Psychoanalysis in Society

by Molly Merson, MFT

Analysis Interminable: On Janet Malcolm. This piece explores Malcolm’s life and writings as an homage to her contributions to literature, journalism, psychoanalysis, and the author’s personal growth.

Processing trauma in psychoanalysis in ‘real time’ and in dreams: the convergence of past, present, and future during COVID-19. Through exploring patients’ dreams, this analyst shares some peoples’ experience of the timelessness/time-ful-ness of COVID-19 and the milieu of racism, economic disparity, climate catastrophe, and political turmoil.

On Wanting to Change review— an inspiring vision of psychoanalysis. This review of Adam Phillips’s book ‘On Wanting to Change” explores Phillips’s work as a writer and a psychoanalyst.