Click Here to Read: The Psychology of True Crime and Emotional Regulation: True crime may reduce symptoms of anxiety, fear, and insecurity by Lindsay Weisner Psy.D. on her The Venn Diagram Life blog on the Psychology Today blogs on August 14, 2026.
Category: Psychoanalysis
My Husband Had an Emotional Affair. Can I Ever Trust Him Again?
OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING with MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY:
OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
HOW CAN EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER PROFESSION BE DEEPENED AND INTEGRATED THROUGH PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING?
Psychoanalytic training changes how a person understands relationships, motivation, emotion, conflict, and development, allowing previous professional experience to take on new meaning. This presentation explores how my earlier work as a jury and trial consultant informs — and contrasts with — my current work as a therapist trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In jury selection, consultants must form quick, high-stakes impressions about potential jurors’ biases and decision-making tendencies, often within minutes and under significant time pressure. Psychoanalytic treatment, by contrast, requires a disciplined slowing down: tolerating uncertainty, suspending premature conclusions, and allowing meaning to emerge over time. This presentation will discuss how the shift from rapid evaluative judgment to sustained analytic listening reshaped my clinical stance, especially during my early training. Learning not to approach therapy like a one-day jury selection process — but instead as a gradual, unfolding inquiry — required developing patience and comfort with ambiguity. Drawing on examples from both Continue reading OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING with MITPP
You, Me, and the Smartphone Between Us: What Our Screens are Doing to Intimacy
Book Review: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari
How Much Psychology Can You Really Trust? Popular theories often become facts before the evidence deserves our trust
Click Here to Read: How Much Psychology Can You Really Trust? Popular theories often become facts before the evidence deserves our trust by Richard Brown PhD on his Understanding Health Behaviors blog on the Psychology Today blogs on August 13, 2026.
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Resilience and Aging: A Reflection From the Camino
Click Here to Read: Resilience and Aging: A Reflection From the Camino: by Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW on her Building Resiliency to Trauma blog on the Psychology Today blogs on August 16, 2026.
The map shows the main pilgrimage routes of the Camino de Santiago nowadays Image: WikiPate. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
