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.
Psychoanalysis as a Public Good
The Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis pursues equitable access to treatment
Holding the Frame in an Era of Corporate Care
Clinicians share their views on practice management companies
The Patient’s Wish to Know Their Therapist
Curiosity, fantasy, and the therapist’s inner world
Burning Down the House
Avgi Saketopoulou’s lecture “Fighting Fire with Fire” left me wondering if there may be more than one way to burn.
From Chosen Trauma to Depolarization
Addressing toxic polarization in groups using the work of Vamik Volkan
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.