Articles about Psychoanalysis

A masterful illustration of the multilayered nature of horrific traumatic experience. Contains disguised session material.

Bion’s writings on dreams claim our attention for the idea that dreaming is a variant of ‘thinking’.

Professor Mark Solms questions the ways in which psychiatry views mental disorders.

A thought provoking and penetrating glimpse into the psychoanalytic treatment of an anorexic adolescent girl.

Over the years, I have been struck by how commonly it emerges that patients have been sexually abused by their own mothers, sometimes flagrantly, sometimes in the guise o...

Why does love invariably get contaminated by hate and anger, which apparently sets out to destroy the initial intimacies of almost every couple? Why does anger and emotio...

This paper examines a specific auxiliary defensive process that enters the post-partum period in a couple. To protect her infant, a mother splits and diverts aggressive i...

Psychoanalysis is often misunderstood as outdated or distant, but in practice, it’s a deeply human, present-focused therapy that helps make sense of patterns, relationshi...

Being alone is often mistaken for emptiness or failure. Psychologically, it is far more demanding and far more revealing. Solitude can feel like falling, not because ther...

A psychoanalytic take on how we try resolve powerfully conflicting emotions towards those who matter most. Contains disguised session material.

Fanon, Violence, Decolonization and Corruption: An analysis!

For many, the lives not lived become a source of anguish and bitterness. Yet it is also true that in freeing ourselves from certain anxieties and discovering unknown aspe...