Articles about Theory

Freud and Lacan took psychoanalysis in sharply different directions. We examine where they diverged, how Lacan’s revisions respond to critiques of Freud, and why those di...

How psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides in-depth treatment for challenging psychological conditions and its suitability for deep-seated emotional issues and its unique ...

Choosing a therapist with an approach philosophy aligned to your worldview can enhance the therapeutic journey. Explore how different approaches offer unique avenues for ...

An interview With James Grotstein.

A brief exploration of superego.

It is a little known fact that Bill Wilson (who suffered, like James, with manic-depressive illness through the course of his life) called out on his deathbed for “three ...

Part Two - Accessing the chemistry of consciousness and emotion, by Ian Weinberg | Practicing neurosurgeon

Part One - The neuro-anatomy and associated neuro-physiology of the core components of memory, emotion and motivation, by Ian Weinberg | Practicing neurosurgeon

Is violence, that is political violence as opposed to pathological violence, ever justified?

Malignant narcissism develops in the psyche of the individual by preventing him from attaching to the other.

In George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, the Devil asks Don Juan why he works so hard to understand himself. His evocative reply: “Why, to be able to choose the path of...

By turning our attention to feeling, through somatic self-inquiry, we can learn to “be with” and describe an experience rather than trying to “understand it” or more impo...