Volume 5: Spring 2011

Editors’ Intro

“The secret of the psychoanalytic method is the very engagement of a discourse wherein the fixity and certainty of any proferred epistemic configuration are dislodged… what psychoanalysis offers, the subject is thus its discourse as Otherwise.”

Barratt, B. (1993) Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse: Knowing and Being Since Freud’s Psychology. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore (p. 42).

The co-editors and the editorial board welcome you to the fifth issue of Other/Wise. Our editorial board members are Susan Flynn, Larry Green, Montana Katz, Steve Kuchuck, Rachel Newcombe, Josie Oppenheim, Stuart Perlman, Katherine Schwarzenbach, Judy Vida, and Tom Wagner.

Other/Wise will continue to offer our two innovative sections, “Entering the Consulting Room”, featuring articles that focus on clinical material, and “Autobiographical Discoveries: Our Psyches, Our Selves”, featuring articles that focus on the personal journey.

Other/Wise continues to feature creative work such as short stories, poetry, art work, and music that illuminate internal unconscious process or any aspect of the human condition that engages us from a depth perspective. We are delighted to include in this issue for the first time a play script.

We believe that learning is a reciprocal pleasure, and invite our readers to participate in our ongoing dialogue by using the feature that allows you to respond to everything published in each issue. Learn, enjoy, join in the conversation!

Articles, art work, poetry, short stories, play scripts, music with lyrics should be submitted electronically to Richard Raubolt, r.raubolt@gmail.com, and Merle Molofsky,
mmpsya@mindspring.com.

Richard Raubolt, Founding Editor
Merle Molofsky, Co-Editor

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Entering the Consulting Room:

When Resistance is Recognized as Resilience (Definitely Not the Same Old Song and Dance)
by Johanna Cuevas, Ph.D.

Autobiographical Discoveries:

Straddling Two Worlds: The writer and the psychoanalytic psychotherapist
by Elisabeth Hanscombe
Rhythms of Psychoanalysis and Counterpoints of Therapeutic Spontaneity
by John T. Sloma
Heterosexuality- The Love that Dare not Speak Its Name
by Art Pomponio

Articles:

Pictogram
by Oren Gozlan
Love Letters
by Michael Larivière

Play Script:

Clytemnestra’s Last Day
by S. Montana Katz

Poems:

Little Mary Sunshine
by Claudia Bader
Therapy
by Rachel Jennings
Mortified
by Rachel Jennings
Bedroom Door
by Vanessa Bezbrozh

Short Stories:

The Lines
by Stephen Michaels
Flying Blind
by Elizabeth Singer

Contributors:

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Encountering ideas in ways other than expected allows us to see things we might otherwise overlook and adds to wisdom. To expand beyond our conferences, IFPE created Other/Wise, an unconventional online journal, in our continual quest to understand the human condition––including reflections on our own condition. Our journal pursues broadening the scope of psychoanalysis with passion, creativity and desire, bringing us into fearless interface with territories otherwise unexplored or unspoken.

Each issue of Other/Wise is comprised of a sampling of papers that began as presentations in the safe space of IFPE’s most recent conference. Such presentations often include personal, intimate, creative and autobiographical material. At Other/Wise, we strive to have editorial dialogue with authors that reflects the IFPE ethos throughout the publication process, to convey the meaningful essence while respectfully helping to prepare each paper, to the highest standard, for a broader readership.

Other/Wise invites all IFPE conference presenters to contribute work that is reflective of their presentations, and by the nature of an IFPE conference, that fosters a continuation of the dialogue that began at our conference.

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