Articles about Society

The words “transgender” and “identify as” are not neutral. They reinforce harmful ideas about identity as a choice and uphold systems that control bodies and minds. This ...

People in the psychological world try to outdo each other in espousal of progressive politics, forgetting that our own professional politics (especially Jungian and psych...

An analyst reflects on his work as a young inner-city, special education school principal while being a psychoanalytic candidate.

Punishment, violence and abuse are about power – who is big and who is not. Who receives and who perpetrates violence. We cannot speak about power in South Africa without...

Has Instagram negatively impacted your own self-perception?

The pandemic, and the changes that have resulted from it, has brought a mental health crisis we were unprepared for.

Finding the Middle Path