Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens

Penis Envy as Male Phantasy

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. The American documentary Grey Gardens, directed by the Maysles brothers, is a celebrated landmark of its genre. The viewer enters the life of Edith “Big Edie” Beale and her daughter Edith “Little Edie” Beale. The peculiar couple lives in ...
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Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens

Women Count

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On Monday October 24, women in Iceland left work at 2:38 p.m. to protest the gender wage gap. The time was decided by calculating the gap percentage to the regular work day: Every day, the hours that women work ...
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Women Count

Post-Election Ghosts

I want to be able to say something about the aftermath of the election, as a psychologist, as a psychoanalyst; as a Canadian expat since 1990, who only decided to become an American citizen after George W. Bush was first elected. But most importantly as a human being. But it’s ...
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Post-Election Ghosts

Can You Text Your Way to Mental Health?

A New Approach to Therapy Raises Concerns Among Professionals

Visiting the website for a popular app which advertises confidential, anonymous, 24/7 text psychotherapy, I was struck by how similar it looked to those adult chatrooms which advertise “hot singles in your area are waiting to talk to you now.” Replace the words “hot singles” with “licensed therapists” and you ...
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Can You Text Your Way to Mental Health?

Never Tell Me The Odds

Learning from the Powerball Experiment

In the beginning of 2016, the world saw what was perhaps the largest social psychological experiment of all time. It involved more than 635,000,000 participants and was conducted across 44 states, as well as Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Washington, DC, and its results gave researchers an astonishing ...
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Never Tell Me The Odds

A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread

A Psychoanalyst’s take on Trump and Hillary’s Private Position

We are repeatedly told election 2016 is no longer an issues-based election but a question of temperament and personality. Two weeks before voting day, America's choice of a new President had devolved into a referendum on authority, leadership and sex. We are choosing the leader we imagine we want, and ...
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A Tale of Freud, Women’s Bodies and Male Dread