The Day After in Therapy

Post-Trump Election Win

They say there are two Americas, but in my office there has been these past few days only one: frightened, demoralized, disoriented -- but also defiant, even aroused. My first patient of the day after the elections asked if we could postpone so he could watch Hilary Clinton concede on ...
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The Day After in Therapy

Talking about Gaza in Psychoanalysis

Politics is usually absent from explicit discourse in psychoanalysis. I say explicit, because obviously we all live in socio-political contexts that signify and structure our roles in any setting. There is a long history to the retreat of politics and political thought from the psychoanalytic clinic. But suffice it to ...

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Talking about Gaza in Psychoanalysis