International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #1
By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #4 Issue #1.  The theme of the issue is Memoir and Psychoanalysis with a target paper by Merle Heidi Molofky, MFA, NCPsyA and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also Review of Donnelley M. (2023). Treatment Resistance in Therapy: A Patient’s Perspective. Ireviewed be J. Christopher Fowler and a Response to Dr. Fowler by Marshall Donnelley This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature
By Categories: Arts, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature: Working in the wilderness could not satiate my intellectual impulses. But for the protagonist of “Hothouse Bloom,” the binary between mental and physical labor is what calls her by  Dan Sinykin in the Nation Magazine on September 5, 2026.

A shepherd and his flock in a landscape. Attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos (1631–1685) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Is a Therapist Allowed to Be Attractive? Beauty and style in the clinical encounter
By Categories: General, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Is a Therapist Allowed to Be Attractive? Beauty and style in the clinical encounter by By Sarika Persaud in The American Psychoanalyst on September 17, 2026.

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Liu Wen walks the runway at the Diane von Fürstenberg Spring/Summer 2014 show at New York Fashion Week, September 2013.Image: CHRISTOPHER MACSURAK  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

These Four Giant Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in North Dakota Might Represent the First Trackway Made by an Adult T. Rex Ever Found
By Categories: Science

Click Here to Read: These Four Giant Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in North Dakota Might Represent the First Trackway Made by an Adult T. Rex Ever Found. A high school teacher first spotted the remarkable trail while volunteering on a paleontological dig. Researchers suspect a hulking, full-grown dinosaur marched through the then-swampy landscape roughly 66.5 million years ago by Sarah Kutant on the Smithsonian Magazine website  on September 15, 2026.

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