From Fragmented Bodies to Integrated Thoughts

The authors consider a therapeutic role for action, bodily life and sensation in the emergence of integrative speech.

Cutting Families Apart at the Border, We Find Ourselves...

González gives a brutal and longstanding context for the current American administration's fracturing and destructive attacks on families and on children.

Using Hate in the Countertransference to Mend the Fragments: A Sampling of a Patient's Treatment

I work largely with 'the unanalyzable' patients whose fragmented internal state and presentation puts them in danger of a completely disintegrated life.

The Split Esplanade: A Nightmare of Citizenship

Politics appear in the psychoanalytic office in the unspoken elements of our traumatic history, updated in interpersonal, social & institutional relationships through the non-symbolization of events.

Putting Together the Fragments to Being Alone

We will never recover the whole of what we lost at the moment of birth – but what we can piece together afterwards, if we are sufficiently helped, will accompany us, in our solitude, to the end.

Where Are You Speaking From?

Using poetry to illustrate her concepts, Dr. Nilofer Kaul takes a look at different stances to a breakdown and examines relationships to pain and to internal objects.

The Death of the "Hand": Terror, Narcissistic Fragility, and Psychosomatic Breakdown

50 years after “The Eternaut,” Oesterheld’s classic comic, the author explores the “terror gland,” which inhibits resistance, becomes a generalized response and signals psychosomatic fear avoidance.