Click Here to Read: Inside the war tearing psychoanalysis apart: ‘The most hatred I’ve ever witnessed’: A professor was accused of antisemitism. The controversy has exploded into a bigger, messier debate about the future of psychology itself by J Oliver Conroy on The Guardian website on June 16, 2023.
Lara Sheehi
From a psychoanalytic perspective, here is what I think the article “Freud Save America” gets right and wrong. On a clinical level, there is a real threat to free association if political correctness blocks the ability of people to say what is on their mind without censoring. On the other hand, analysis can provide the space and time for people to reflect on their internal struggle between their own thoughts and what they think is now acceptable. However, analysis only works if people say everything without self-censoring.
As I have written in my book (Mis)Understanding Freud, there is a threat posed to analysis by a certain Left-wing idea that one can only be analyzed by someone who belongs to the same identity group. This misguided application of identity polit Continue reading A Response to Psychoanalysis and the Left: Comment by Bob Samuels
Click Here to Read: Anti-Semitism: A Psychoanalytic Perspective by Andrew (Nachum) Klafter from the book Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry: Recognition, Prevention and Interventions edited by H. Steven Moffic, John R. Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, and Mary V. Seeman (2020) New York: Springer, p. 163-181.
Andrew (Nachum) Klafter
Click Here to Read: A TROUBLING SIGN FOR 2024: The midterms were a welcome reprieve for democracy. But the story of Bill Gates, an Arizona election official, suggests that we might not be so lucky in next year’s presidential election. By Barton Gellman on the Atlantic website on March 7, 2023.
Sign for Donald Trump at a rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. Image Gage Skidmore. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
