We all have problems within our personality. Patterns, defenses, learned ways of surviving emotional pain - that could at some point do us in: stop working, become too rigid, or whatever - and that often leads to anxiety or depression. It’s called the human condition ya’ll.

quite profound

This is beyond entertaining. Also a wonderful look into how children perceive the future. The last item, in particular, is/was quite prescient.

Yesterday was the 20-year anniversary of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Rarely has cinema typified psychoanalysis so poignantly. It makes our "11 Oedipal films" list--movies you can write home to mom about! tapmagazine.org/all-articles/b… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

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

The new issue of TAP is live, marking the arrival of spring with themes of love, sex, desire, addiction. We explore the necessity and the difficulty of human togetherness. Where there are flowers, there are bees. tapmagazine.org American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

“Does the therapist have an ethical obligation to help patients exhaust all possibilities before entertaining a separation or divorce?” asks Enrico Gnaulati in his TAP article "Can psychoanalysis save marriage?" tapmagazine.org/all-articles/c… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

In this personal essay on relationship addition, Drew Villano writes, "I created a cycle which culminated in a frantic need to ensure the relationship survived even if it meant I wouldn’t.” tapmagazine.org/all-articles/c… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

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

Psychoanalysis after Freud: Donald Winnicott and ‘Playing and Reality’. This online course with Keith Barrett will focus on Winnicott’s celebrated 1971 text ‘Playing and Reality’. 12 April. Book now! freud.org.uk/event/psychoan…

Henry Zvi Lothane, MD, writes about the untold history of psychoanalysis-pioneer Sabina Spielrein, exploring her transformative relationship with Carl Jung. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/u… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud #Jung

TAP contributor @MikeLICSW confronts the costs and exclusions of psychoanalytic practice. “I’m crying because all you capital-P psychoanalysts are always going to think of me as a clumsy thief who needs more education." tapmagazine.org/all-articles/i… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis

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

Happy 168th birthday Sigmund! American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther explores the connections between psychoanalysis and deep sea diving. "Would psychoanalytic practice change if more analysts self-consciously viewed themselves as diving rather than digging?" tapmagazine.org/all-articles/d… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

In honor of Anthony Bourdain's birthday this week, we are reposting this article by Mitch Moxley, describing how grafting "years of my analysis" onto Bourdain's story fueled his creative process. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/t… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud #anthonybourdain

TAP speaks with alt-rock icon kristin hersh of Throwing Muses about her creative process, her struggles with PTSD and dissociative disorder, and how EMDR therapy helped her fully integrate. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/h… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud

In "resisting the Trump contagion," psychiatrist Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv talks about Trump's “symbiotic” relationship with his supporters, the nature of violence, and the ethics of speaking up. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/r… American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) #psychoanalysis #Freud