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Freud’s famous, “Remembering, repeating and working through” is still at the center of psychoanalytic treatment.

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Dreams, Memories and Trauma – A Search for Transformations in Psychoanalyses
This article reports on decades of efforts to understand changes in manifest dreams in psychodynamic therapies as indicators for relevant, sustaining transformations in the inner object world of pa...
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August 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Join us this SAT AUG 2 for our next Connections and Conversations event with Mark Solms:

“Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective.”

August 2 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

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Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms - Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Psychoanalytic Inquiry's Connections and Conversation Series: Different types of narcissism: a neuropsychoanalytic perspective – Professor Mark Solms
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August 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"The history of science ... is replete with instances in which an initially liberating conceptualization, once institutionalized, becomes a barrier to progress."
(L. Eisenberg, 1962)
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Damned if I Do: Gay Men and the Wounds of Conversion Therapy."

New paper from Nick Santo now avail OPEN ACCESS here:
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Damned if I Do: Gay Men and the Wounds of Conversion Therapy
Research shows that affirmative relationships and environments have a positive impact on the mental health of LGBTQIA+ people. Yet many LGBTQIA+ individuals experience relational traumas from rejec...
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July 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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All hands on deck! "The Senate may try to vote as soon as the end of next week! We need to tell them to take Medicaid cuts out of the budget reconciliation bill. We need to tell the Senate: No cuts to Medicaid." By @autisticadvocacy.org, with contact guidelines:

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Tell the Senate - no cuts to Medicaid in their budget! - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
We’ve watched as our community put in calls, made visits, and shared their stories about why Medicaid matters. You’ve told your elected officials that this program is life-saving, vital support — and ...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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"Who knows what? Lived experience, experiential knowledge and epistemic injustice in mental health conference" is starting! www.ru.nl/en/about-u... lots of interesting papers on the programme today #epistemicinjustice #philpsy #philsky
Who knows what in mental health care? | Radboud University
This debate centers around the issue of whether and to what extent the lived experience of patients provides (complementary) knowledge. This conference brings together researchers from various philosophical disciplines to contribute to this question.
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June 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
New from Jill Gentile: "Leveraging psychoanalytic, and especially, Winnicottian theory, this essay explores the paradoxical role of hate speech: how it can perpetuate oppression but also act as a political force pressing for equality.."
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Hate Speech as the Action of Inequality: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Democracy and Social Power
This essay proposes that hate speech merits political consideration beyond society’s usual efforts to either banish or restrict, or alternatively, (as in the US context) to impose few restrictions ...
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June 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"I began hearing voices external to myself in 1983 and was hospitalized twice between Halloween night 1983 and early February 1984." So begins Claire Bien's auto-ethnographic account from our upcoming issue, "Madness Revisited: A 360 degree perspective."
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May 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Barry Magid, psychoanalyst and Zen master (& author of Ordinary Mind & Nothing is Hidden) reviews two new books on the Self: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Self: Lost and Found
Can we have experiences without a “self” that’s having them? Is my “self” something private and interior, unknowable to anybody else? How is that inner self related to my body, to other people, to ...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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“Thought is not abstract. It's all physical." - George Lakoff

The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why

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The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why
YouTube video by MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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May 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Revisiting Madness from a 360 degree perspective.

Join us for a FREE Connections & Conversations zoom event.

When?
SUN MAY 18
9am-1030am Pacific Standard Time.

Register here: www.psychoanalyticinquiry

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May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The WIlliam Alanson White Institute presents:

How is Madness Embodied in Psychoanalysis?

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SATURDAY, MAY 17th
Online from 12 Noon – 2:00PM/Eastern

Discussants: Claire Bien, Louis Sass, Daniel Posner & Vincent Stephen.
Moderators: Doris Brothers & Jon Slevoldt.
Events for May 2025 – William Alanson White Institute
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May 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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How do we actually *think* about politics?

George Lakoff in conversation with Robert Reich

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In Conversation: George Lakoff | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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April 26, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“Perspective is one of the component parts of reality. Far from being a disturbance of its fabric, it is its organizing element.”
​​​​​​​--José Ortega y Gasset
April 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Psychoanalytic Inquiry & Connections & Conversations presents:

"Encountering the Other Here and There: Trauma and Healing in Israel-Palestine."

live (free) via zoom: SUN April 27 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm PST

Registration and Event Description link: www.psychoanalyticinquiry.com/event/encoun...
April 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New substack post: A dream dialogue (or a dialogue on dreams) between Daniel Goldin and Gabriela Mann.
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Dreaming in a Traumatized World
Writer, Gabriela Mann; Editor, Daniel Goldin
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April 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A rich and remarkable philosophical book by Adrian Kind ( @philpsy.bsky.social ) on the nature of psychiatric diagnostic reasoning, in which he presents and defends a model-based reasoning account. Will have more to say soon!
March 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Going Beneath The Surface: What People Want From Therapy--by Linda Michaels of PsiAN.org
Free video seminar now available from our Connections and Conversations series:
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Psychotherapy Action Network
Psychotherapies that create meaningful change.
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March 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Nové číslo Psychoanalytic Inquiry (@psyinq.bsky.social) věnované Sidney Blattovi, člověku který popsal (a empiricky zkoumal) různé druhy depresivního prožívání a jejich vztah k osobnosti člověka. 👌https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07351690.2025.2451006
Prologue: Internalization, Self-Other Differentiation, and Relatedness: The Enduring Legacy of Sidney J. Blatt
Published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry: A Topical Journal for Mental Health Professionals (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2025)
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April 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
"Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years to the questions we have put to it." (Freud, 1920)
March 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Free/Decentralized Learning Experience!

April 12th at 9:00 – 10:30 PT AM PT
(1.5 hours)

(n.b.: March event is SOLD OUT)

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The Transgender Psychoanalysts Are Coming!: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis – Class Two - Psychoanalytic Inquiry
Psychoanalytic Inquiry's Decentralized Learning Experience: The Transgender Psychoanalysts Are Coming!: Disrupting Transphobia within Institutional Psychoanalysis
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March 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Going Beneath The Surface: What People Want From Therapy--by Linda Michaels of PsiAN.org
Free video seminar now available from our Connections and Conversations series:
vimeo.com/1014913845
Psychotherapy Action Network
Psychotherapies that create meaningful change.
PsiAN.org
March 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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🧵New paper from Louis Sass:
"The aim of this article is to assess the Lacanian account of psychosis from the standpoint of phenomenological psychopathology including recent self-disorder models; and Sass’s Madness and Modernism..." 👇
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Lacan, Psychosis, and Phenomenological Psychopathology
The aim of this article is to assess the Lacanian account of psychosis from the standpoint of phenomenological psychopathology – especially perspectives from Minkowski, Binswanger, and Blankenburg;...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM