by Molly Merson, MFT

The Limits of My Empathy for COVID Deniers. Tressie McMillan Cottom interviews psychotherapist Martha Crawford, about what might be behind COVID-19 denial from a psychoanalytic lens.

The Therapist Will See You Now. But Where? Hannah Zeavin takes up teletherapy in this article, a topic her book The Distance Cure expands on, and asks, what are our assumptions about what psychoanalysis (and the frame) must look like? What else could it look like? And where else could, and does, it exist?

Lovecraft Country Sent Michael K. Williams to the Darkest Place of His Career. Many mourned the passing of Michael K. Williams last month, and this article describes some of his experiences with therapy — and the generational racial trauma, evoked by the content of Lovecraft Country, that brought him there. (It also highlights the grief counselors on the set of Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us.)