Gregory Daniel Goldin describes his first session as a therapist.

New Substack post, "Gregory," in which Daniel Goldin, PsyD, describes his first session as a therapist.
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Psychoanalytic Inquiry Latin Voices. Volume 46, Issue 2 of Psychoanalytic Inquiry

New issue alert: "Latin Voices," Edited by Adriana Couto Silva, MS, MA, LCPC.

This collection brings together psychoanalytic voices from across Latin America & the Caribbean, published in both their original Spanish and Portuguese and in English translation.

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Masculine sexual predatory aggression, the desire to hunt and prey on feminine bodies for sexual release, permeates our cultural erotic landscape and intrapsychic life, yet is rarely addressed directly.

Psychoanalytic Inquiry Enlarging the Frame, Expanding Our Worlds: The Many Uses of Depth Therapy. Volume 46, Issue 1 of Psychoanalytic Inquiry

We are proud to announce the latest issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry:

"Enlarging the Frame, Expanding Our Worlds: The Many Uses of Depth Therapy."

Edited by Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA & Janice Muhr, Ph.D.

You can access here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpsi20/4...

Walter Benjamin Explains How Fascism Uses Mass Media to Turn Politics Into Spectacle (1935) Image via Wikimedia Commons In his 1935 essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility,' influential German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin introduced the term “aura' to describe an au...

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Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms - Psychoanalytic Inquiry Psychoanalytic Inquiry's Connections and Conversation Series: Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms

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

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Following these findings, it has been discussed whether the change in manifest dreams could be regarded as a genuine psychoanalytic outcome criterion, somewhat in contrast to symptom reduction."--Fischmann & Leuzinger-Bohleber, 2025.

Changes in manifest dream during successful psychoanalyses ▶️ reduction of nightmares, widening of the affective spectrum, ⬆️ successful problem-solving, ⬇️ observer dreams and ⬆️ mature object relations."

We posit that changes in the manifest dream content of psyA treatment depends on successful working through of newly understood memories of traumatic experiences. (+)

Dreams, Memories and Trauma – A Search for Transformations in Psychoanalyses This article reports on decades of efforts to understand changes in manifest dreams in psychodynamic therapies as indicators for relevant, sustaining transformations in the inner object world of pa...

Freud’s famous, “Remembering, repeating and working through” is still at the center of psychoanalytic treatment.

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Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms - Psychoanalytic Inquiry Psychoanalytic Inquiry's Connections and Conversation Series: Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms

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

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Curriculums could include studying Merleau-Ponty both for his overall phenomenology of embodiment—and in connection to, say, its implications for child developmental theory— & Jaspers and the tradition of phenomenological psychopathology would reinforce the clinical implications of phenomenology.

Short answer? Not enough phenomenology being taught in academic psychology or psychoanalytic training.

"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

This paper uses Daniel Shaw’s concept of relational systems of subjugation to highlight the prevalence of conversion therapy and trauma from religious beliefs during LGBTQ+ individuals' developmental years, and their implications.

Damned if I Do: Gay Men and the Wounds of Conversion Therapy Research shows that affirmative relationships and environments have a positive impact on the mental health of LGBTQIA+ people. Yet many LGBTQIA+ individuals experience relational traumas from rejec...

"Damned if I Do: Gay Men and the Wounds of Conversion Therapy."

New paper from Nick Santo now avail OPEN ACCESS here:
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Tell the Senate - no cuts to Medicaid in their budget! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network We’ve watched as our community put in calls, made visits, and shared their stories about why Medicaid matters. You’ve told your elected officials that this program is life-saving, vital support — and ...

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:

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Who knows what in mental health care? | Radboud University This debate centers around the issue of whether and to what extent the lived experience of patients provides (complementary) knowledge. This conference brings together researchers from various philosophical disciplines to contribute to this question.

"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

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Should we abolish the Psychoanalytic Institute? Writer Carter J. Carter; Editor/prologue, Daniel Goldin

Should we abolish the Psychoanalytic Institute? open.substack.com/pub/psychoan...
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Hate Speech as the Action of Inequality: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Democracy and Social Power This essay proposes that hate speech merits political consideration beyond society’s usual efforts to either banish or restrict, or alternatively, (as in the US context) to impose few restrictions ...

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.."
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Lastly, here is a link to Louis Sass' contribution, which 'revisits madness' through the lens of the later Lacan's seminars on psychosis, fusing phenomenology and psychoanalysis in an ambitious attempt to grasp madness on its own terms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Connections and Conversation - Daniel Posner Madness, embodiment & epistemic justice: A 360 degree perspective

And here is a link to our Connections & Conversations event (with issue ed. Daniel Posner) on the value of taking a 360 degree perspective in dialoguing w./ madness--one that holds psychoanalysis, phenomenology & 1st person accounts in dynamic tension : vimeo.com/1085504975
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YouTube video by The Italian Academy - Columbia University Bodily Self and Interpersonal Relations in Schizophrenia: A talk by Vittorio Gallese

Here is a link to the talk by Vittorio Gallese that Bien references, entitled, "Bodily Self and Interpersonal Relations in Schizophrenia." youtube.com/watch?v=E5QJ...
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My Body, My Psyche, My Self: An Empath’s Reflections on Being and Becoming in the World This paper is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the historical, familial, and sociopolitical factors that led to my first psychosis at age 31, and the familial, cultural, and social supports that...

The full text of "My Body, My Psyche, My Self: An Empath’s Reflections on Being and Becoming in the World" is now available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

Re-visiting her classic memoir, "Hearing Voices, Living Fully," Claire describes her experiences hearing voices as stemming from an extraordinary sensitivity, a phenomenon that allows for insight and empathic connection as well as presenting challenges. 👇

"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."
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The Self: Lost and Found Can we have experiences without a “self” that’s having them? Is my “self” something private and interior, unknowable to anybody else? How is that inner self related to my body, to other people, to ...

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....