An Aesthetic Imperative- Spyros D. Orfanos, Phd, ABPP
The rebel psychoanalyst and womanizer Otto Rank wrote his magnum opus Art and Artist in 1932. An artist himself…
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An Aesthetic Imperative – Spyros D Orfanos, PhD, ABPP
The rebel psychoanalyst and womanizer Otto Rank wrote his magnum opus Art and Artist in 1932. An artist himself…
On the Nature Of Disappearance: A Modern Existential Dilemma * Paul Lippmann, PhD
In the oncoming shadow of Hitler and Nazi Germany, Bertold Brecht wrote: “Whatever you say, don’t say it twice If…
The Future of Nostalgia – Spyros D. Orfanos
The late Svetlana Boym, a brilliant Russian and Slavic scholar, wrote a remarkable history of “hypochondria of the heart”…
(Be)longing – Almas Merchant, PhD
“Allahu Akbar!” Like every Muslim child born, these were the first sounds uttered directly into my ear. And in…
Our Brave New World by Velleda C. Ceccoli
Velleda C. Ceccoli , PhD. – Executive Committee, NYU Postdoc; on the faculties of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy…
Uncertainty and Change – Velleda C. Ceccoli
I took this photograph during one of my evening conversations with the ocean. It had been a beautiful day, sunny…
Recycling Medea – Spyros D. Orfanos
Recycling Medea I have a thing for Medea. I have a thing for most mothers, and my mother in particular,…
Whiteness Closing Ranks – Avgi Saketopoulou
In 2018, a few days before the start of an international psychoanalytic event, conference organizers sent a group email…
The Great Depression
Jessica Benjamin, PhD After the first fearful weeks of confinement under the threat of Covid19 passed, my attention…