How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first
time? When this is the question posed by an empirical research project, it sets a …

Murdered Father, Dead Father: Revisiting the Oedipus Complex examines the progressive
construction of the notion of paternal function and its central relevance in psychoanalysis …

What is the role of cultural humility in psychoanalytic supervision? In this article, we address
that question. While culture has been recognized as central to supervision practice (eg …

Although recognized as highly crucial to supervision practice (eg, Tummala-Narra, 2004),
culture has been addressed minimally in the psychoanalytic supervision literature. Calls to …

This paper examines the Akedah, the biblical narrative of the Binding of Isaac, and suggests
that this story may be interpreted as inaugurating paternal function and thirdness. It marks …

Mental health professionals generally lack competency for addressing religion and
spirituality in counseling settings. The spiritual competencies of the Association for Spiritual …

This chapter addresses areas of theoretical and clinical ambiguity in everyday practice that
sometimes contribute to sexual boundary violations. The latter involve an act of erasure …

This article considers the phenomenon of treatment resistance as primarily resulting from the
eclipse of the “Third.” The notion of the Third is examined across a range of psychoanalytic …

Using data from clinical psychoanalytic research on lesbian couples undertaking Artificial
Insemination by Donor (AID), this article explores the position of the third as it appears in the …

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced
contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than …