Steven Reisner on politics, theater, and ending psychologists’ complicity in torture

Hear the TAP team perform a Beatles classic.

New IPA reference tool traces the global migration and mutation of key ideas.

PR must become a well-funded priority if the organization’s going to survive and grow.

Author Jeremy Eichler: “It’s not just we who remember music, but music that remembers us as a society.”

When our brains replace the actual lyric of a song with an erroneous substitution, is this a mere mishearing? Or is something more akin to Freudian parapraxis at play?

Rather than see every father as perverse, [Freud] let all abusers off the hook.

They were suspicious of us Jews from the North. They thought we were masquerading as Americans.

I turned around. There was only one other person in the locker room, and it was Paul McCartney.

Bandy Lee discusses Trump’s “symbiotic” relationship with his supporters, the nature of violence, and the ethics of speaking up.

In therapy as in music, we are working through silences, syncopations, and melodies behind the narratives.

The new edition … sheds more light on Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, but also the work of being a journalist and trying to get to the bottom of who your subject is.

Seeing music as a “body” awash in color, hearing it when no one else does, landed her in hospitals as a teenager and resulted in misdiagnoses such as bipolar and schizophrenia—along with the requisite medications.

It is far past time to let go of the dominant narrative that Freud––and, by extension, all of psychoanalysis––has been discredited. 

Storytelling is central to both literature and psychoanalysis, as is language more generally: what is said and not said.

What if we thought of therapy as this kind of experience: one of floating, exploring, descending, and ascending in a fluid medium? What if the psychic “traces” described by Freud were underwater rather than underground?

This movie is a fanciful representation of what many Americans are experiencing now—a full-on identity crisis—and if we don’t discover who we are and what we’re here for, we’re in for a mental collapse.

This issue of TAP marks the arrival of spring with themes of love, sex, desire, and addiction.

Probably none of Freud’s ideas have aroused more disgust and incredulity than the Oedipus complex.

How many of these Freudian flicks have you seen?

How do we approach patients who are experiencing a downturn in their marriage, or marriage-like commitment, even a desiccation of love?

On an evening in 2011, my then-boyfriend nearly strangled me to death in my bedroom.

In my clinical experience, addictions are neither more nor less than compulsions, psychological problems which we know how to treat.

We possess the knowledge, and the technology, to make changes necessary to prevent the climate from deteriorating further. Psychological obstacles, along with political ones, prevent us from implementing them.

In April of 1905, a month before her discharge from the care of Carl Jung at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Hospital, nineteen-year-old Sabina Spielrein visited the University of Zurich and contemplated a return to normal life and resumption of her studies.

I steal my first book on psychoanalytic theory when I am fourteen. It is Karen Horney’s The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, and I steal it from a bookstore in Worcester.

Ellenhorn is a sociologist and clinical social worker who has developed an innovative treatment program for psychiatric and psychosocial recovery which bears his name.

Everywhere in pre-1947 India, signs hung that read, “No Indians or Dogs allowed.”

The number of social workers in APsA remains astonishingly small at 8 percent, when social workers comprise more than half of mental health providers nationwide

Due to a historic bylaw change in 2023 to promote greater inclusivity, psychoanalytic psychotherapists—therapists with psychoanalytic methods who haven’t completed traditional institute training—now have full membership status in the American Psychoanalytic Association.