Editorial Notes
On Freedom and Connection
Our Spring 2025 issue theme invites reflecting “On Freedom.” In this issue, our contributors grappled with the subtleties around what it means to be free or no
Editorial Notes
Freedom is part of us
In the last few years we faced the fear of dying due to the Covid virus. We lived in a state of uncertainty. We changed our clinical practice from the office to Zoom.
President’s Remarks
On Freedom
While writing the paper Who is Free to Free Associate: Psychoanalysis and Social Ethics (2025), I became interested in exploring freedom and its related ethical dimensions–not as a possession or endpoint but as a kind of ongoing, relational endeavor.
PINC Corner
Memorial for Susan Sands
Dear PINC Members,I am writing to share the sad news that Susan Sands passed just a couple of weeks ago.
Art
PINC Corner
Emanuel Windholz: My Father & One of the Founding Fathers of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco
This is the story of a 33-year-old Jewish psychoanalyst who had to flee his homeland, leaving behind his family, friends, and patients.
PINC Corner
Michael Windholz Remembrance
I first met Michael when we had offices on the same corridor at Langley Porter. I think it was 1979, and I introduced myself since he seemed like one of the good, cool guys, and he was gracious whenever I bummed cigarettes from him.
PINC Corner
Michael Windholz Remembrance
Michael Windholz, a founding member of PINC, died on December 10th in the company of his family, including our colleague, his wife Sandra Salatich, and his daughters Lily and Eleanor.
PINC Corner
Personal Freedom Amidst Societal Limits: the Role of Creativity
In a wonderful seminar with Tamara Fischmann entitled, “How Dreams May Be an Indicator of Psychotherapeutic Change and Memory Reconsolidation”, hosted by Maggie Zellner, Dr. Fischmann described how effective therapeutic interventions are illustrated in dreams.
Essay
We Are Still Here: Music, Memory, and the Sound of Colonial Defiance in Bad Bunny’s DtMF
In the Caribbean lies an island once known as Borikén. A rich port, it became the target of European invaders whose relentless greed and violence brought about genocide, disease, and destruction.
Poetry
Art
I am not a ghost
I’m Not a Ghost is a conceptual photographic series created in collaboration with the nonbinary artist and glassmaker Aullar Mateo.
Poetry
Essay
The Phone on the Wall
The phone rings downstairs. You’re roused from a dreamless sleep with a splitting headache.
Essay
Far Beyond the Family: We are children of a thousand men
“He continued on the unfathomable that children are”
Poetry
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