Freud’s famous, “Remembering, repeating and working through” is still at the center of psychoanalytic treatment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us this SAT AUG 2 for our next Connections and Conversations event with Mark Solms: “Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective.” August 2 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST Register for this FREE event here: www.psychoanalyticinquiry.com/event/connec...

"The history of science ... is replete with instances in which an initially liberating conceptualization, once institutionalized, becomes a barrier to progress." (L. Eisenberg, 1962)

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

"Damned if I Do: Gay Men and the Wounds of Conversion Therapy." New paper from Nick Santo now avail OPEN ACCESS here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (+)

All hands on deck! "The Senate may try to vote as soon as the end of next week! We need to tell them to take Medicaid cuts out of the budget reconciliation bill. We need to tell the Senate: No cuts to Medicaid." By @autisticadvocacy.org, with contact guidelines: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/06/tell...

"Who knows what? Lived experience, experiential knowledge and epistemic injustice in mental health conference" is starting! www.ru.nl/en/about-u... lots of interesting papers on the programme today #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky

Should we abolish the Psychoanalytic Institute? open.substack.com/pub/psychoan... @carterjcarter.bsky.social @drsinclair.bsky.social

New from Jill Gentile: "Leveraging psychoanalytic, and especially, Winnicottian theory, this essay explores the paradoxical role of hate speech: how it can perpetuate oppression but also act as a political force pressing for equality.." Full text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I began hearing voices external to myself in 1983 and was hospitalized twice between Halloween night 1983 and early February 1984." So begins Claire Bien's auto-ethnographic account from our upcoming issue, "Madness Revisited: A 360 degree perspective." @awaisaftab.bsky.social 👇

Barry Magid, psychoanalyst and Zen master (& author of Ordinary Mind & Nothing is Hidden) reviews two new books on the Self: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Thought is not abstract. It's all physical." - George Lakoff The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_G...

Revisiting Madness from a 360 degree perspective. Join us for a FREE Connections & Conversations zoom event. When? SUN MAY 18 9am-1030am Pacific Standard Time. Register here: www.psychoanalyticinquiry @awaisaftab.bsky.social

The WIlliam Alanson White Institute presents: How is Madness Embodied in Psychoanalysis? wawhite.org/event/how-is... SATURDAY, MAY 17th Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern Discussants: Claire Bien, Louis Sass, Daniel Posner & Vincent Stephen. Moderators: Doris Brothers & Jon Slevoldt.

How do we actually *think* about politics? George Lakoff in conversation with Robert Reich www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcy8...

“Perspective is one of the component parts of reality. Far from being a disturbance of its fabric, it is its organizing element.” ​​​​​​​--José Ortega y Gasset

Psychoanalytic Inquiry & Connections & Conversations presents: "Encountering the Other Here and There: Trauma and Healing in Israel-Palestine." live (free) via zoom: SUN April 27 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST Registration and Event Description link: www.psychoanalyticinquiry.com/event/encoun...

New substack post: A dream dialogue (or a dialogue on dreams) between Daniel Goldin and Gabriela Mann. psychoanalyticinquiryjournal.substack.com/p/dreaming-i...

A rich and remarkable philosophical book by Adrian Kind ( @philpsy.bsky.social ) on the nature of psychiatric diagnostic reasoning, in which he presents and defends a model-based reasoning account. Will have more to say soon!

Going Beneath The Surface: What People Want From Therapy--by Linda Michaels of PsiAN.org Free video seminar now available from our Connections and Conversations series: vimeo.com/1014913845

Nové číslo Psychoanalytic Inquiry (@psyinq.bsky.social) věnované Sidney Blattovi, člověku který popsal (a empiricky zkoumal) různé druhy depresivního prožívání a jejich vztah k osobnosti člověka. 👌https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07351690.2025.2451006

"Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years to the questions we have put to it." (Freud, 1920)

Free/Decentralized Learning Experience! April 12th at 9:00 – 10:30 PT AM PT (1.5 hours) (n.b.: March event is SOLD OUT) Link to register: www.psychoanalyticinquiry.com/event/the-tr...

Going Beneath The Surface: What People Want From Therapy--by Linda Michaels of PsiAN.org Free video seminar now available from our Connections and Conversations series: vimeo.com/1014913845

🧵New paper from Louis Sass: "The aim of this article is to assess the Lacanian account of psychosis from the standpoint of phenomenological psychopathology including recent self-disorder models; and Sass’s Madness and Modernism..." 👇 Link (Free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for our next "Connections and Conversations" event: free/virtual SAT March 8, 2025 9a-10:30a PST To Join the Zoom Meeting: us06web.zoom.us/j/8535231843... Meeting ID: 853 5231 8433 Passcode: 215649

🧵New paper from Louis Sass: "The aim of this article is to assess the Lacanian account of psychosis from the standpoint of phenomenological psychopathology including recent self-disorder models; and Sass’s Madness and Modernism..." 👇 Link (Free): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Full article: Acts of Remembering: From a Radically Enactive Point of View www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us at our next Connections & Conversation event: "To Love and Lose or Never To Have Loved at All" by Peter Shabad, PhD February 15 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8535231843...

Check out our freshly recorded Helix roundtable on Otherness with George Makari, Jessica Benjamin, Eyal Rozmarin, Jasper St. Bernard, Daniel Goldin, Janice Edwards and Daniel Posner: www.youtube.com/live/WFgsxkX...

For a long time, psychoanalysts relied on the notion of representation to understand how humans model experiences in their brains. But representation is an inadequate idea. First, representation suggests a veridical correspondence between a meaning and reality.

"With the emergence of self-psychology, analysts of every stripe jostled for a position in the clinical theory hierarchy. Whose picture of pre-oedipal development would prove definitive? Into the breech strode the Baby Watchers." 7/7 Read for FREE here : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧵"In the afterglow of its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s, a certain malaise had set in. Psychoanalysis had become “The Impossible Profession” (Malcolm, 1981) – in a certain sense, a victim of its success..." 1/7

🧵"In the afterglow of its heyday in the ’50s and ’60s, a certain malaise had set in. Psychoanalysis had become “The Impossible Profession” (Malcolm, 1981) – in a certain sense, a victim of its success..." 1/7

“Charles Taylor, now ninety-three, has become one of the world’s most celebrated philosophers by pursuing the insight that human beings can only be understood phenomenologically—that is, by closely attending to what it is actually like to be one.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

🧵"This is the first of three issues devoted to the memory of Joe Lichtenberg, who founded Psychoanalytic Inquiry almost 50 years ago with Mel Bornstein. Joe had a restless mind – or perhaps “open” is a better word..." 1/5 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“In 'Images of the Past' we introduce the times, life and philosophical formation of the early twentieth century German Jewish philosopher and pioneering cultural critic Walter Benjamin.”—⁦by George Ikkos & Giovanni Stanghellini. FREE here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are proud to offer for online download an article by renown philosopher Daniel Hutto entitled "Acts of Remembering: From a Radically Enactive Point of View." You may access the article here. It is open-access and free for all: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out our freshly recorded Helix roundtable on Otherness with George Makari, Jessica Benjamin, Eyal Rozmarin, Jasper St. Bernard, Daniel Goldin, Janice Edwards and Daniel Posner: www.youtube.com/live/WFgsxkX...