by Molly Merson, MFT

The Selfish Shrink: Life With Jacques Lacan. An exposing and at times hilarious review of Catherine Millot’s recently published memoir about her relationship with Lacan, from being his analysand, to lover, to Lacanian analyst herself.

The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma. This is Junot Diaz’s very personal and moving account of being raped as a child, and the ways this trauma impacted his future relationships, including his relationship to himself and his masculinity. The piece also explores how his therapist helped him access a dissociated emotional universe inside him that opened room for healing and truth.

How Our Dreams Made Us Human. From Freud to neuroscience, the article explores how and why we dream, and how the evolution of dreaming has had a multidirectional effect on our development as human beings.