The American Psychoanalyst
Contemporary writing on clinical practice, culture, politics, and everyday psychic life.
TAP is a digital and print publication offering a psychoanalytic perspective on the modern world.
Featured Article:
In Ask a Psychoanalyst, Stephanie Newman, PhD, responds to reader questions about therapy, relationships, and the psychopathology of everyday life. Submit your questions to advice@tapmag.org after reading our submissions terms.
When One Person’s Mood Runs the House
In some families, one person sets the emotional climate and everyone else keeps an eye on the forecast.
Holding the Frame in an Era of Corporate Care
Clinicians share their views on practice management companies
Male Grievance, Misogyny, and the Rise of Toxic Masculinity
While autonomy and self-reliance are adaptive capacities, their exaggerated expression betrays underlying fragility rather than genuine potency.
My Therapist Is on Hinge. I Have Feelings About It.
The internet has a way of collapsing boundaries we didn’t even realize were there—including the one protecting your image of your shrink.
Fashion’s Deep Surface
Valerie Steele on Freud, fetishism, and the emotional life of clothing
The Patient’s Wish to Know Their Therapist
Curiosity, fantasy, and the therapist’s inner world
Burning Down the House
Avgi Saketopoulou’s lecture “Fighting Fire with Fire” left me wondering if there may be more than one way to burn.
Issue 59.2 Out Now
TAP 59.2 covers the social turn in psychoanalysis, therapy as method acting, ketamine therapy, and more.
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