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“It Never Entered My Mind”

The dissociative mind in psychoanalysis

July 10, 2018 • by Philip M. Bromberg

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working with Trauma elucidates the latest theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. The volume contains meditations on the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities for the treatment of trauma and their theoretical underpinnings, as well as ...

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Separation Is Never Ending: Attachment Is a Human Right

Why 40 researchers say attachment is a basic right and separation a clear wrong

July 3, 2018 • by Howard Steele

For over 75 years, psychologists and psychiatrists have known that abrupt and/or prolonged separation can have major implications, including depression, anxiety, and behavioral disturbances. In 1952, Bowlby & Robertson argued, “There is now evidence that prolonged periods of maternal deprivation in very young children can, in some cases, give rise to extremely ...

Separation Is Never Ending: Attachment Is a Human Right

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Psychoanalysis and Cyberspace

Shifting Frames and Floating Bodies

July 2, 2018 • by Luca Caldironi

Reconsidering the Moveable Frame in Psychoanalysis: Its Function and Structure in Contemporary Psychoanalytic theory, edited by Isaac Tylim and Adrienne Harris, explores, and troubles, the idea of "the frame" at a time when the concept is undergoing both a systematic recrudescence and widespread transformation within psychoanalytic theory. It has always ...

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Why the U.S. Should Ratify the Convention on Children’s Rights

The Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families makes it clear that the U.S. needs a child rights treaty now more than ever

June 29, 2018 • by Yvonne M. Vissing

The Trump administration’s forced separation of migrant children from their parents as a way to coerce Congress to agree with its proposed immigration policies is problematic on numerous fronts. Not only is it immoral but it is also damaging for the children involved, resulting in harms that range from toxic stress and abuse, to human rights violations. It has been ...

Why the U.S. Should Ratify the Convention on Children’s Rights

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On Relational Psychoanalysis

An Interview with Emmanuel Ghent

June 26, 2018 • by Lewis Aron

We dedicate this interview to the late Jeremy Safran, a distinguished professor in the New School of Social Research's Psychology Department and a senior editor of Public Seminar, in the week of his memorial service to honor his legacy. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas ...

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A Conversation on Get Out

Black Issues in Philosophy

June 25, 2018 • by Lewis Gordon and Derefe Kimarley Chevannes

Having recently viewed Jordan Peele’s award-winning Get Out (2017), political theorist Derefe Kimarley Chevannes was prompted to discuss the film with philosopher Lewis Gordon, whose writings include discussions of race in horror films and literature. DEREFE KIMARLEY CHEVANNES: Lewis, it’s a pleasure to have this discussion with you. As I begin, ...

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Authoritarianism and the Cultic Dynamic

Traumatic Narcissism in American Politics Today

June 8, 2018 • by Daniel Shaw

I spent thirteen years of my life, including all of my thirties, as a fervent devotee of an Indian guru. I lived communally and worked full-time in the guru’s organization, until one day, after a long process I now know was me slowly coming out of dissociation, it dawned on ...

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The Spy who Psychoanalyzed Me

Psychology’s long and shameful history with torture

May 28, 2018 • by Tristan Chirico

After a highly controversial confirmation process, Gina Haspel is now director of the CIA. At the heart of the controversy surrounding her nomination were Haspel's alleged ties to the systematic torture of terrorism suspects conducted at so-called “black sites” during the Bush Era -- one of which Haspel oversaw in ...

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The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi

A Life inscribed within the crucible of the history of the psychoanalytic movement

May 9, 2018 • by Thierry Bokanowski

This is an excerpt from chapter 2 of The Modernity of Sándor Ferenczi: his historical and contemporary importance in psychoanalysis, by Thierry Bokanowski. By providing a concise yet thorough overview of the life and work of Sandor Ferenczi, The Modernity of Sandor Ferenczi seeks to help make his thought and work better known. ...

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Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects

Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer

May 1, 2018 • by Lana Lin

Public Seminar spoke to Lana Lin, author of Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects, about the genesis of the book, psychoanalysis, and art-making. Q&A with Lana Lin Public Seminar (PS): Why did you write Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer ? Lana Lin (LL): I had been training to become ...

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The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg

An excerpt from Trans-generational Trauma and the Other

April 24, 2018 • by Adrienne Harris

The Demonization of Ethel Rosenberg, by Adrienne Harris, appears in Trans-generational Trauma and the Other, a volume of essays published in 2017 psychoanalytically meditating on the question of the transgenerational transmission of trauma, metastasizing and alienated historical ghosts, and the inter-subjectivity of Big History. Public Seminar spoke with Dr Harris – who is, among many ...

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Reformed Mental Health Services for Kids Begin to Take Shape

A Center for New York City Affairs event

April 19, 2018 • by Abigail Kramer

After tense and uncertain budget negotiations, New York State will move forward with several pieces of its long-planned expansion of behavioral health services for children on Medicaid. This week, the Center for New York City Affairs hosted a panel of experts to talk about what's next for this reform: What the vision ...