Dr. Henry Lothane is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Lothane is also a psychoanalyst and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association, and an honorary member of the Polish Psychiatric Association.

In addition to English, Dr. Lothane is also fluent and practices in French, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian and Spanish. He serves as a psychiatric expert for the German Consulate in New York in evaluating restitution claims of Holocaust survivors. Dr. Lothane authored two books on the famous Schreber Case and co-authored two books on Schreber and Thomas Szasz and nearly 90 articles in different languages. His last book Sabina Spielrein: Healed and Haunted by love.

He received the Authors’ Recognition Award from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health for his 1992 book In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry; the Sigmund Freud Award from the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians; and the Thomas S. Szasz Award for his work on the Schreber Case. His latest book titled "Healed and Haunted by Love: The Untold Story of Sabina Spielrein", has been published in 2023.

The unpublished Russian diary and letters of Sabina Spielrein represent a milestone for academics, scholars, historians, and psychoanalysts whose interest in the most enigmatic woman to have pioneered psychoanalysis and developmental psychology in the first part of the 20th century has never ceased to grow after she was rediscovered in the mid-1970s. These Primary sources, which include unreleased drawings and notes, were patiently exhumed and translated by Lothane from New York to Russia and across Europe over two decades, with the collaboration of Spielrein’s grandnephew, Vladimir Shpilrain. Thoroughly presented and commented on by Lothane, this book will also fascinate a public increasingly drawn to the legacy of a feminist figure whose intimate correspondence provides an invaluable testimony from her childhood to the most ignored episodes of an extraordinary life between passions, strokes of genius, and tragedies. Sabina Spielrein was last seen with her daughters, in 1942, in a column of 27,000 Jews marched by the Nazis to be murdered in Zmiyevskaia ravine, Rostov’s Babiy Yar.

1. Present new data about the lives of Sabina Spielrein, her parents, and siblings;

2. Cite unpublished letters of Jung to Spielrein; 

3. Describe insights into relationship between Jung and Spielrein. 

Dr. Stefano Bolognini is one of the most active, prolific and well - known Italian psychoanalysts. He lives and works in Bologna, where he trained as a psychoanalyst at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. An Associate member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society since 1985, he became a Training Analyst in 1998. He has been a member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 2002 and a President of the Bologna Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Bolognini is a former President of the IPA. He published numerous articles and several books, one of them As Wind, as Wave received the prestigious Gradiva Award.

The current extension of the concept of the Unconscious to different levels, configurations and functioning of the mind is the result of decades of collective reflection on clinical practice as well as on theory. Analysts today have a broader, more refined and complex knowledge of defensive and transformative processes, and this has also led to an evolution in technique. The paper presents a combination of psychoanalytic theory and technique through two clinical cases that present complex articulations of spurious unconscious functional areas and modalities, alternately repressed and not repressed.

KEY WORDS: Central self, experiential self, integration, removal, sharing, splitting.

Recognize the need to extend the concept of the unconscious beyond the limits of the repressed unconscious .



Describe the subjective way of relating to one’s own self and to the unconscious.



Understand both initial basic functional immaturity and the dysfunction caused in later periods by post-traumatic disorganisation/de-structuring of the Ego.