Articles about Psychoanalysis

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

Prof Mark Solms on the psychoanalytic model of the mind, its relation to psychoanalytic diagnostic categories and their implications for psychotherapy

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

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

The Proust phenomenon and how this operates in the course of a psychoanalytic treatment.

Ever wonder how much can happen in just one session? This beautiful short story illustrates a man's search for a moment of connected understanding.

Psychoanalysts are seeing a sharp rise in extramarital affairs among couples. Why do we really have affairs outside marriage, and is social media making them more prevale...

Fanon, Violence, Decolonization and Corruption: An analysis!

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

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

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...

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...