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.

Sigmund Freud’s famous dictum “from error to error, one discovers the entire truth” seems entirely appropriate as a guide for attempting to critically evaluate Matthew Brown’s strange film adaptation of Mark St. Germain’s one-act play Freud’s Last Session.

In season 8 of his CNN travel show Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain visits a psychoanalyst during a trip to Buenos Aires, a city some have called the psychoanalytic capital of the world.

Walk through Brooklyn Bridge Park on a summer Sunday and you see people with dark skin and people with light skin and every shade in between…

Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel said a little over twenty years ago that “psychoanalysis still represents the most coherent and intellectually satisfying view of the mind.”

Picture this: One Saturday morning in the mid- 1980s, a ten-year-old boy and his mother are roaming the weekly farmers’ market in a college town in western Massachusetts.

Why do we seek out pain, and how does the pursuit differ in men and women? Filmmakers around the globe have mined for the answers. Here are eight double features with male protagonists who just can’t get enough pain, punishment, and self-destruction.

Starting in the fall of 1980, I sequestered myself four mornings a week in a windowless cubicle beneath a Saks Fifth Avenue in suburban Philadelphia…

Mr. Farley’s cultural references, and the historical moment of his psychoanalysis, are mine

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.

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.

TAP editor in chief Austin Ratner took an opportunity to chat with Phillipe Copeland, a professor of social work at Boston University…

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.

Earlier this year, colleges and universities began to report a surprising trend about their 2023 applicants:

I was not born here. I was born in a place that no longer exists…

Tati Nguyen’s recollection of her clandestine, frightening, hurried…

Chukwudi Iwuji on creative process, childhood dreams, and his role in Guardians of the Galaxy 3…

Reading Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra…

Sigmund Freud and William Shakespeare go together like peanut…

In artmaking, according to Ernst Kris, the ego simultaneously…

Freud has always fascinated artists. The production of dramas about…

What did William Blake, Aldous Huxley, and Jim Morrison have in…

When I was in my late thirties or early forties, a few years before I…

We got the best drugs.” That was my answer when asked why I chose…

Jack Drescher was not yet a doctor, just finishing up medical school and beginning…

Erika Schmidt was a woman of many firsts: the first woman, the…

How do we know when psychoanalysis works? …

TAP is a survivor. It began as the APsA newsletter, graduated to…

Dear Austin, congratulations on your new TAP. The content and the graphics are awesome. I am a proud grandfather. I started TAP in 1989.