CIVILIZATION AND ITS PLAYLIST
Mr. Farley’s cultural references, and the historical moment of his psychoanalysis, are mine
LOOKING, OR NOT LOOKING, TOGETHER
I was honored to be invited to speak at the APsA annual winter meeting in February 2023, along with Alan Pollack, Stephanie Brody, Salman Akhtar, and Dionne Powell as part of a panel on death and mortality.
THE SPRING DEBACLE
I will not repeat the details of the controversy but instead will focus on the general breakdown of collegiality in speaking and listening to each other at APsA.
BEYOND GUILT AND RACISM DENIAL
TAP editor in chief Austin Ratner took an opportunity to chat with Phillipe Copeland, a professor of social work at Boston University…
THE SITTING CURE
It’s not hard to shut your mouth. It’s not hard to deposit your phone behind the front desk with Jen. The hard part is meditating.
A RETURN TO LITERATURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS? IT'S TIME
Earlier this year, colleges and universities began to report a surprising trend about their 2023 applicants:
PLAYING THE VILLAIN
Chukwudi Iwuji on creative process, childhood dreams, and his role in Guardians of the Galaxy 3…
FROM BIOLOGICAL TO BALANCED
We got the best drugs.” That was my answer when asked why I chose…
CONVERSION
Jack Drescher was not yet a doctor, just finishing up medical school and beginning…
THE FREEING SPEECH OF PIONEER ERIKA SCHMIDT
Erika Schmidt was a woman of many firsts: the first woman, the…
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ARNOLD RICHARDS
Dear Austin, congratulations on your new TAP. The content and the graphics are awesome. I am a proud grandfather. I started TAP in 1989.
TEMPORALITY AND THE FIGHT FOR MEANING IN ‘THE FATHER’ (2020)
In a pivotal scene very near the end of Florian Zeller’s 2020 film The Father, the titular character Anthony (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins) says to a caregiver in a heartbreaking moment of memory struggle, “I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves ... the branches and the wind and the rain ... I don’t know what’s happening anymore.”