Sisyphus when he’s allowed to work from home.

…I feel that you are so well surrounded by those who are fond of you & who value your work & who try to put it into practice that you are liable to get out of touch w/ others who are doing good work but who do not happen to have come under your influence. —Winnicott (to Klein)

Inspiring words from the opening pages of Ross Ellenhorn’s inspiring PURPLE CRAYONS: THE ART OF DRAWING A LIFE libraryjournal.com/review/purple-…

“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” —MLK, the day before his death Quote from Heather Cox Richardson Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) open.substack.com/pub/heathercox…

Criticism aside, is it long past time to reassess our approach to ever worsening mental health? We're learning, painfully so, that we cannot spend our way out of every problem, that many current issues call for more social cohesion, more facilitation of trust and emotional care.

“A lot of social science is like looking for black holes; you can only see a phenomenon by what’s situated around it.” —Ross Ellenhorn

Hello friends - & (belated) here's to this year, to treading water, to balancing improbabilities (which has taken me to a very beautiful and & cold apartment in the middle of nowhere). And of course to theatre curtains, star maps, creatures in ballgowns, because why not 🤍🌹🤍

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

"The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong" Psychologists: is that better explained by the idea of “cognitive dissonance” or the psychoanalytic / commonsense idea of “denial”? Seems to me the latter? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

TAP editor Austin Ratner speaks with psychologist Sheldon Solomon on death-anxiety, terror management theory, and the crossroads of human existence tapmagazine.org/57issue2/valid… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud #ErnestBecker

TAP editor-in-chief Austin Ratner explores how the ecosystem of internet pornography increasingly acts as a laboratory confirming Freud's most iconic theory: the Oedipus Complex. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/o… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud #pornography

Alan Michael Karbelnig writes that psychoanalysts need to engage climate crisis precisely because they understand "the power of greed, of defensive processes, and the hope offered by positive triangulation" tapmagazine.org/all-articles/b… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #globalwarming

Eclipse in Brooklyn

TAP editor-in-chief Austin Ratner speaks with Ross Ellenhorn Ellenhorn about his intensive “treatment without walls” approach to helping individuals. "The medicine is social inclusion," Ellenhorn says. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/o… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage month by reposting Tati Nguyễn's profound personal essay on fleeing Vietnam as a small child as Saigon fell. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/d… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #APAHM #psychoanalysis #freud