Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is for the meek.

Of course, we can all fall prey, in the heightened intensity of that which we call intimacy, to an unlinking of thought from meaning, a momentary lapse in our ability to remain grounded in the truth of the present. Sure, we may call upon a manualized…

Toward a Social Justice Therapy: Let’s Keep Talking

How psychotherapy can help dismantle oppression

I often tell patients- and have been told myself- that the issues we come in to work on in therapy have taken years, sometimes decades, and sometimes generations to…

Psychoanalysis Should Join the Slow Movement as Slow Therapy

The Road to Psychoanalysis Runs Through Jerusalem

Let’s liberate Palestine with Psychoanalysis.

This is the “one-liner” that I so passionately wanted to blurt out when I was last an audience member listening to psychoanalytic manifestos. We were invited to share our…

ANALYSTS READ THIS:

How can I tell you? How can I convince you, my psychoanalyst brothers and sisters, that you are in danger?

Everyday that you wake and assume your seat behind the couch, listening with the third ear, you are committing a rebellious act. You, as an alive and functioning…

Breaking The Spell of Shame and The Freedom To Live Life

Peter Shabad, Ph.D.
Northwestern University Medical School

On a number of occasions I have told a story that is emblematic of my upbringing. When I was five years old, I had a…

The Healing of Psychiatry

Robert A. Berezin, MD

Psychiatry is fast approaching a death spiral which we as a society may not be able to recover from.

In many residencies, psychotherapy is not even being taught. Many psychotherapists of all professions have been intimidated by…

A Manifesto on Manifestos

an introduction to our new publication

Where silent infantile sexuality was, democracy shall be: A Psychoanalytic Manifesto

Psychoanalysis was founded to discover truths of human nature and to heal by means of truthful discourse. Sigmund Freud, after experimenting with hypnosis, began working instead in the…