Contemporary Psychoanalytic Musings

Additional important lessons for individual therapists to be taken from participation (procedural learning; 'the medium is the message...

Many psychoanalysts eschew group therapy, but yesterday the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc had an experiential look at group process...

The Orphanage (2007), directed by Juan Antonio Bayona,  is about the unconscious, inadvertent, intergenerational transmission of trauma an...

  Knox gives us a neurobiological explanation for the origins of shame. Should the mother register disgust for her infant or her infant’s...

I like, as always, the poetic rhythm Winnicott offers to the reader! As I was reading Winnicott’s The capacity to be alone , I questioned w...

[Winnicott writes] ·       The capacity to be alone is a highly sophisticated phenomenon and has many contributory factors. It is closely...

As we know, trauma increases blood flow to the amygdala while decreasing perfusion to the hippocampus with the effect that procedural, emot...

Winnicott and Knox both speak to the infant’s developing sense of self and both are relational in the import for this ascribed to the envir...

Two wonderful things happened this week in NYC: Today The United Nations Security Council resolved unanimously to stem the flow of fore...

Scott Ferguson, PhD, Film Professor at USF, spoke to the “pleasure” of horror films—indulging viscerally, sensually-perceptually, and affec...