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As a Couples Therapist, I see the Same Destructive Patterns in our Political Discourse
We’re in a national moment of great fear and suspicion. But the principles of psychoanalysis that can help feuding couples can also help us reconcile our differences.
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.
“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.
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.
How the Writer and Critic Jacqueline Rose Puts the World on the Couch
Enlisting Freud and feminism, she reveals the hidden currents in poetry and politics alike.
We Have Reached Peak “Therapy TV”
Three critics discuss the changing role of the therapist on television, from “Frasier” and “The Sopranos” to “Shrinking” and “Couples Therapy.”
Cartoons About Therapy from the Past Century (Well, Almost)
Selections from the magazine’s deep archive of drawn neuroses.
Not Your Daddy’s Freud
A new generation of analysts and patients is embracing the father of psychoanalysis – in magazines and memes and many hours on the couch.
The Therapist Remaking Our Love Lives on TV
How Orna Guralnik, the star of “Couples Therapy,” gets the world on her couch.
What Unites Buddhism and Psychotherapy? One Therapist Has the Answer.
Despite often being lumped together these days in what gratingly gets called the “wellness sector,” psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation might be seen as almost opposite approaches to the search for peace of mind.
Lesser-Known Attachment Styles (Satire)
In psychology, attachment theory can be applied to friendships, romantic relationships, platonic relationships, and co-writing partnerships that begin as a ruse to flirt. The four main attachment styles include secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. Unsatisfied with these options? Here are some lesser-known yet important attachment styles…
Has Covid Remade Psychotherapy for Good?
Treatment by Zoom has brought unexpected benefits — will it carry over to the post-pandemic age?
In Psychotherapy, the Toilet Has Become the New Couch
Virtual sessions offer the intimacy — and comedy — of seeing patients and therapists in their personal environments.
The New Psychoanalysis
In a retrograde moment like ours, the analytic ethic provides a strong source of resistance.
Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud
Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for psychoanalysis. Is it time to get back on the couch?
Getting to Know Me
This article explains how psychodynamic therapy compares to other forms of treatment, including medication and cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT).