Publications

One could argue that Trump told a big truth to those hurt by globalization, while telling a big lie that solutions would be easy. Those who worship him must be helped to see that their rage and longing for protection blind them to reality. He does little for them except make them feel good while posing major threats. It is dangerous to worship false gods.

…As a clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, I’m often faced with untangling this question: Are people honestly unknowing—or pretending not to know?…

This is what we make conscious—the patterns that disable and limit people—the ones that give ulcers either to the individuals themselves or to recipients in their orbit.

The reverberations go well beyond the individual, fostering richer relationships, family life, and organizations. The ripple effect can help break the kinds of destructive cycles which, if left untreated, keep echoing through the generations.

In essence, women feel they’ve hit a “glass ceiling” in the home, pulling for an adversarial instead of a collaborative relationship over collective aspirations, goals and principles.

…while “major transgressions” such as sexual boundary violations have gotten a great deal of attention, “minor transgressions” of the type this panel was considering have been largely ignored, despite their being vastly more common….temptations are built into the very structure of the analytic situation. The question is not how not to be tempted, but what to do with analytic temptations.

The creators of the new DSM have seriously handicapped psychiatric diagnosis by omitting some of the most useful and widely affirmed concepts in modern psychiatry—unconscious mental processes, intrapsychic conflict, and defenses. Constructing a diagnostic system without the use of these inferred, theoretical concepts limits the nosology…It is as if physicists were to decide that they could not discuss black holes or even electrons because these are inferences derived from theory…

In this last drama, the hidden one, Cameron starred in the leading role as brilliant megalomaniac/erratic ex-spouse/erratic father… By contrast, Bigelow co-starred as the gracious and principled heroine. Fostering her win was the perception of her as a class-act—a finer person…

Would The Hurt Locker have won top Oscars over Avatar if it had been directed by a man?…Despite all of James Cameron’s riches and despite his gender, should his genius again have been rewarded?

Damon Evans certainly dropped the ball, and this former wide receiver has been swiftly punished.

Here is a clip from a day in the life of Eddie Morris, Ph.D., social worker extraordinaire, who has devised a remarkable approach for helping students in… troubled public schools.

Our goal is to be tailored, nimble, and responsive to the needs of each institute, always with an appreciation that the needs of each may differ from all others.

…the prize honors a small but growing cadre of psychoanalytic researchers whose work is crucial to the vibrancy of psychoanalysis…