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.
Issue 59.2 Out Now
TAP 59.2 covers the social turn in psychoanalysis, therapy as method acting, ketamine therapy, and more.
Supporting the Science of Psychoanalysis
Meet the people behind a global program cultivating the next generation of psychoanalytic researchers.
Building the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance
Chinese psychoanalysis emerges through training and scholarship
“Sinners” is a film about Black Joy
Sinners invites viewers to face the realities of collective pain, hold the tensions of joy and injustice, and imagine a freer world.
On Being Jewish
There is something inside of me I can’t get rid of. It weighs me down at the center of my body like a stone.
White Noise
Is today’s schizophrenic media multiverse the companionable entity that TV once was?
Deus in Machina
From AI to VR to the gig economy, TAP 59.1 covers all things psychoanalysis and technology.
From Chosen Trauma to Depolarization
Addressing toxic polarization in groups using the work of Vamik Volkan