Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times?

Click Here to Read: Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times? The psychology behind our belief that the world is getting worse by Gurnek Bains Ph.D. on his A Global Lens blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 8, 2026.

Dark Clouds of Factory Smoke Obscure Clark Avenue Bridge Image: Frank John Aleksandrowicz (1921–2014)  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Is a Therapist Allowed to Be Attractive? Beauty and style in the clinical encounter

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.

Free Associations: News and related stories for TAP

A cowboy outfit spurs an analysis (TAP) Gender and embodiment in Fashion (TAP)  More on Indian maternal transference (TAP)

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.

 

Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from Russia to Mexico

Click Here to Read: Yiddish’s ‘revival’ points to its resilience as a portable homeland – and a global reach, from Russia to Mexico to the US by Ilan Stavans on the Converstation website on August 31, 2026.

Yiddish-language advertisement for Joseph Moskowitz’s restaurant (c.1910s).  Image: Scott Rosenthal personal collection Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.