Psychoanalysis in the World

This selection of articles, podcasts, magazines, and videos offer a range of information about psychoanalysis.

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Write Ups

Write Ups
Therapists Trade the Couch for the Great Outdoors
Therapists Trade the Couch for the Great Outdoors

Mental health practitioners are hiking, camping and braving the elements with their clients — all in an effort to help them connect with the Earth, and with themselves.

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“Beau is Afraid”’s Wearisome Excess
“Beau is Afraid”’s Wearisome Excess

Ari Aster’s Oedipal horror, starring Joaquin Phoenix, is filled with nervous wreckage, and leaves the unsettling sense of having stumbled upon an extended therapy session rather than a film.

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I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.
I Don’t Need to Be a ‘Good Person.’ Neither Do You.

There is no end of advice these days on how to be a good person, how to make good decisions, how to be mindful and compassionate, how to have boundaries, how to be open, how to be assertive, how not to be self-effacing, how to be politically invested, how to live in the now, how to live in a world that demands immediacy, how to think about the future, how not to think too much about the future, how not to think.

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Podcasts

All are free and available on multiple podcast services.

Ordinary Unhappiness

A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now

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Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

On and Off the Couch we will meet psychoanalysts who work in dialysis units, prenatal clinics…

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Publications to Follow

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The Psychosocial Foundation
The Psychosocial Foundation

A nonprofit educational organization that exists to advance our understanding of where the social, political, and psychological converge.

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Parapraxis Magazine
Parapraxis Magazine

A magazine devoted to psychoanalysis.

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What to Watch