience, against the measure of the profession’s own ethical values. We feel that this issue is of particular importance in the light of the U.S. president’s so-called ‘Peace Plan’ which, by underlining the disappearance of the ‘two-state solution’ as a path forward, challenges us to find new alternatives to a situation that already closely resembles that of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The task is to employ psychoanalytic thinking, and other tools available to us, to grasp the socio‐political‐ideological and historical context, and to collectively consider how we might contribute to a resolution of the colonizer-colonized relationship in a way that enhances the peace and security of both Jewish Israeli and Palestinian national communities.  

The full special issue can be read here.

Special Issue: Climate Change and the Human Factor

Our June 2019 special issue presents scientific facts about climate change and what we can expect in the future, meteorological facts about the devastating superstorms we are currently experiencing, and psychoanalytically informed wisdom about the human condition. We hope that this modest contribution will foster a slightly better integration of external reality with psychical reality in the service of a healthier adaption to our environment.

The Special Issue can be accessed here.

Special Issue: Our Issue on Refugees

It is the case the world over, that many refugees need “someone to talk to” as we know from our everyday work in the first reception institution “Michaelisdorf” in Germany. And as is the case everywhere, it is difficult to find volunteers and even professionals who can bear to listen to what refugees like Mr B. had gone through, why he had left his home country, had become a refugee. Mr B. was sent to my (LB) weekly consultation by the medical team because he was in a dreadful physical and psychological condition. The medical doctor had discovered scars all over his body. Mr B. had been tortured by the secret service in his country and had to witness how his father and two brothers were killed in a brutal way. “It is a miracle that I survived—the only one of my family ….” he finally said. In this volume, some groups of psychoanalytical researchers and clinicians discuss their experiences working with traumatized refugees and migrants... Read the full editorial by Marianne Leuzinger‐Bohleber & Henri Parens here.

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