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Democracy

Feel Better, Defeat Trump!

Some practical tips for putting your election emotions to good work

November 2, 2020 • by Leo Casey

Many of us are finding ourselves quite apprehensive, even fearful, because of what is happening with the 2020 elections and in American political life. There is value, I want to argue, in taking a moment to analyze those feelings, the role they play in the elections and what we can ...

A Dose of Forever Feelings

On Sex, Emotion, and Translating What You Feel Into Reality

February 20, 2020 • by David Stromberg

As a young man, this sense of clunkiness spread to almost everything I did, including my youthful attempts at romantic affairs. I often found myself surrounded by images of love and romance that split emotions from sex without realizing how influential they were to a psyche still very much in formation. On the one ...

How to Bring Emotion back into Psychoanalysis

An excerpt from “Minding Emotions”

May 15, 2019 • by Elliot Jurist

In memory of Lew Aron, psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher and friend. Mentalization -- the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states -- is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more ...