To Face the World and to Face Each Other: A Tribute to Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Abstract

The Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives during the Covid era reflects on her time in the world of analytic journals as the outside world was changing, noticing an editorial tendency to retract and become more insular during traumatic times. She urges psychoanalysts and others among us who are involved in the vital task of curating what psychoanalytic literature is ultimately published to intentionally move past the bounds of their inner circles to engage more fully with those outside, to move past known worlds, and to take up the mantle of engagement with grand themes of history and trauma in expanded psychoanalytic communities and with the world at large.

Keywords:

• Covid
• history
• psychoanalytic writing
• relational psychoanalysis
• witnessing

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Rachel Sopher

Rachel Sopher, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor, National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) Training Institute; Faculty and Supervisor, National Training Program for NIP; and Faculty, Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is a former Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and is co-Editor, with Amy Schwartz-Cooney, of the collection Vitalization in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021). She maintains a private practice in New York City.