Raging Against the Dying Light: How Denial, Disavowal, and Dissociation Can Protect Us—and Keep Us from Acting

Click Here to Read: Raging Against the Dying Light: How Denial, Disavowal, and Dissociation Can Protect Us—and Keep Us from Acting (Vol. 6; Issue 38) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on this Psyche Meets Society newsletter on September 23, 2026.

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ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE with MITPP

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ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: PRESENTER: SEISO PAUL C. COOPER, Ph.D., LP

The British psychoanalyst, Wilfred Bion (1897-1979) and the Soto Zen Buddhist master, Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), were both highly creative and brilliant thinkers who exerted a radical impact on their respective disciplines. Their ideas continue to contribute to the contemporary cross-fertilization between Buddhism and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Despite the highly Continue reading ZEN BUDDHISM & PSYCHOANALYSIS:  A REALIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE with MITPP

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Click Here to Read:  Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds. A new study led by Stanford Medicine found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another. The finding could aid research into devastating neurological diseases By Krista Conger on the Stanford Medicine website on September 18, 2026.

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From Brian Rot to AI Fitness

Click Here to Read: From Brian Rot to AI Fitness  including the articles Travel Planning: A Step on One’s AI-Fitness Journey by Todd Essig, PhD: Brain  Rotting: Captured by Screens by Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD and Psychotherapy’s Swimsuit Problem Heather deCastro LCSW, and Todd Essig, PhD in the CAI Currents Substack from The American Psychoanalyst on September 22, 2026.

 

 

 

How a Creative Mind Lives In Nature

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.

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