Psychoanalysis in the News

by Molly Merson, MFT

Psychoanalysis and Post-Truth: A discussion of the evolution of politics and truth in our contemporary world. An interview between Aimée Lê, Foivos Dousos, and Jordan Osserman offers psychoanalytic complexity in considerations of conspiratorial thinking, truth, politics, and desire.

A ‘Category 5’ mental health crisis is coming. This opinion piece from a psychotherapist offers a warning, of which we all may already be aware, that the psychological effects of the pandemic will be felt for a long time to come. 

Looking Beyond: Toward a Psychoanalytic FutureThis article by Francisco González takes up how individuals and communities can move, and have moved, forward in times of catastrophic change. What is being required of us, and of psychoanalysis, to keep opening, growing, and going-on-being during this time of social upheaval, reckoning, and pandemic? (This article is available through JAPA at no cost for a limited time.)