title: War and Attacks on Thinking: Reflections on the Psychoanalysts’ Responses to the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine
abstract: This paper presents the author's considerations of how Russia's war against Ukraine impacted the ability to think and the capacity to empathize among psychoanalytically oriented practitioners. She first describes and discusses the observed patterns among external psychoanalytic responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Secondly, she reflects on these patterns through the prism of her own reactions to the 2014 Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine and the Crimea annexation. Lastly, she off
journal: Psychoanalytic Inquiry