Click Here to Read: The Doomsday Orgy Wasn’t Really About Sex: How Humor Transforms Helplessness into Defiance (Vol. 6; Issue 30) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD in his Psyche Meets Society website on July 29, 2026.
Category: Psychoanalysis
Designed to be Love
Click Here to Read: Designed to be Loved: The articles: Designed to be Loved by Heather deCastro, LCSW; Deferring the Fourth Narcissistic Blow? by Irene Argenti and Todd Essig, PhD; and Who’s Doing the Thinking When the AI Scribe Writes? by Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD in the American Psychoanayst Substack Newsletter CAI Currents on July 28, 2026.
The Divided Self of Elliott Smith: Biographer Jamie Fisher on creativity, psychoanalysis, and the need for connection
Scientists identify five key factors linked to happiness across 66 countries
Microplastics in the Brain: What Evidence Shows (and What It Doesn’t)
Click Here to Read: Microplastics in the Brain: What Evidence Shows (and What It Doesn’t) By Emily Meenan, Grace Schroeder on the Brain and Life website on March 9, 2026,
Microplastic poses a growing concern in oceans and other aquatic habitat. Image: 5Gyres, courtesy of Oregon State University. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
A Surface Scratched: Improvisation on a dead-end street
What African Countries Can Teach Everyone About Flourishing
Click Here to Read: What African Countries Can Teach Everyone About Flourishing: New research challenges assumptions about well-being and highlights the role of culture, connection, and purpose By Victor Counted on the Greater Good website on July 15, 2026.
A masai woman carrying her baby in a sarong knitted around her body Image: Vendeeelaaa Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
