Click Here to Read: From Oppression to Freedom Back to Oppression by Elliot Jurist and Julia Jurist on their Mental(izing) Health Substack on April 3, 2026.
Category: Psychoanalysis
Stories on psychotherapy and technology from The American Psychoanalyst
Click Here to Read: Holding the Frame in an Era of Corporate Care: Clinicians share their views on practice management companies By Linda Michaels on The American Psychoalyst website.
Click here to Read: Algorithmic Defenses Against Thinking: The rise of UberTherapy By Elizabeth Cotton on The American Psychoalyst website.
21st century robots. Seen from the future, they will just look cute. Image: Ralf Steinberger from Milan, Berlin + Munich, Italy + Germany Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30
PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” Presenter: Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW Discussant: Kimberly S. Kleinman, MS, LCSW Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00-9:30pm EDT Online via Zoom 1.5 CEUs Available
This paper will present clinical material in the form of brief narratives and vignettes while posing difficult questions for the analytic community to consider. I hope that listeners can consider some, if not most, of these questions on a personal professional level. A key question is whether emotional and professional confraternization occurs within the analytic community. Throughout this paper, when I use the term confratricide, I am referring to the emotional and professional killing off of colleagues, rather than literal physical killing. What is our part when such problems occur within psychoanalytic centers, institutes, and larger organizations? Do we participate by increasing splitting? Do we address the difficulties at deeper levels, asking what causes the collegial splitting? Do all members at the local, national, and international levels participate in confratricide in varying degrees? Continue reading CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30
Online Information Series 4/1: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach w/ Drs. Samar Habl & Jeremy Ridenour
f you or anyone you know has ever had questions about the Austen Riggs Center’s residential treatment for adults, this free online series may be of interest:
Online Information Series: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach When outpatient therapy, hospitalization, PHP, IOP, or residential treatment has not led to lasting change, determining the next step can be difficult.
Hosted by Director of Admissions and Associate Medical Director Samar Habl, MD, and Associate Director of Admissions and Director of Psychological Testing Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP, this session will provide an overview of:
Who Riggs is best suited for
How our open setting differs from locked or highly structured programs
How we approach safety, responsibility, and relational treatment
The admissions and evaluation process
Upcoming session:
5:00–5:50 PM Eastern Continue reading Online Information Series 4/1: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach w/ Drs. Samar Habl & Jeremy Ridenour
When One Person’s Mood Runs the House
The Truth About Transference and Countertransference
Click Here to Read: The Truth About Transference and Countertransference: Why it matters in therapy, coaching, plant medicine facilitation, and everyday life by Hannah Dalby on her Synthesis with Hannah Dalby substack on February 26, 2026.
Image: Transference by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free Public Domain via Creative Commons.
Neuroticism is linked to altered communication between the brain’s emotional networks
Click Here to Read: Neuroticism is linked to altered communication between the brain’s emotional networks by Karina Petrova on the PsyPost website on March 17, 2026.
Principal fissures and lobes of the cerebrum viewed laterally. Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body Image: Derivative work: Mysid Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
