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Body & Mind

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

March 4, 2024 • by Josephine Houman

“I watched my body shrink in the mirror,” Clein writes, “proud to discover how powerful my mind was.” I know the feeling....

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Understanding Myself Wasn’t All It Was Cracked Up to Be

A psychiatric diagnosis can be a relief—until it gives you other problems to solve

February 7, 2023 • by Josephine Houman

If my ADHD had been diagnosed earlier, my psychiatrist explained, the medication would have worked....

Understanding Myself Wasn’t All It Was Cracked Up to Be

Psyche

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer on young and emerging adulthood

April 12, 2022 • by Rainesford Stauffer

Young adulthood doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Systemic problems do impact how, or whether, young people meet the so-called milestones of young adulthood....

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Gender

New School Alum Melissa Febos uses memoir to understand the startling shame of becoming a woman in the eyes of others in this excerpt of her book Girlhood

October 20, 2021 • by Melissa Febos

"I got my period when I was ten, and I’d been reading Judy Blume books for a while so I knew it was coming," said Tanaïs. "And when it came, I wasn’t prepared for it anymore." A 2011 American Association of University Women (AAUW) school survey shows that early development ...

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How to be Thankful in 2020

Making the best of video conferencing, social distancing, and Star Trek

November 24, 2020 • by Linus Glenhaber

Ten years ago, I remember trying to coordinate watching a TV show with a friend who was across the country from me. He was in San Diego at the time while I was in Boston; while social distancing would not be a phrase for a decade, we were certainly physical ...

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Psychoanalysis and Post-Truth

A discussion of the evolution of politics and truth in our contemporary world

October 29, 2020 • by Jordan Osserman, Aimée Lê and Foivos Dousos

On November 1st and 8th, the Freud Museum, London will be hosting a digital conference on “Psychoanalysis and ‘Post-Truth’,” organized with Jordan Osserman and Foivos Dousos in partnership with the Ministry of Post-Truth and Waiting Times. The event takes place during the weekends before and after the US election, offering critical ...

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Sex with Robots

Digisexuality and the disavowal of the human

September 3, 2020 • by Cassandra Seltman and Danielle Knafo

---------------------- How do we feel free in a body with limits? How do we withstand psychical states of excruciating ambivalence? How can we depend on others, when what we depend on is disappointing, desirous, and unpredictable? These are the questions brought into the consulting room of a psychoanalyst. Often these questions are ...

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Trauma Changes Us but it Won’t Kick Us Down

July 23, 2020 • by Ariel Vidal

When I was a child, I experienced and witnessed my father’s physical and emotional abuse of my older brother. Every aspect of my life was controlled mostly by my father. I was not allowed to have male friends or let my grades slip. As my brother's grades slipped, I felt ...

Literature

Fifteen Years

July 23, 2020 • by Ariel Vidal

You haven’t tried.To know me.Only try to control me.You think it’s my job to cater to you? I was seven,Or around that age,When you two finally separated.I was relieved. You never deserved her.And she may not be thereAs much as I need her,But even then you haven’t earned her love.So why would ...

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Stillness in the Eye of the Storm: Analytic Faith and Authenticity During COVID-19

July 23, 2020 • by Nicholas Fehertoi

The COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a challenge for clinicians by undermining the usual therapeutic setup, a mutual but asymmetrical balance of participation and power in which the clinician attempts to create a space for clients, to contain their anxieties, and foster a sense of agency. However, concepts like mutuality and asymmetry ...

Stillness in the Eye of the Storm: Analytic Faith and Authenticity During COVID-19

Interviews

Capitalism Hits Home: An Interview with Harriet Fraad

July 23, 2020 • by Harriet Fraad and Daniel Gaztambide

Dr. Fraad is a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in New Haven, Connecticut and she’s been a political activist since her high school days. She joined Daniel Gaztambide for a brief interview on November 11, 2019, on how capitalism “trickles down” into the intimacies of our relationships and ...

History

Time Is Out of Joint

Simultaneity in the epoch of the near and far

July 16, 2020 • by Sergio Infante

For those who are either unemployed or overworked, those whose habits and routines have fallen apart, those experiencing psychological or bodily distress, the days may seem to drag on endlessly. For others -- perhaps those who find themselves on the pandemic’s frontlines or those who have discovered a sense of ...