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Covid-19
To say this last year 2020 has been difficult for us all, is a gross understatement. The pandemic, which I dare anyone to say that they anticipated, has turned everyone’s life upside down including our professional life. With the spread of Covid 19, the intentional steady and deliberate timelessness of the analytic endeavor was brought to a crashing halt as analysts and patients scrambled to find safety. In a curious manner, it was worse than any imagined foreign enemy or
Deforestation and The Psychoanalytic “Trunk”
Occasions arise when it feels opportune to look back see where the psychoanalytic trail began and where it has led. I have been in the field for now 30 years and, like many others, have seen my share of the theoretical controversies that seemed at times to consume us. At the outset, it is unquestionably true that we have benefitted enormously from the transformations in theory and technique that, starting with Freud himself and moving through Klein, Winnicott, Jacobsen, Shaffer,
Suicide: Spade, Bourdain, Queen Maxima’s sister Ines Zorrequieta, and 30 % higher. What’s going on?
There are always “lessons” that we, as survivors, try to extract from these tragic ends. There is a powerful need to explain, and explain away, what feels to most of us frightening inexplicable e.g. How could someone so…. rich, successful, famous, young, full of promise feel so hopeless, so dead-ended to do this? As a practicing psychoanalyst I feel our field has something special to say and to remind those of us left behind. One at this point, almost trite
Trump, Collusion, and Representative Democracy
A Chinese curse goes as follows: May you live in interesting times! We are in one of these. There have been massive shifts in alliances that have existed for over fifty years since the end of the last World WAR. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends as the political economic horizon has changed. Here in the USA tensions run high over what it means to be American and immigration policies, gender and social roles, class distinctions etc. in a
There is so much dissension; how can we come together?
It seems like every night and possibly all day long the media offers us constant reminder of the multiple splits in our nation. While of course it is necessary to recognize and support populations who are or have been mistreated or neglected or ignored, there is a danger in doing this that we become less a nation and more a collection of hordes espousing their special interests. There are many different explanations as to why we have become such a
Covid-19
To say this last year 2020 has been difficult for us all, is a gross understatement. The pandemic, which I dare anyone to say that they anticipated, has turned everyone’s life upside down including our professional life. With the spread of Covid 19, the intentional steady and deliberate timelessness of the analytic endeavor was brought to a crashing halt as analysts and patients scrambled to find safety. In a curious manner, it was worse than any imagined foreign enemy or
Deforestation and The Psychoanalytic “Trunk”
Occasions arise when it feels opportune to look back see where the psychoanalytic trail began and where it has led. I have been in the field for now 30 years and, like many others, have seen my share of the theoretical controversies that seemed at times to consume us. At the outset, it is unquestionably true that we have benefitted enormously from the transformations in theory and technique that, starting with Freud himself and moving through Klein, Winnicott, Jacobsen, Shaffer,
Suicide: Spade, Bourdain, Queen Maxima’s sister Ines Zorrequieta, and 30 % higher. What’s going on?
There are always “lessons” that we, as survivors, try to extract from these tragic ends. There is a powerful need to explain, and explain away, what feels to most of us frightening inexplicable e.g. How could someone so…. rich, successful, famous, young, full of promise feel so hopeless, so dead-ended to do this? As a practicing psychoanalyst I feel our field has something special to say and to remind those of us left behind. One at this point, almost trite
Trump, Collusion, and Representative Democracy
A Chinese curse goes as follows: May you live in interesting times! We are in one of these. There have been massive shifts in alliances that have existed for over fifty years since the end of the last World WAR. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends as the political economic horizon has changed. Here in the USA tensions run high over what it means to be American and immigration policies, gender and social roles, class distinctions etc. in a
There is so much dissension; how can we come together?
It seems like every night and possibly all day long the media offers us constant reminder of the multiple splits in our nation. While of course it is necessary to recognize and support populations who are or have been mistreated or neglected or ignored, there is a danger in doing this that we become less a nation and more a collection of hordes espousing their special interests. There are many different explanations as to why we have become such a
