https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Group. daily 1 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 34 (2010) through current issue Latest Articles: Group TWO Project MUSE® Group 1573-3386 0362-4021 Latest articles in Group. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983153 <p></p> In this second installment of our special series, &#x22;From the Analytic Pair to the Institutional Field,&#x22; we turn our attention to a theme both intimate and structural, deeply personal yet profoundly social: the maternal&#x2014;and the transferential, symbolic, and group-based meanings we assign to her.This issue, &#x22;The Tyranny of Motherhood: Gendered Projections and Symbolic Containment,&#x22; explores how therapists who occupy maternal positions, whether literally, symbolically, or transferentially, become the site of powerful, often contradictory projections. While these dynamics are well documented in individual psychoanalytic theory, this issue examines how they unfold, transform, and become collectively held within group ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848/image/coversmall Editor's Introduction 2026-02-19 text/html en-US Editor's Introduction 2026-02-19 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 7022 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-19 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983154 <p></p> The therapist&#39;s pregnancy in the clinical room constitutes a manifest expression of her subjectivity, as significant somatic and psychological changes occur in her. Pregnancy is an event that cannot be hidden from the patient, and, as Etchegoyen (1993) stated, &#x22;it reveals fundamental aspects of the analyst&#39;s personal life and confirms her existence as a separate and sexual subject&#x22; (p. 141). Simultaneously, it is a demanding transitional period for the therapist as she negotiates her personal and professional lives, adapts her interpersonal relationships, and creates mental space for the newborn and her new maternal role (Fallon &#x26; Brabender, 2003; Hacham-Lynch, 2014). Relevant studies support that pregnancy ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848/image/coversmall The Therapist's Pregnancy in Combined Individual and Group Therapy: A Catalyst for Exploring the Tyranny of Motherhood 2026-02-19 text/html en-US The Therapist's Pregnancy in Combined Individual and Group Therapy: A Catalyst for Exploring the Tyranny of Motherhood 2026-02-19 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 37667 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-19 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983155 <p></p> This article centers on a clinical situation that presented both personal and professional complexity: my pregnancy during the ongoing treatment of a teenage analysand. In relational psychoanalysis, where therapeutic action arises through mutual influence, intersubjectivity, and the co-construction of meaning, the therapist&#39;s subjectivity is never absent, but it is rarely as visible, embodied, or inevitable as it becomes during pregnancy.Bass (2024) emphasized that mutual recognition and embodied presence are central to therapeutic action, especially when disruptions, such as pregnancy, redefine the frame. &#x3A4;he pregnant therapist becomes a living symbol within the analytic field, one that cannot be abstracted or ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848/image/coversmall The Therapist's Pregnancy: Intruder or Liberator? Exploring Division and Reconciliation in the Therapeutic Relationship 2026-02-19 text/html en-US The Therapist's Pregnancy: Intruder or Liberator? Exploring Division and Reconciliation in the Therapeutic Relationship 2026-02-19 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 28508 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-19 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983156 <p></p> Fairy tales often end with &#x22;And they lived happily ever after,&#x22; offering closure and peace despite the challenges the characters faced. Similarly, when working with children and adolescents in therapy, we may wish for an ending that feels neat and healing. This hope stems from the belief that children deserve a safe, protected space to integrate their emotional, physical, and cognitive selves (West, 1996).However, real therapeutic endings are often more complex. Children don&#39;t always get to choose when or how their journeys conclude. Decisions are often made by adults&#x2014;parents, schools, or institutions&#x2014;and are sometimes driven by anxiety, fatigue, or practical concerns, often without fully including the child. Even ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848/image/coversmall Toward an Egalitarian Ending in Relational Psychoanalytic Play Therapy 2026-02-19 text/html en-US Toward an Egalitarian Ending in Relational Psychoanalytic Play Therapy 2026-02-19 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 34966 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-19 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157 <p></p> In relational psychoanalysis, freedom is defined not as the absence of inner conflict but rather as the capacity to hold and transform the internalized voices of others. The superego is traditionally seen as a harsh internal authority. The balance between the ego and the superego is crucial for healthy psychological functioning, and if the superego is too strong or too weak, it can lead to maladaptive behaviors or emotional distress (Weiss, 2020). However, in relational psychoanalysis, it has been reimagined by theorists like Jessica Benjamin (2014) as a structure composed of relational residues&#x2014;voices and postures that emerge from early interpersonal experiences. If we understand dyadic therapy as a large group ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983157">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/848/image/coversmall Hostage in Projective Identification: Will Egalitarian Reframing Survive an Internalized Tyrannical Mother? 2026-02-19 text/html en-US Hostage in Projective Identification: Will Egalitarian Reframing Survive an Internalized Tyrannical Mother? 2026-02-19 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 27753 2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-19