Matthew Clemente & David Goodman explore Freud’s take on desire and intimacy in their latest @psych_today piece. 🔗 Learn more here: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-hu…

“In the individual’s mental life some­ one else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first individual psychology... is at the same time social psychology.” -Freud

Love to see my Mad In America and Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics worlds collide here!

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. — Erik Erikson

We were grateful to welcome Point Park University's Brent Robbins (Brent Dean Robbins) to the CPHE lab, thanks to the coordination of our colleague Justin Karter APA Division 24. His reflections on psychology’s history and the healing power of a hermeneutic of love left a lasting impression.

"To the extent that one has access to and acceptance of one's personal dynamics, one can have a compassionate, respectful appreciation for those of others." - Nancy McWilliams

The paper distinguishes between the nuanced, often self-critical traditions of psychoanalysis and the instrumentalized language of therapy now embedded in reality TV, corporate wellness programs, and online influencer culture. Mad In America madinamerica.com/2025/04/the-ce…

In response to the linked article. 1: The rampant use of ChatGPT is due in part to a society-wide failure to value education for its own sake. By treating a pure means to an end - wealth - as a final end, we have ethically crippled a generation. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

“Psychoanalysis, for Winnicott, is a treatment aimed at the texture of experience, its richness, its felt reality, rather than at functional capacity. Sanity alone provides a shadowy, empty existence. The well-adjusted person may be missing the central features of…”

I’m a big fan of each of these authors work on psychological anthropology. It was fun to get to cover their latest article in the American Psychologist.

Alisdair MacIntyre was one of the most fruitfully provocative thinkers in the English-speaking world of the last century, especially in dismantling dominant models of social science. I am not aware of a more acid, more humorous opening to a philosophical essay. RIP.

And finally, here's a link to Claire Bien's 2016 memoir: "Hearing Voices, Living Fully: Living with the Voices in My Head." us.jkp.com/products/heari…

And yet not to be interested in something or someone - to be apparently untouched by them - must be one of the commonest and most unacknowledged of defences. — Adam Phillips Promises, Promises

Freud once said that the worst training for psychoanalysis is medical school, and the best is literature, art, history, poetry, and philosophy. :)

"The principal aim of therapy is not...an impossible state of happiness, but to...acquire steadfastness and philosophic patience in face of suffering. ...Behind a neurosis there is so often concealed all the natural and necessary suffering the patient has been unwilling to bear."

“But objectivity is full of liabilities as well. Researchers striving for objectivity tend to ignore data that cannot be operationalized, manipulated, or studied by randomized clinical trials; 🧵

Edmund #Husserl on the danger of letting the positive sciences become the sole measure of things: 'The exclusiveness with which the total worldview of modern man let itself be determined by the positive sciences & be blinded by the "prosperity" they produced ...' 1/

How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter By James Moore madinamerica.com/2025/08/how-to…