Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense by psychoanalyst @zakmucha.bsky.social. #booksky #psychology

hell yeah

originally published by the Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: zakmucha.com/blog/item/29...

If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

Author Michael Zapata and I will be discussing "Trauma and American Fascism" at After-Words Books in Chicago. Thurs, 9/11 at 6:30. You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

This Friday, Aug 22nd 6PM. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/emotional-...

on the air (after Black Sabbath) talking about poetry, trauma, psychoanalysis and emotional abuse at WZRD 88.3 FM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vR...

a fine conversation with Nicole Thomas on poetry, psychoanalysis, and the new book. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5Raa... #emotionalabuse#psychoanalysis#poetry

Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- #1 New Release (for the moment) in medical child psychology... bit.ly/44ZE5zr

KIRKUS Review (Get it) :"Throughout, Mucha maintains a deeply empathetic, supportive manner informed by extensive experience and research... Anyone who’s ever dealt with abuse of this kind will find this book invaluable." Available today wherever you get your books: bit.ly/465SVGW

"Two Teachers (for Tova)" in AEOS Magazine

zakmucha.com/blog "Like any other abuse, emotional abuse is about power. Whoever can define reality has the ultimate power."

This is an amazing book. Highly recommend. #MentalHealth #Codependancy #EmotionalAbuse

reading from The Ambulatorium: www.youtube.com/shorts/tzaqT...

This Friday, June 20th-Dr. Alan Bass will discuss "The Genocide Principle" at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. You can join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825601

“The book is entirely guff-and-agenda-free. It's solid with aphorisms; every other paragraph has a quotable sentence in it… If you want a user manual for your own brain, you're gonna love this.” – A. R. Banks. www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...

"An American Ambulatorium" in The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: www.cccacommunity.com/an-american-...

Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- currently #1 new release in child development on Kindle... www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...

"There is no real difference between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. All that distinguishes one from another is the abuser’s choice of weapon." —Andrew Vachss bit.ly/4kNKZhH

“The book is entirely guff-and-agenda-free. It's solid with aphorisms; every other paragraph has a quotable sentence in it… If you want a user manual for your own brain, you're gonna love this.” – A. R. Banks. www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...

two poems from Sunday Salon Chicago: www.youtube.com/shorts/l0lRk...

This Sunday at Roscoe Books. 7 pm...

see this: www.bridgettebramlage.com/about

pre-orders available now. out on July 15th... www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab... #emotionalabuse#mentalhealth#selfdefense

Chicago mobster Kenny Eto took a bullet to the head and left the ER with two band aids: "A Dream of Joe Peschi and Kenny Eto"-- theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/04...

"An American Ambulatorium" in The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: www.cccacommunity.com/an-american-...

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis presents Peter Shabad, PhD, asking, "Is it Better to Love and Lose or Never Love at All?" on Friday, April 25th 7 PM on Zoom. Join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825586 #psychoanalysis

sign up at ccpsa.org for Don Carveth, PhD, discussing his 45 year journey through psychoanalysis on Fri, April 4th at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis #psychoanalysis

Register here for Matt Hiller's presentation on dissociation, trauma, and ketamine: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825579 #trauma#ketamine

Register here for Matt Hiller's presentation on dissociation, trauma, and ketamine: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825579 #trauma#ketamine

... coming in July

A poem published by Aeos... #poetry#noir

"Night Science" published in the Literary Underground. #poetry theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02...

From the second issue of Aeos Magazine

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis hosts Howard Levine, MD on Fri, March 7th for his presentation, "Minding the Gap". Register here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825575 #psychoanalysis

Thinking today about the best editor I ever had... @obaat.bsky.social

Coming in July -- new edition of Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense. ...this is from the intro by Dogo Barry Graham

Simone de Beauvoir wrote of Americans in her travelogue of 1947: “They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism..." zakmucha.com/blog/item/21...

Life After Ego ... goodpress.co.uk/products/lif...

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is hosting Alan Levy, PhD for his presentation, "Mourning the Never Was" and you can join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825574 #psychoanalysis

The Monster Loves His Labyrinth -- the Zen of Charles Simic (pt. 3)... w/art by Bridgette Bramlage... zakmucha.com/blog #poetry#psychoanalysis#collageart