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Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

The changing relationship between mind and machine

April 16, 2018 • by Kevin Rice

Whether it is an unhealthy YouTube fascination with Boston Dynamic’s robot dogs opening doors, Amazon’s Alexa on your coffee table, or Elon Musk’s ominous March 13th statement of “Mark my words -- AI is far more dangerous than nukes,” chances are the growing conversation of artificial intelligence has intruded in some way ...

Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

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Were We There to Talk about AIDS, or Not?

One woman’s journey in psychotherapy

April 4, 2018 • by Margaret Kim Peterson

This excerpt is part of a longer essay. To read the full essay please click here. Introduction. In January of 1990 I was shocked when the Korean immigrant and Harvard-educated molecular biologist I had recently begun dating said he had something to tell me: he was HIV-positive. The shock never really subsided, ...

Were We There to Talk about AIDS, or Not?

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The #MeToo Moment and the Reproduction of Silence

Can we talk and listen at the same time?

March 1, 2018 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

On February 8, 2018, The New School hosted an event entitled "Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation, and Consent." Psychologist Jeremy Safran moderated a panel featuring Lew Aron and Adrienne Harris from NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Katie Gentile from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and ...

The #MeToo Moment and the Reproduction of Silence

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Psychoanalysis and #MeToo

Reflecting on sexuality, power, desire, coercion, and consent

February 27, 2018 • by Laura Hooberman

On February 8, 2018, the New School for Social Research hosted a panel discussion, co-sponsored by The Sandor Ferenczi Center, the New School gender studies & sexuality program and Public Seminar, entitled “Sexual Harassment and Assault: Eros, Power, Violation and Consent.” The event, designed as the first part of a ...

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Divining Desire

The rise of the focus group

February 24, 2018 • by Christopher Howard-Woods

On February 15, 2017, our Executive Editor Claire Potter met with journalist Liza Featherstone to discuss the launch of her new book, Divining Desire, about the development and legacy of one of the great curiosities of our culture: focus groups. We livestreamed their conversation on Facebook, which you can watch here. If ...

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Racial Preference and Grindr

The enduring erotics of colonialism

January 11, 2018 • by Dominic Reilly

Beyond preference vs. prejudice At what point does preference become discrimination? This question was used to frame a recent video produced by Grindr exploring the increasingly prominent topic of “race” and so-called “racial preferences” on hook-up and dating apps. That increasing attention is being paid to the racialized aspects of our partner selections ...

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Trump, Freud, and the Puzzle of Femininity

Our fear of the feminine might be the great riddle of democracy

December 6, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

But our president is the Greatest Repudiator. Not only has he sought to repudiate the Paris Climate Accord, UNESCO, women’s reproductive rights, and Obamacare; he has also demonstrated that he is obsessed with repudiating everything Obama. He practically revels in ignoring if not dismissing democratic values we take for granted: ...

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Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims

Patients and therapists should ignore new guidelines for treating trauma

December 5, 2017 • by Jonathan Shedler

The guidelines are supposed to reflect the best scientific evidence. In fact, they ignore all scientific evidence except one kind of study, called randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RCTs randomly assign people to treatment or control groups. They can answer certain questions (Is a medication more effective than a sugar pill?) and not others ...

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The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man

Exploring the twisted personalities calling the shots in a culture where mean is celebrated

November 27, 2017 • by Mark Lipton

Mark Lipton – with rich experience as an adviser to major corporations, start-ups, government agencies, and not-for-profits – integrates years of psychological research to uncover what drives men in powerful positions to do dastardly things in order to fulfill their “visions”. Mean Men: The Perversion of America’s Self-Made Man reveals the ...

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The Playstation Dreamworld

An excerpt from Alfie Bown’s latest book

November 16, 2017 • by Alfie Bown

Dreams are the fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish. Dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed, infantile wish. Even the first of these statements is already complex. For Freud, a wish is not just ...

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The Infant King and Washington’s Tripartite Soul

Freud, Plato, and Trump

October 18, 2017 • by Yuval Adler

In 1933 Charles Laughton won an Oscar for Alexander Korda’s The Private Life of Henry VIII. It is a bravura performance, worth revisiting. Laughton’s Henry runs around like a child who just learned how to walk. He gropes, screams, whines, and eats like a baby playing with his food. His temper ...

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A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Hope and Shame in American Identity

An “American Girl” to love

October 16, 2017 • by Stacey Novack

The song, with its adolescent breathlessness and jangly melody, is about life-altering promises and unrelenting hope, especially hope that persists in the face of disappointment. It’s a song that almost “can’t help” but generate a bouncy-kneed, happy nostalgia in the listener, and, at least for some, a mild accompanying shame. ...