Psychoanalysis in the News
by Molly Merson, MFT
Misogyny on the Couch: Why It's Time to Let Psychoanalysis into Politics. Susie Orbach sheds light on what psychoanalysis has to offer politics: an understanding of relationships to and between people, groups, systems, internal objects, and histories. Psychoanalysis is well positioned to speak to what we encounter when transformation, including social change, is a painful and complex process.
Artist Recreates Gritty Details of Abandoned Buildings as a Rundown Dollhouse. This art installation offers a representation of aspects of our childhood that become ghosts in our psyches.
Carl Jung: We Are Brightness and Blackness. Can You Stand to Consider That? The author muses on what it takes for people to willingly have contact with their "shadow," and how Jung might make sense of our current political predicament.