Psychoanalysis and Human Rights
Steven Reisner on politics, theater, and ending psychologists’ complicity in torture
The Art of Listening to Clients (and Jazz)
In therapy as in music, we are working through silences, syncopations, and melodies behind the narratives.
ON FEAR OF HOPE
Ellenhorn is a sociologist and clinical social worker who has developed an innovative treatment program for psychiatric and psychosocial recovery which bears his name.
IN THE GRAY ZONE
Everywhere in pre-1947 India, signs hung that read, “No Indians or Dogs allowed.”
WHERE ARE THE SOCIAL WORKERS IN APSA?
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
DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP
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.
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.
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.