Psychology’s Faustian Bargain

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 12, 2026February 16, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Psychology’s Faustian Bargain: In its quest to become a “hard” science, psychology sacrificed its soul by Ted Beauchaine Ph.D. in his the Psychological Science Meets the Streets blog on the Psychology Today blogs on February 9, 2026.

Bell Ends: In which a psychoanalytic institute disinvites a noted transphobe . . .

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 12, 2026February 12, 2026 Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Bell Ends: In which a psychoanalytic institute disinvites a noted transphobe . . , by Carter J. Carter, Ph.D LICSW on his Substack on February 12, 2026.

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My Therapist Is on Hinge. I Have Feelings About It.

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 12, 2026February 12, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: My Therapist Is on Hinge. I Have Feelings About It. In Ask a Psychoanalyst by Stephanie Newman, PhD on The American Psychoanalyst Substack on February 12, 2026.

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The Elusive and Dynamic Struggle for Identity

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 11, 2026February 11, 2026 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: The Elusive and Dynamic Struggle for Identity: The Nature of Updating Identity and its Related Resistance to Change (Vol. 6; Issue 6) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD in his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind website on February 11, 2026.

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AI and Psychology

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: How AI Is Transforming the Grieving Process, By Kendra Pierre-Louis, David Berreby, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura on the Scientific American website on November 12, 2025.

Click Here to Read: How AI Is Reshaping Human Psychology, Identity and Culture Human psychological transformation extends far beyond technology use December 9, 2025.

What About the Children? Why are we choosing to terrorize them?

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Politics

Click Here to Read: What About the Children? Why are we choosing to terrorize them? by Elliot Kirschner on his Through the Fog website on February 6, 2026.

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Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967)

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 10, 2026February 10, 2026 Literature

Click Here to Read: Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967): Making Black experience a modern lyric music by Robert Goodman on the Spoken Word Poetry Substack on February 5, 2026.

Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten. Image: Carl Van Vechten. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.