Psychoanalysis is moving into an exciting, challenging era, melding our historic focus on the psychological, subjective insides with this newer recognition of the individual’s social context.

Memory is a living system, constantly reconfiguring itself through a dialectical process of preserving the old while integrating the new.

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

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

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

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?

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

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.”

How do we know when psychoanalysis works? …