Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251368898
Tina Thu-Ha Nguyen
{"title":"Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Book Review: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. By VuongOcean. New York: Penguin, 2019, 256 pp., $18.00 paperback.","authors":"Tina Thu-Ha Nguyen","doi":"10.1177/00030651251368898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251368898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365611
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
The lack of mentalization of Asian American experiences has contributed to a collapsing of subjectivity within psychoanalysis and broader society. Racism directed against Asian Americans is often minimized or dismissed. This paper explores psychoanalytic perspectives on the invisibility, dissociation, and repression of Asian American experiences, the problem of homogenization, and the discomfort with multiplicity within the United States. Drawing on clinical vignettes and research findings, the author describes how subjectivity is collapsed and reclaimed, with an emphasis on the experiences of Indian Americans.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251368893
Kenji C. Miyamoto
{"title":"Book Review: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans Book Review: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. By EngDavid L.HanShinhee. Duke University Press, 2019, 233 pp., $26.95 paperback.","authors":"Kenji C. Miyamoto","doi":"10.1177/00030651251368893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251368893","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145599774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251369544
Sien Rivera
How might one begin to heal the transgenerational wounds of colonization in psychoanalysis or psychotherapy? Legacies of coloniality—structures of power, labor, and subjugation—continue to cause psychic harm, particularly at the intersections of gendered and racialized bodies. In the Euro-American imagination, the flesh of the feminine Asiatic body in particular becomes the site for all manner of constructions, including but not limited to inorganic objectification: commodities to be possessed, repulsed, or destroyed. This article seeks to apply Anne Anlin Cheng’s concept of ornamentalism to create a path toward healing the pain of colonial objectification by complicating the categories of human and object themselves. It does so by proposing a decolonial theory of magic that allows for transfiguration to occur, illustrating these concepts with a clinical vignette of a transfeminine Asian American therapist and a transfeminine Asian American patient.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365610
Gurmeet S. Kanwal
This essay explores the experiential nature of identity through a social, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and personal lens. Using reflections on racial, ethnic, and cultural categorization—particularly the tension between “Asian” and “South Asian” identities—the author examines how identity functions as both an internal construction and a reaction to external social mirrors. Drawing from ideas related to embodied cognition, relational psychoanalysis, and existential issues, the paper argues that identity is neither fixed nor merely socially imposed but is dynamically created through lived experience. The essay also considers the emotional stakes of identity loss, the role of racialized and ethnicized experience in fragmenting selfhood, and the fragile longing for continuity in a world of shifting categories.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1177/00030651251365871
Joseph S. Reynoso
There is an idea misattributed to Freud that a certain “race” (e.g., the Irish) cannot be analyzed. One of the problems of this statement is its particularity. Thinking a certain race cannot be analyzed not only accepts the perniciousness of categorical racial difference, but also overlooks a more central idea Freud investigated in clinical work: that an unconscious antagonism inherent to subjectivity is the motivation and resistance to know oneself. This is the premise of this paper, which illustrates samples of Filipino American experiences in the psychoanalytic consulting room. Several vignettes are presented, in which fantasies of the author’s identity are conjured to facilitate and hinder the analysis. The intrapsychic, interpersonal and sociohistorical conflicts featured in these cases reflect not only how the Philippines can be positioned in American and Asian imaginations, but also how investments in the identities of self and other reveal how we relate to our constitutive lack. It finally reflects on the jouissance (enjoyment) taken in identity’s rewards, exclusions and impossibility.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-24DOI: 10.1177/00030651251393603
Katrin J. Haller
{"title":"Book Review: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health Book Review: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health. Edited by Ronald Britton and Aleksandra Novakovic . New York: Routledge, 2024, 222 pp., $35.96 paperback.","authors":"Katrin J. Haller","doi":"10.1177/00030651251393603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251393603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145583191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-23DOI: 10.1177/00030651251395007
Denia Barrett
{"title":"Book Review: The Women of Anna Freud’s War Nurseries: Their Lives and Work Book Review: The Women of Anna Freud’s War Nurseries: Their Lives and Work. By Christiane Ludwig-Körner . London: Routledge, 2024, 222 pp., $34.39 paperback. (Original work published in German in 2022)","authors":"Denia Barrett","doi":"10.1177/00030651251395007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251395007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-23DOI: 10.1177/00030651251394280
Susan McNamara
{"title":"Why I Write: Honey Ham","authors":"Susan McNamara","doi":"10.1177/00030651251394280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251394280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47403,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1177/00030651251389892
Mojtaba Elhami Athar
In this article, the author proposes a theoretical framework for examining the psychopathy construct within the context of extremist groups. Drawing from an integrative perspective that bridges psychoanalytic theory with an empirically grounded model of psychopathy, the author explores the interplay between the psychopathic features of leaders and followers in the development and maintenance of extremist groups. The author also elucidates the group-level dynamics that predispose these collectives to engage in extreme violence, sometimes paralleling the atrocities committed by notorious psychopathic murderers. To illustrate the proposed theoretical framework, the author examines the case of ISIS as a representative example of a psychopathic group. Furthermore, the author discusses the proposed framework in relation to clinical observations and empirical findings and examines its implications for the conceptualization and etiology of psychopathic personality. Finally, the author outlines strategies for preventing and mitigating the emergence of psychopathic groups.
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