Trans-Gender Psychoanalysis
In 2021, I taught a postgraduate seminar called “Trans-Gender Psychoanalysis” as part of the curriculum of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based
clinical psychology
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Addiction
Psychoanalysis has somewhat neglected the study of substance use disorders—frequently seeing them as a symptom of “the real problem” and hence not attending closely to
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Emotional avoidance, self-coherence, and psychosis: Why affective regulation is a form of relational care
Conventional wisdom holds that avoiding your emotions cuts you off from important data about yourself, but did you know that habitually flinching from feeling can
Eight Recommendations for Cultivating Dream Life
To be able to work with dreams, whether psychologically or magically, requires building a relationship with them. Many people are alienated from their dream life.
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Magical Thinking in Cultural Context
A recent New York Times article claimed that “most psychologists agree that astrology’s appeal rests largely on ‘confirmation bias’—the human tendency to seek out, recall