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In Search of Lost Time—And Misplaced Memories

June 24, 2020 • by Sergio Infante

You are in your twenties but have lived with petit mal epilepsy your entire life. Dr. Penfield has promised you a solution: he will peel back your scalp, open up your cranium, and probe your brain with electrodes for signs of injury. He believes that your epilepsy is due to ...

In Search of Lost Time—And Misplaced Memories

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Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

An interview with Elliot Jurist

May 13, 2019 • by Elliot Jurist and Josh Maserow

In memory of Lew Aron, psychoanalyst, scholar, teacher and friend. Mentalization -- the effort to make sense of our own and others' actions, behavior, and internal states -- is something we all do. And it is a capacity that all psychotherapies aim to improve: the better we are at mentalizing, the more ...

Psychotherapy, Emotions, Communication and The Search For Truth

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How Socrates Can Help Psychotherapists

When two minds meet like steel striking flint

January 30, 2019 • by James Overholser

As the field of psychotherapy focuses more on treatment manuals and the regimented nature of clinical research, the practice risks losing the subtle nuances that guide the interactive fluidity of therapy sessions. Can clinicians combat this loss by incorporating ideals from ancient philosophy into contemporary psychotherapy? In The Socratic Method of ...

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The Tale

An interview with filmmaker Jennifer Fox about narrative and re-membering

May 26, 2018 • by Tracy Sidesinger

Jennifer Fox’s The Tale is a film about childhood sexual abuse. It is difficult. There’s no getting around that, and in fact so much of the point is to not get around it but to finally acknowledge what has always been there. But the film also offers the courage to do so, ...

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Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

The changing relationship between mind and machine

April 16, 2018 • by Kevin Rice

Whether it is an unhealthy YouTube fascination with Boston Dynamic’s robot dogs opening doors, Amazon’s Alexa on your coffee table, or Elon Musk’s ominous March 13th statement of “Mark my words -- AI is far more dangerous than nukes,” chances are the growing conversation of artificial intelligence has intruded in some way ...