Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2184627
Jonathan Kurfirst
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2184626
S. Buechler
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2246003
Cassandra Neyenesch
AbstractThe author reflects on an experience with a young Laotian woman seeking an abortion in West Philadelphia in 1991. The experience led her to reflect on her mother’s abortion much earlier, following the mother’s rape.Keywords: abortionabortion storiesabortion clinicrapePhiladelphia 1991 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Station 11 is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction miniseries that ran for 10 episodes on HBO MAX about an devastating flu epidemic that wipes out humanity (see Wikepedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven_(miniseries)).2 See: Escalante-De-Mattei, S. (2022, May 9). Artists and activists banded together to tell abortion stores at an impassioned New York event. Art News. Accessed from: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/abortion-stories-cassandra-neyenesch-lena-chen-1234628089/ See also: https://ourabortionstories.com.Additional informationNotes on contributorsCassandra NeyeneschCassandra Neyenesch, B.A., is a Brooklyn, NY-based writer and curator. Anticipating the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she organized the first Abortion Stories: An Interactive Art Festival with psychologist Carolina Franco, which took place on May 6–8, 2022. Since then, Abortion Stories has facilitated storytelling events at public demonstrations and art shows in collaboration with Planned Parenthood, the Brooklyn Museum, Lump Projects, and Ross-Sutton Gallery. Her reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, the Huffington Post, Latino Rebel, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America. She is the author of the forthcoming novel Perdita.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2258062
Rosemary H. Balsam
AbstractA deprivation of women’s reproductive rights has occurred by the right-wing turn in recent United States’ politics. Looking at the details of Roe v. Wade, (1973), and Dobbs (2022), the author notes the limited legal, but predominantly emotional, thinking in the Supreme Court’s opinions that led to the overturn. The contemporary legal coup is seen here as yet another age-old attempt to control the female body’s reproductive powers and capacities. Using an example, the author notes the unconscious male fear of female’s bodily self-governance that inhibits any empathy for “the other.” She also reflects on a widespread archaic unconscious horror – and thus hostility – toward the female qua female, akin to Kristeva’s description of “the abject,” which the author likens to the raw products of an aborted conception. Such graphic unconscious reactions seem to skew the Law, which here fails to uphold the logic of equal status among adult humans.Keywords: Roe v. Wade (1973)Dobbs (2022)misogynymale fear of femalesfemale autonomyarchaic female body horrors“the abject” Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Pender, a psychoanalyst, was the 2021 president of the American Psychiatric Association, and Chair of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women in the United Nations.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRosemary H. BalsamRosemary H. Balsam F.R.C.Psych (Lond), M.R. C. P. (Edin), (originally from Belfast, N. Ireland), is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School; staff psychiatrist in the Yale Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Conn. Her special interests are female gender developments; young adulthoods; the body in psychic life; the work of Hans Loewald. She is on the editorial boards of PQ and American Imago. Among her honors in 2018, she received the Sigourney Award,—the first female awardee in the United States). Her most recent book is: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012, Routledge) and she is co-editing 2 books on Hans Loewald’s work, at present.
摘要近年来，美国政治右倾化导致女性生育权被剥夺。回顾罗伊诉韦德案(1973)和多布斯案(2022)的细节，作者注意到最高法院的意见中有限的法律思维，但主要是情感思维，导致了推翻。在这里，当代的法律政变被视为另一种古老的控制女性身体生殖能力和能力的尝试。作者举了一个例子，指出男性对女性身体自我管理的无意识恐惧抑制了对“他者”的同情。她还反思了一种普遍存在的、古老的、无意识的对女性的恐惧——以及因此而产生的敌意——对女性本身的恐惧，类似于克里斯蒂娃对“下等人”的描述，作者将其比作流产的原始产物。这种形象的无意识反应似乎扭曲了法律，在这里，法律未能维护成年人平等地位的逻辑。关键词:Roe v. Wade (1973)Dobbs(2022)厌女症男性对女性的恐惧女性自主过时的女性身体恐惧“卑鄙的”披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1彭德是一名精神分析学家，曾担任美国精神病学协会2021年主席，以及联合国妇女地位非政府组织委员会主席。作者简介:rosemary H. Balsam F.R.C.Psych (Lond)， m.r.c.p. (Edin)，(来自北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特)，耶鲁大学医学院精神病学临床副教授;耶鲁大学学生心理健康与咨询系的精神科医生，康涅狄格州纽黑文西部新英格兰精神分析研究所的培训和监督分析师。她的特别兴趣是女性性别发展;年轻的成年;精神生活中的身体;汉斯·洛瓦尔德的作品她是《PQ》和《美国形象》的编委会成员。2018年，她获得了西格尼奖(Sigourney Award)，这是美国第一位获得该奖项的女性。她最近的一本书是《精神分析中的女性身体》(2012年，劳特利奇出版)，目前她正在与人合编两本关于汉斯·洛瓦尔德作品的书。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2253519
Cynthia Chalker
AbstractThis author contends that while the Dobbs decision is certainly about abortion, it is also about women’s health in general and, more specifically and dire, Black women and their reproductive health. This article highlights how limiting access to abortion has led to the closing of centers for women’s reproductive health and the loss of preventative care. Using vignettes from her clinical practice, the author speaks to the fears and concerns of her patients of color as they make decisions concerning their health and family plans for the future. Lastly, the author offers the reader insight into how her therapeutic practice seeks to provide a space for understanding, and a quiet place in which patients can lay down their burdens long enough to catch their breath. This encourages insight and can remind us of how to reengage with the world from a stronger and more powerful place.Keywords: Dobbs v. JacksonBlackwomen of colormedical racismtherapy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authorAdditional informationNotes on contributorsCynthia ChalkerCynthia Chalker, MSS, LCSW, is a Black queer-identified clinical social worker and psychoanalyst who lives and works in New York City. Her research interests include the intersection of race, culture, and identity in psychoanalysis. She is teaching faculty at National Institutes for the Psychotherapies and Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and a guest presenter around the country and abroad. Cynthia’s writing can be found in various psychoanalytic journals including Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues, where she is an Associate Editor. Her most recent published work, “He’s my Brother,” can be found in the book, Inhabiting Implication in Racial Oppression and in Relational Psychoanalysis, published in 2023 by Routledge.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2249755
Helena Vissing
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelena VissingHelena Vissing, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Northern California.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2253518
Meredith Darcy
The Dobbs decision and the U.S. abortion ban, or forced birth, is a clear human rights violation. With zero access to safe abortion, a pregnant person must either stay pregnant and give birth to a child they may not want, or put the child up for adoption. This will disproportionately affect already marginalized people and communities managing systemic racism. And it is forcing pregnant people with the life-changing responsibility of caring for all unwanted, unplanned children—whether they want to or not. How will this affect the life and trajectory of the person giving birth? How will the unaborted infant receive the necessary love and attention to grow and thrive? While legislation can impose forced birth, it cannot enforce the conditions of love and care. The Supreme Court majority’s ideal or fantasy of the selfless mother is a disembodied dissociated version of motherhood– an image of a mother–living unwittingly in the shadows of cultural expectation and intergenerational patterns of maternal silence. With the Dobbs decision, the Supreme Court has enshrined the idealized fantasy of the selfless mother into law.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2241314
Claire Basescu
AbstractThis article combines literary, scholarly, and clinical genres to explore various aspects of the abortion experience.Keywords: pregnancyabortionsubjectivityself-determinationdissociationmourning Additional informationNotes on contributorsClaire BasescuClaire Basescu, Ph.D., is Faculty and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, and in private practice in New York City. She is the author of articles that combine scholarly, clinical, and creative writing on such topics as divorce, parenthood, and therapy, particularly the experience of the therapist.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2023.2247809
Jill Gentile
AbstractThe author suggests reading the forces culminating in the Dobbs’ decision and the dismantling of Roe v. Wade as the expression of an “abortion taboo,” which represents patriarchy’s refusal to concede to—and its failure to achieve—the incest taboo. The incest taboo, in turn, reflects a weakened paternal law, the failure of which pivots on an archaic and pervasive repudiation of the non-unitary feminine. The abortion taboo performs the labor of annulling (sexed/feminine) difference, on the manifest level advocating reproduction and the life of the unborn, while—latently—insisting on the reproduction of the (White-hetero-masculinist) same, thus reaffirming incestuous relations and their frozen temporality. This essay highlights the signifying and politically liberatory potential of the vaginal, which introduces uncanny contradiction and is disruptive of patriarchal sameness, as well as bearing accountability to a law beyond the paternal: feminine law.Keywords: abortionincest taboopaternal lawfeminine lawvaginalfetus AcknowledgmentsThe author expresses her gratitude to Meredith Darcy for shepherding this essay, and to Helena Vissing and Ali Shames Dawson, for their generous and substantive editorial contributions.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 In the case of a recently advanced “Prenatal Equal Protection Act” in South Carolina, all accomplices who “conspire” for an abortion would be equally liable of homicide (Zivot, Citation2023).Additional informationNotes on contributorsJill GentileJill Gentile, Ph.D., is clinical adjunct associate professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, associate editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and the author of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, with Michael Macrone (Karnac, 2016). She received the 2017 Gradiva Award for her essay “What is special about speech?” and the 2020 Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) prize for “Time may change us: The strange temporalities, novel paradoxes, and democratic imaginaries of a pandemic.” She practices in New York City and hosts online clinical study groups.
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