This newsletter reports on phenomena at the intersection of linguistics and psychoanalysis and psychiatry. This issue consists of the following articles: (1) an editorial entitled "Idioms, How We Love/Have You!", on the possible reasons behind the use of idioms; (2) "The Last Renaissance (Language in a Drug Rehabilitation Community)," by Harold Amers, on the adaptive functions of language use in the transition from narcotics addiction to a drug-free life; (3) "The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber," by Robert N. Ross, describing research on ways of analyzing semantic structures underlying the speech of patients undergoing psychotherapy; (4) "Words and Things," by Celio Gracia, on the relationship between form and content; and (5) "The Possibility Principle in Semantics," by Elaine Chaika, on generative grammar and semantics. The articles are followed by News Notes. (AM)