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Appropriate A hot play about race that may get us better than we are comfortable at being got...
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Amadeus Thank God for tragedies.
American Hustle A posting mostly on Trump, this also briefly reviews the film.
Arrival Make contact with the world around you
August: Osage County - The Play's the Thing (also in plays)
The Avengers Age of Ultron - Heroic Narcissism
Avengers End Game We are, in the end, human after all...
Battle of the Sexes A Biopic allows me to explore my own transference to an early idol
American Hustle A posting mostly on Trump, this also briefly reviews the film.
Arrival Make contact with the world around you
August: Osage County - The Play's the Thing (also in plays)
The Avengers Age of Ultron - Heroic Narcissism
Avengers End Game We are, in the end, human after all...
Battle of the Sexes A Biopic allows me to explore my own transference to an early idol
Belfast A movie about how love sets the stage for life.
Bernie- Jack Black is Too Nice
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Birdcage, and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdcage, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdman - more narcissism at the movies
The Big Lebowski - A Cult Classic
Bernie- Jack Black is Too Nice
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Birdcage, and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdcage, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Dirty Dancing - Sex and Coming of Age
Birdman - more narcissism at the movies
The Big Lebowski - A Cult Classic
The Big Sleep Bogey is the reluctant detective...
BlackKklansman and Green Book: a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
The Black Panther Marvel's narcissistically healthy hero.
BlackKklansman and Green Book: a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
The Black Panther Marvel's narcissistically healthy hero.
The Black Swan Madness and mental illness are not the same thing...
Blue Jasmine - What is Woody Allen revealing about himself when he talks about women?
Das Boot A German take on guilt - and the necessity of government... Despite the risks.
Bottle Shock Dreaming big dreams in the early California Wine Trade
Bride of Frankenstein Who knew horror could be so human?
Caché A French take on guilt
Captain Fantastic A (non super-hero) fantasy about being the perfect parent.
Captain Marvel is a superhero who helps us question racial and gender identity.
Carol A movie about Homosexuality, Culture and Telling
Casablanca My Mom's play helps me understand the movie - and our exceptionalism.
Cats, the Trailer The movie trailer causes me to reminisce about the musical play...
Blue Jasmine - What is Woody Allen revealing about himself when he talks about women?
Das Boot A German take on guilt - and the necessity of government... Despite the risks.
Bottle Shock Dreaming big dreams in the early California Wine Trade
Bride of Frankenstein Who knew horror could be so human?
Caché A French take on guilt
Captain Fantastic A (non super-hero) fantasy about being the perfect parent.
Captain Marvel is a superhero who helps us question racial and gender identity.
Carol A movie about Homosexuality, Culture and Telling
Casablanca My Mom's play helps me understand the movie - and our exceptionalism.
Cats, the Trailer The movie trailer causes me to reminisce about the musical play...
Conclave How to choose a leader - and an analyst...
Copenhagen - Quantum Mechanics
The Crucible - Going Back to High School
Copenhagen - Quantum Mechanics
The Crucible - Going Back to High School
Da 5 Bloods Vietnam, race, and the brutality of a war that's never over.
The Death of Stalin A Black Comedy that helps us be entertained by terrifying material.
Dirty Dancing, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Birdcage Sex and Coming of Age
The Death of Stalin A Black Comedy that helps us be entertained by terrifying material.
Dirty Dancing, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Birdcage Sex and Coming of Age
Diva A time travel back to my favorite movie in 1981.
Don Juan DeMarco A parable of psychological treatment and aging
Echo in the Canyon A documentary about the Rock Scene in Laurel Canyon and Creativity.
Don Juan DeMarco A parable of psychological treatment and aging
Echo in the Canyon A documentary about the Rock Scene in Laurel Canyon and Creativity.
Elvis The Hagiography that cements the white man's self love in place.
The English Patient A movie of love and loss speaks to the experience of a reunion.
Escape from Alcatraz Truish story
The English Patient A movie of love and loss speaks to the experience of a reunion.
Escape from Alcatraz Truish story
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Truth in farce!
Eye in the Sky Alan Rickman's final performance: A movie about drone warfare
Eye in the Sky Alan Rickman's final performance: A movie about drone warfare
The Fabelmans. What's in a name?
The Favorite is a film about Queen Anne's two female lovers and their fight for power over her.
Florence Foster Jenkins: How do we live with limitations?
The Founder McDonald's founder Ray Kroc epitomizes all that is the American Dream/Nightmare
Fences August Wilson's modern tragedy
Free Solo What does it cost to have the freedom to solo climb a mountain without support?
Get Low - A Quirky Independent Film
Get Out The Horror of Racism
The Favorite is a film about Queen Anne's two female lovers and their fight for power over her.
Florence Foster Jenkins: How do we live with limitations?
The Founder McDonald's founder Ray Kroc epitomizes all that is the American Dream/Nightmare
Fences August Wilson's modern tragedy
Free Solo What does it cost to have the freedom to solo climb a mountain without support?
Get Low - A Quirky Independent Film
Get Out The Horror of Racism
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Are sex and love necessarily linked?
Green Book and BlackKklansman a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
Hamlet Branagh's 1969 masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in plays).
Her - The Therapeutic Relationship
The Help - Kathryn Stockett's Book and the Movie - Race and Consciousness
Green Book and BlackKklansman a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one.
Hamlet Branagh's 1969 masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in plays).
Her - The Therapeutic Relationship
The Help - Kathryn Stockett's Book and the Movie - Race and Consciousness
Hit Man - Life's complications are what makes life interesting.
Hope Springs - Marital Therapy
The Hunger Games A Kid's Film Proves to be Useful to an Adult
Inception Dreams as the basis for an action film - can we love someone who can't love us?
The Irishman is a gangster film that, I believe, reveals us all to be gangsters.
Hope Springs - Marital Therapy
The Hunger Games A Kid's Film Proves to be Useful to an Adult
Inception Dreams as the basis for an action film - can we love someone who can't love us?
The Irishman is a gangster film that, I believe, reveals us all to be gangsters.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Charlie Kaufman's creepy film is a dream.
Inside Out - Pixar's Idea of the Mind
Inside Out - Pixar's Idea of the Mind
Inside Out 2 - Pixar's Development mirrors Riley's (and my) understanding of feelings.
Interstellar - Exploring our Fears in Outer Space
The Invention of Lying A world where no one lies? What would it look like?
It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Is Mr. Rogers creepy?
Jaws - Finally Watching a Classic
Joker A film that is surprisingly poignant...
Life of Pi - Life Imitates Art
Interstellar - Exploring our Fears in Outer Space
The Invention of Lying A world where no one lies? What would it look like?
It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Is Mr. Rogers creepy?
Jaws - Finally Watching a Classic
Joker A film that is surprisingly poignant...
Life of Pi - Life Imitates Art
The Lost Daughter Maggie Gyllenhaal directs a maternal meditation.
Love Actually - A Holiday Tradition
Lucy A shoot 'em up
Love Actually - A Holiday Tradition
Lucy A shoot 'em up
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Ugliness of race exposed by giftedness...
The Madness of King George is a 1994 film about the loss of executive function.
The Madness of King George is a 1994 film about the loss of executive function.
Maestro Leonard Bernstein's crazy love life is one we can all identify with...
The Magnificent Seven (Old School) A man's world... or what passes for it...
A Man Called Ove A Swedish romantic comedy about a curmudgeon - also in books.
Marriage Story is the title of a film that purports to be about divorce...
Medea Timely television movie from 1980's Denmark about the oppression of women.
Midnight In Paris Can We Appreciate What We Have?
Midnight In Paris Redux: seen through the eyes of Covid-19. (Also in Covid chronicles)
Moonlight Coming of Age in an American Ghetto
The Magnificent Seven (Old School) A man's world... or what passes for it...
A Man Called Ove A Swedish romantic comedy about a curmudgeon - also in books.
Marriage Story is the title of a film that purports to be about divorce...
Medea Timely television movie from 1980's Denmark about the oppression of women.
Midnight In Paris Can We Appreciate What We Have?
Midnight In Paris Redux: seen through the eyes of Covid-19. (Also in Covid chronicles)
Moonlight Coming of Age in an American Ghetto
My Octopus Teacher Psychotherapy under the sea
Night at the Museum III - Goodbye to Robin Williams
Noah - A Modern Midrash
Night at the Museum III - Goodbye to Robin Williams
Noah - A Modern Midrash
Nomadland A dream of nomadic life that hides nightmares...
Nope Jordan Peele uses horror (again) to unmask racism (I think...)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A personal favorite (Also in Books)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A personal favorite (Also in Books)
Oppenheimer A surprising blockbuster about good vs. evil.
Parasite is a rich film we discussed in class - and had multiple ways to see it.
Paterson A movie about living the poetic life
Pavarotti A documentary film by Ron Howard (Also in opera)
Philomena An Irish Catholic Judi Dench learns about her past - and teaches us about anger.
Parasite is a rich film we discussed in class - and had multiple ways to see it.
Paterson A movie about living the poetic life
Pavarotti A documentary film by Ron Howard (Also in opera)
Philomena An Irish Catholic Judi Dench learns about her past - and teaches us about anger.
Poor Things Can women's sexuality inform a college classroom?
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion's reflection on gender roles.
The Professor and the Madman is Sean Penn's depiction of a man going in and out of paranoia.
Psycho Horror has to do (at its best) with what lies inside us.
The Queen of Versailles - A Documentary about Empty Wealth
RBG The documentary film where Ruth Bader Ginsburg psychoanalyzes to achieve justice.
Rear Window Hitchcock's masterpiece helps us peak at the male gaze with new eyes.
The Professor and the Madman is Sean Penn's depiction of a man going in and out of paranoia.
Psycho Horror has to do (at its best) with what lies inside us.
The Queen of Versailles - A Documentary about Empty Wealth
RBG The documentary film where Ruth Bader Ginsburg psychoanalyzes to achieve justice.
Rear Window Hitchcock's masterpiece helps us peak at the male gaze with new eyes.
The Report The CIA's torture is tracked down by the Senate.
Seven Samurai Kurosawa's classic film that is starkly anti-war and anti-violence.
Saving Mr. Banks Disney's wooing of P.L.Travers to put Mary Poppins on The Big Screen
Selma Martin Luther King's March for Voter's Rights
Shakespeare in Love - Was Will from Stratford?
The Shape of Water How do we connect with otherness?
Shine Music and Failures of Trust or A Schizophrenic Virtuoso
Silver Linings Playbook - And a Poetry Slam
Saving Mr. Banks Disney's wooing of P.L.Travers to put Mary Poppins on The Big Screen
Selma Martin Luther King's March for Voter's Rights
Shakespeare in Love - Was Will from Stratford?
The Shape of Water How do we connect with otherness?
Shine Music and Failures of Trust or A Schizophrenic Virtuoso
Silver Linings Playbook - And a Poetry Slam
Social Dilemma Social media should be governed!
Soul Pixar uses death to teach us about how to live.
Spotlight shines a light on Boston's shame and Donald Trump
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Universal themes come into question
Star Wars - The Last Jedi Disenchantment with limited power...
Steve Jobs through the eyes of Aaron Sorkin and Victor Strecher - The RP finds Vulnerability
Spotlight shines a light on Boston's shame and Donald Trump
Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Universal themes come into question
Star Wars - The Last Jedi Disenchantment with limited power...
Steve Jobs through the eyes of Aaron Sorkin and Victor Strecher - The RP finds Vulnerability
Stranger Than Fiction Will Farrell makes being human seem possible
Stutz A movie about therapy made by a patient raise all kinds of questions
The Taming of the Shrew Reviewed along with 10 things I hate about you
The Taming of the Shrew Reviewed along with 10 things I hate about you
Tar A complicated film about cancel culture and the genius of being human.
The Tender Bar A good movie that helps me understand a better one: Belfast.
10 Things I hate about You A RomCom based on Shakespeare's Shrew (same link as above)
Three Identical Strangers is a documentary about triplets separated at birth. Nature/nurture anyone?
10 Things I hate about You A RomCom based on Shakespeare's Shrew (same link as above)
Three Identical Strangers is a documentary about triplets separated at birth. Nature/nurture anyone?
The Trial of the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin teaches us about power and dissent
Amy Schumer's Trainwreck - Morality and Integrity
Trumbo The story of how to win an Oscar while on the Blacklist
The Two Popes Can ideals really change who it is that we are?
Trumbo The story of how to win an Oscar while on the Blacklist
The Two Popes Can ideals really change who it is that we are?
Vertigo Hitchcock's masterpiece as seen through Freud's essay on the uncanny.
Vice This film contributes to the problem it proposes to address
War Machine Brad Pitt's well intentioned but failed movie questioning counterinsurgency
Vice This film contributes to the problem it proposes to address
War Machine Brad Pitt's well intentioned but failed movie questioning counterinsurgency
White Noise DeLillo's postmodern view of the well organized chaos of the world we live in.
Wonder Woman Does what Brad Pitt's War Machine could not...
Y Tu Mama Tambien Adolescent sexuality awakens much more than prurient interest.
Amok Time Remembering Leonard Nemoy and Star Trek
Wonder Woman Does what Brad Pitt's War Machine could not...
Y Tu Mama Tambien Adolescent sexuality awakens much more than prurient interest.
TELEVISION SHOWS AND SERIES: (Alpha by Title)
Amok Time Remembering Leonard Nemoy and Star Trek
The Bear Culture change requires that individuals change.
Call My Agent: Dix Pour Cent The French, it turns out, have a nice sense of humor and life...
The Crown: Edward VIII on The Crown The anti-Elizabeth
Dead To Me Netflix first season is surprisingly like the unfolding that takes place in therapy.
Dead To Me Netflix first season is surprisingly like the unfolding that takes place in therapy.
Dead to Me Season 2 articulates why guilt accompanies loss and how mourning frees us.
Downton Abbey Nostalgia draws us back to a simpler time.
Episodes Matt LeBlanc's narcissistic vehicle is a guilty pleasure.
Grace and Frankie Netflix and Sexual Orientation for the Boomer Crowd
Episodes Matt LeBlanc's narcissistic vehicle is a guilty pleasure.
Grace and Frankie Netflix and Sexual Orientation for the Boomer Crowd
The Great Hulu's Catherine The Great captures something essential though not biographical
Hacks The HBO series with to unlikeable characters that I could identify with.
Halston An appreciation of a new art form in a flawed biopic series.
Hamilton! on Television A different experience four years later...
Hannah Gadsby's Nanette Comedy reflects on itself.
House of Cards Art presents a scary vision of life
Hannah Gadsby's Nanette Comedy reflects on itself.
House of Cards Art presents a scary vision of life
House of Cards Final Season Must we fight psychopathy with psychopathy?
The Lying Life of Adults The movie brings the book to life.
Madame Secretary A complex series, but still not as complicated as real life...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a cry for action in our times.
Medici Netflix' first two seasons of this series.
Medici Season 3: Lorenzo the Magnificent Neurotic - not narcissistic.
Mad Men The lies at the center of the American Dream
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction David Letterman's series on Netflix.
The Newsroom Aaron Sorkin's picture of Modern Journalism
Psi A Brazilian Psychoanalyst Practices the Craft on HBO
Madame Secretary A complex series, but still not as complicated as real life...
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a cry for action in our times.
Medici Netflix' first two seasons of this series.
Medici Season 3: Lorenzo the Magnificent Neurotic - not narcissistic.
Mad Men The lies at the center of the American Dream
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction David Letterman's series on Netflix.
The Newsroom Aaron Sorkin's picture of Modern Journalism
Psi A Brazilian Psychoanalyst Practices the Craft on HBO
Schitt's Creek The Sitcom revisioned as a developmental arc.
Seinfeld Morality and Music in the unlikeliest of places.
Seinfeld Morality and Music in the unlikeliest of places.
Severed Work life balance is hard enough when you can remember...
Sex Education Sex can be an expression of intimacy.
Sherlock explores the mystery at the heart of mystery.
Shtisel Ultraorthodox Judaism in Jerusalem.
Star Trek See Amok Time above.
Succession Why can't I look away from this train wreck?
The Tiger King Narcissism and Psychopathy.
Transparent Gender changes shake things up.
Unorthodox Rules interfere with intimacy.
The West Wing Executive Functioning.
The Tiger King Narcissism and Psychopathy.
Transparent Gender changes shake things up.
Unorthodox Rules interfere with intimacy.
The West Wing Executive Functioning.
PLAYS AND MUSICALS (Alpha by Title):
Appropriate A hot play about race that may get us better than we are comfortable at being got...
A Midsummer Night's Dream The comedy (rightly) makes light of serious business.
August: Osage County The Play's the Thing (also listed in movies)
Casablanca My Mom wrote and directed a play about the movie - and American Exceptionalism
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time (Also in books)
A Delicate Balance A star studded evening - and a talk by Jonathan Lear referenced elsewhere
Fences Though I wrote about the movie - it felt like a night at the Theater.
Frank Lloyd Wright A play co-written and directed by the Reluctant Mother
Freud's Last Session by Armand Nicholi - also in Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Glass Menagerie Kirsten Dahl discusses Females Treating Adolescents
Hamilton! Lin -Manuel Miranda (weirdly) does the Reluctant Psychoanalyst Proud
POPULAR BOOKS: (Alpha by title)
84 Charing Cross This delightful record of a correspondence is like unto an ideal analysis.
1984 George Orwell's dystopia and the power of language.
About Grace* Anthony Doerr's Novel about the perils of parenting
August: Osage County The Play's the Thing (also listed in movies)
Casablanca My Mom wrote and directed a play about the movie - and American Exceptionalism
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time (Also in books)
A Delicate Balance A star studded evening - and a talk by Jonathan Lear referenced elsewhere
Fences Though I wrote about the movie - it felt like a night at the Theater.
Frank Lloyd Wright A play co-written and directed by the Reluctant Mother
Freud's Last Session by Armand Nicholi - also in Psychoanalysis and Religion
The Glass Menagerie Kirsten Dahl discusses Females Treating Adolescents
Hamilton! Lin -Manuel Miranda (weirdly) does the Reluctant Psychoanalyst Proud
Hamilton! on Television A different experience four years later... (also in T.V.)
Hamlet Branagh's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in films)
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
School of Rock Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and oppression
Seminar Starring Alan Rickman as the generative teacher from hell
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's bloodiest production illustrates projection
Hamlet Branagh's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in films)
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
School of Rock Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and oppression
Seminar Starring Alan Rickman as the generative teacher from hell
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's bloodiest production illustrates projection
ALL THINGS SHAKESPEARE (All are listed elsewhere as well...)
A Midsummer Night's Dream The comedy (rightly) makes light of serious business.
Hamlet Branagh's masterful interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece (also in films)
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell's description of the feminine in Shakespeare
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
King Lear A flawed production starring Glenda Jackson illuminates the complexities of this play
Lady MacBeth and her Pal Megan Comedy by Megan Gogerty at the Fringe Festival
Romeo and Juliet The Opera!
Shakespeare By Another Name Mark Anderson's case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Love - Was Will from Stratford?
The Taming of the Shrew Reviewed along with 10 things I hate about you
Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's bloodiest production illustrates projection
POPULAR BOOKS: (Alpha by title)
84 Charing Cross This delightful record of a correspondence is like unto an ideal analysis.
1984 George Orwell's dystopia and the power of language.
About Grace* Anthony Doerr's Novel about the perils of parenting
A Farewell to Arms Hemingway's brilliant and possibly deeply flawed novel about war
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood's dark vision of what it is like to be a woman in a man's world.
All the Light We Cannot See** Anthony Doerr's Book of World War II France
American Pastoral** Philip Roth
American Pastoral Redux** Because once, apparently, is not enough
2017 APsA Convention - Aktar, Powell, and Donald Trump
An Accident of Hope Dawn Skorczewski details the treatment and poetry of Anne Sexton
Attachment and Psychoanalysis A brief post on some research I have done.
Becoming Freud A biography by Adam Phillips
The Conscious Id Mark Solms paper on a Neurological Model of the Mind
Civilization and Its Discontents A review of a classic Freudian Paper
Kirsten Dahl discusses The Glass Menagerie as a means of understanding adolescent boys
Hannah Decker's Freud, Dora, and Vienna, 1900
Antonio Damasio's Strange Order of Things clarifies the importance of feelings.
Damasio and Solms at the 2020 Psychoanalytic Meetings.
Freud's Papers on Technique An opportunity to think about empathy
Gender and Sexual Object Report from a Convention
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood's dark vision of what it is like to be a woman in a man's world.
All the Light We Cannot See** Anthony Doerr's Book of World War II France
American Pastoral** Philip Roth
American Pastoral Redux** Because once, apparently, is not enough
Americanah Adoche helps us see race in the U.S. through the eyes of a Nigerian.
Angle of Repose** Wallace Stegner
Anything is Possible* Elizabeth Strout's honest, but therefore jaded look at life
Angle of Repose** Wallace Stegner
Anything is Possible* Elizabeth Strout's honest, but therefore jaded look at life
Asymmetry Lisa Halliday's luminous novel about power imbalance in relationships.
Asymmetry II. I liked this book so much I posted on it twice.
Autism and Being Human A New York Times Sunday Magazine article
Asymmetry II. I liked this book so much I posted on it twice.
Autism and Being Human A New York Times Sunday Magazine article
Begin Again Eddie Gaude, Jr.'s reflections on Trump through the eyes of James Baldwin
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates memoir is a psychoanalytic masterpiece
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers* Katherine Boo writes about the poorest of the poor
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - Heroism and Team Sports
The Brave Cowboy Edward Abbey's vision of the west as a now gone place.
Canada* by Richard Ford
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates memoir is a psychoanalytic masterpiece
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers* Katherine Boo writes about the poorest of the poor
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown - Heroism and Team Sports
The Brave Cowboy Edward Abbey's vision of the west as a now gone place.
Canada* by Richard Ford
Cloud Cuckoo Land* Anthony Doerr's ode to storytelling.
The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese's Great Book - or is it?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Also in Plays)
Dear Life*** Alice Munro's short stories
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Also in Plays)
Dear Life*** Alice Munro's short stories
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
The Dutch House Ann Patchett's story of a family growing into their house.
Educated Tara Westover's account of growing up in tight knit craziness.
Educated Tara Westover's account of growing up in tight knit craziness.
Empire of Pain Patrick Keefe's take on the Sackler induced Oxycontin crisis
Eragon Christopher Paolini writes fantasy
Ethan Frome* Edith Wharton's reflection on the costs of passion
Euphoria Margaret Meade and Anthropology are Cool
Finding Nouf Zoe Ferraris imagines the life of a Saudi woman
Fourth of July Creek Antiheroes in the mountains of Montana by Smith Henderson
Eragon Christopher Paolini writes fantasy
Ethan Frome* Edith Wharton's reflection on the costs of passion
Euphoria Margaret Meade and Anthropology are Cool
Finding Nouf Zoe Ferraris imagines the life of a Saudi woman
Fourth of July Creek Antiheroes in the mountains of Montana by Smith Henderson
The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman teaches us about Brains.
These Ghosts are Family Maisy Card's debut novel induces trauma in the reader
Go Set a Watchman* Harper Lee
The Golden Son A light summer read about culture change
The Goldfinch** Donna Tartt's novel about art and trauma
Go Set a Watchman* Harper Lee
The Golden Son A light summer read about culture change
The Goldfinch** Donna Tartt's novel about art and trauma
Hamnet Maggie O'Farrell's description of the feminine in Shakespeare
The Help Kathryn Stockett's Debut Novel about Race Relations in the South in the 60's
Henrietta Lacks' HeLa Cells Rebecca Skloot reveals the life of the woman whose cells are ubiquitous
Hermann Rorschach This biography is wonderful, but also tough on psychoanalysis...
HillBilly Elegy J.D. Vance's Memoir about growing up Appalachian - and what saved him.
The Hobbit Tolkien's tale includes the warmth of a father telling his children a story.
The Help Kathryn Stockett's Debut Novel about Race Relations in the South in the 60's
Henrietta Lacks' HeLa Cells Rebecca Skloot reveals the life of the woman whose cells are ubiquitous
Hermann Rorschach This biography is wonderful, but also tough on psychoanalysis...
HillBilly Elegy J.D. Vance's Memoir about growing up Appalachian - and what saved him.
The Hobbit Tolkien's tale includes the warmth of a father telling his children a story.
Homeland Elegies* Ayad Akhtar's child of immigrants critique of America and Islam
Horse Geraldine Brooks' novel of the horse Lexington goes awry because of fantasy.
In the Heart of the Sea Nantucket Whalers lost at sea - aren't we all afraid of being just that?
Justine Lawrence Durrell
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. LeGuin's dream of the future that we are living in.
Life After Life Kate Atkinson's Novel
Life of Pi Also in Movies
Lila* by Marilynne Robinson
In the Heart of the Sea Nantucket Whalers lost at sea - aren't we all afraid of being just that?
Justine Lawrence Durrell
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. LeGuin's dream of the future that we are living in.
Life After Life Kate Atkinson's Novel
Life of Pi Also in Movies
Lila* by Marilynne Robinson
The Lotus Eaters Tatjana Soli's novel about a Vietnam War Female Photographer
Lowland* Jhumpa Lahiri's book about isolation
Lowland* Jhumpa Lahiri's book about isolation
The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante's description of triangulation.
Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaram's book about parent's attachment to children.
A Man Called Ove A Swedish book about a 2 dimensional curmudgeon - also in films
March The Graphic Novels/Memoirs of John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement.
The Marriage Plot* Jeffrey Eugenides
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Mrs. Bridge Evan Connell writes about the country club life of the 1930s
My Cubs: A Love Story NPR's Scott Simon, a Chicago native, talks about winning...
My Name Is Lucy Barton* Elizabeth Strout's book about loneliness and the ties that bind.
Lucky Boy Shanthi Sekaram's book about parent's attachment to children.
A Man Called Ove A Swedish book about a 2 dimensional curmudgeon - also in films
March The Graphic Novels/Memoirs of John Lewis and the Civil Rights Movement.
The Marriage Plot* Jeffrey Eugenides
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Mrs. Bridge Evan Connell writes about the country club life of the 1930s
My Cubs: A Love Story NPR's Scott Simon, a Chicago native, talks about winning...
My Name Is Lucy Barton* Elizabeth Strout's book about loneliness and the ties that bind.
News of the World. Heaven help the movie makers...
Night Hawks Charles Johnson's Short Stories about being marginalized (and Buddhist).
Olive Kitteridge** Elizabeth Strout has helped me teach personality theory.
Night Hawks Charles Johnson's Short Stories about being marginalized (and Buddhist).
Olive Kitteridge** Elizabeth Strout has helped me teach personality theory.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong's story about language binds us together.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest A personal favorite (also in Movies)
Open by Andre Agassi
Orphan Master's Son** by Adam Johnson
Our Portion Phil Terman's Collected Poetry
The Overstory.** Richard Powers' book about trees and our relationship to them.
Pachinko. Min Jin Lee's book about Korean Immigrants to Japan and shame and repression.
Open by Andre Agassi
Orphan Master's Son** by Adam Johnson
Our Portion Phil Terman's Collected Poetry
The Overstory.** Richard Powers' book about trees and our relationship to them.
Pachinko. Min Jin Lee's book about Korean Immigrants to Japan and shame and repression.
The Passenger and Stella Maris. Cormac McCarthy's final take on the world.
A Pearl in the Storm Tory Murden McLure Rows across the Atlantic
Plato's Meno Socrates takes on a recalcitrant interlocutor.
Pym Nat Johnson's African Americans travel to a weird Antarctic Utopia
The Redbreast Jo Nesbo's Norwegian Detective Harry Hole
A Pearl in the Storm Tory Murden McLure Rows across the Atlantic
Plato's Meno Socrates takes on a recalcitrant interlocutor.
Pym Nat Johnson's African Americans travel to a weird Antarctic Utopia
The Redbreast Jo Nesbo's Norwegian Detective Harry Hole
Room Emma Donoghue's tale of protective love
The Serpent King Young Adult literature we should read - and think about.
Shadow Divers A book about deep sea diving - I compare it to the Magnificent Seven
Shakespeare By Another Name Mark Anderson's case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare
State of Wonder Ann Patchett
The Serpent King Young Adult literature we should read - and think about.
Shadow Divers A book about deep sea diving - I compare it to the Magnificent Seven
Shakespeare By Another Name Mark Anderson's case for Edward de Vere as Shakespeare
State of Wonder Ann Patchett
Stella Maris and The Passenger (Also under The Passenger) Cormac McCarthy on mortality.
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry A self consciously told tale of running a bookstore
Straight Man Richard Russo's absurd book about teaching at a college
Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry A self consciously told tale of running a bookstore
Straight Man Richard Russo's absurd book about teaching at a college
Stutz Jonah Hill's documentary about his own psychotherapy and psychotherapist.
The Submission by Amy Waldman - A Nominal Muslim proposes a 9/11 memorial
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway's classic still has the power to stir.
The Sympathizer** A confessional novel about Viet Nam becomes an analogy for a psychoanalysis.
The Submission by Amy Waldman - A Nominal Muslim proposes a 9/11 memorial
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway's classic still has the power to stir.
The Sympathizer** A confessional novel about Viet Nam becomes an analogy for a psychoanalysis.
Table for Two Amor Towles is trying to reinvent himself, but that is difficult to do.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyles, Jesuit Priest, Walks the Talk
Thank You for Being Late Thomas Friedman's Supernova - the confluence of smart phones & AI
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyles, Jesuit Priest, Walks the Talk
Thank You for Being Late Thomas Friedman's Supernova - the confluence of smart phones & AI
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham's book allows me to compare J & Hamilton
Tom Lake Does a fictional memoir tell us more than a reality based one?
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Gaming is fantasy, not play
The Topeka School A book about language and its failure to bind us together.
The Topeka School A book about language and its failure to bind us together.
Trust** This novel - perhaps intended as a feminist revolt - is read as tragedy.
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennet's novel of identity.
The Vegetarian Han Kang's Booker Prize winning meditation on culture and madness in Korea.
Visitation Street Ivy Pochoda's mystery is a beautiful view of mourning
War of Two John Sedwick's account of the Hamilton/Burr duel and the founding of the USA.
War of Two John Sedwick's account of the Hamilton/Burr duel and the founding of the USA.
Why Fish Don't Exist Lulu Miller's memoir and expose of David Starr Jordan.
The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan's book about the dust bowl helps us appreciate bonds that tie.
Young God Poverty, Psychopathy, and Youth
Zero K Don DeLillo's meditation on cryogenics and life allows for a conversation with my son.
*Written by a Pulitzer Prize winner
**Pulitzer Prize winning book
*** Written by a Nobel Prize winner
PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS, TALKS, AND PAPERS: (Alpha by title)
The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan's book about the dust bowl helps us appreciate bonds that tie.
Young God Poverty, Psychopathy, and Youth
Zero K Don DeLillo's meditation on cryogenics and life allows for a conversation with my son.
*Written by a Pulitzer Prize winner
**Pulitzer Prize winning book
*** Written by a Nobel Prize winner
PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS, TALKS, AND PAPERS: (Alpha by title)
2017 APsA Convention - Aktar, Powell, and Donald Trump
An Accident of Hope Dawn Skorczewski details the treatment and poetry of Anne Sexton
Attachment and Psychoanalysis A brief post on some research I have done.
Becoming Freud A biography by Adam Phillips
The Conscious Id Mark Solms paper on a Neurological Model of the Mind
Civilization and Its Discontents A review of a classic Freudian Paper
Kirsten Dahl discusses The Glass Menagerie as a means of understanding adolescent boys
Hannah Decker's Freud, Dora, and Vienna, 1900
Antonio Damasio's Strange Order of Things clarifies the importance of feelings.
Damasio and Solms at the 2020 Psychoanalytic Meetings.
Freud's Papers on Technique An opportunity to think about empathy
Gender and Sexual Object Report from a Convention
Glen Gabbard on Therapeutic Action A local presentation
Carol Gilligan was honored by the American Psychoanalytic Association
Carol Gilligan discussed the Dobbs decision at the next in person APsA meeting
Peter L. Goldberg An object relational psychoanalyst comes to the Midwest from San Franciso
Adrienne Harris, relational and feminist psychoanalyst, visits our institute.
Dorothy E. Holmes Psychoanalysis and Race at the Annual Convention - A Personal Reaction
Peter L. Goldberg An object relational psychoanalyst comes to the Midwest from San Franciso
Adrienne Harris, relational and feminist psychoanalyst, visits our institute.
Dorothy E. Holmes Psychoanalysis and Race at the Annual Convention - A Personal Reaction
Danielle Knafo does a local zoom talk on catfishing
Anton Kris Speaking on Learning and Unlearning
Hermann Rorschach This biography is wonderful, and also listed under popular books.
Intersubjective Processes and the Unconscious by Lawrence J. Brown
Jonathan Lear Also from the Convention - with the Play A Delicate Balance - referenced elsewhere
Letters to Simon A favorite book about psychoanalytic technique by I.H. Paul
The Nature of Determinism Report on teaching a psychoanalytic class
Letters to Simon A favorite book about psychoanalytic technique by I.H. Paul
The Nature of Determinism Report on teaching a psychoanalytic class
Neuropsychoanalytic Threat I argue there is none - a bit of a screed.
Psychoanalysis and Research Report from the 2012 Convention
Research and Treatment Outcome Report from the 2015 Psychoanalytic Convention
The Rorschach Why this test is still relevant and important - a minority opinion.
Jeremy Safran - A remembrance A clinician and researcher talks about both.
Sexual Boundary Violations Andrea Celenza
Psychoanalysis and Research Report from the 2012 Convention
Research and Treatment Outcome Report from the 2015 Psychoanalytic Convention
The Rorschach Why this test is still relevant and important - a minority opinion.
Jeremy Safran - A remembrance A clinician and researcher talks about both.
Sexual Boundary Violations Andrea Celenza
Mark Solms' The Hidden Spring Solms tries to reduce the mind to an equation and I resist that.
Mark Solms teaches us how to teach Neuropsychoanalysis. Notes from the APsaA convention.
Mark Solms teaches us how to teach Neuropsychoanalysis. Notes from the APsaA convention.
Mark Solms describes the drive for play - illustrated by a play therapist.
Daniel Stern's The Interpersonal World of the Infant A Seminal look at psychoanalytic development
Statistics and Psychoanalysis I Complexity is at the heart of the social sciences
Telephone Treatment A Workshop
Daniel Stern's The Interpersonal World of the Infant A Seminal look at psychoanalytic development
Statistics and Psychoanalysis I Complexity is at the heart of the social sciences
Telephone Treatment A Workshop
The Uncanny Freud's essay as applied to Hitchcock's Vertigo (also in movies)
Eli Zaretsky's Secrets of the Soul Is psychoanalysis science or philosophy?
Eli Zaretsky's Secrets of the Soul Is psychoanalysis science or philosophy?
PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS: (Alpha by concept)
PSYCHOLOGY IN THE NEWS:
Autism and A Family's Love The way a human being was found
On Being Uncool Dreaming about procrastinating about writing about psychology and torture
Psychology and Torture I Rumblings and a preliminary report
Psychology and Torture II The Hoffman Report
Psychology and Torture III The Hoffman Report Continued
Autism and A Family's Love The way a human being was found
On Being Uncool Dreaming about procrastinating about writing about psychology and torture
Psychology and Torture I Rumblings and a preliminary report
Psychology and Torture II The Hoffman Report
Psychology and Torture III The Hoffman Report Continued
EDUCATION:
Jesuit Education A retreat proves enlightening.
MOOCs and SMOCs Massive online learning is described by pioneers...
Birth Control and Power Politics Should Catholic Institutions support Birth Control?
Higher Education in America A jaundiced view
The History of Psychology (and Rock and Roll) Prepping a new class
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RELIGION: (Reverse chronological order)
The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises - Day (Week) Four
The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises - Interlude between Day (Week) Three and Four
The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises - Day (Week) Three
The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises - Day (Week) Two
The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises - Day (Week) One
Jesuit Education A retreat proves enlightening (also in Education)
James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree A theological perspective on inequality
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND RACE IN AMERICA:
Appropriate A play about white denial
Dorothy E. Holmes An African American Psychoanalyst Speaks
Pym Nat Johnson's African Americans travel to a weird Antarctic Utopia (Also in books)
Elvis and Whiteness (Also in Travel)
James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree Clarity from theology
James Cone comes to mind at a Rock Musical
Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at our Midwestern Campus
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me (also in Books)
March John Lewis' pictorial memory of the Civil Rights Movement (also in Books)
Moonlight (also in movies)
Get Out The horror of liberal institutionalized racism (also in Movies)
Fences Denzel Washington and August Wilson educate (also in Movies)
Da Five Bloods Spike Lee and Vietnam (also in Movies)
BlackKklansman and Green Book: a black dream of racial hegemony is compared to a white one. (also in Movies)
Akhtar, Dionne Powell, and Trump Race at a Psychoanalytic Convention
Americanah Adiche's take on American Racism from a foreign perspective
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett's timely look at identity (also in Books)
42 A feel good film that hurts. History, but not the answer (also in Movies)
Soul Only here by accident... (Also in Movies)
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Immigrant generation gap (also in Movies)
Begin Again Eddie Gaude Jr.'s reflections on Trump through Baldwin's Eyes (Also in Books).
MUSIC:
Hozier Live An intergenerational experience
Lorde's Royals A new voice...
OPERA:
The Magic Flute A novel production brings magic to life.
Pavarotti Ordinary tragedy (also in Movies)
Romeo and Juliet The Opera!
VISUAL ARTS:
Monet's Water Lillies Come to town...
TRAVEL AND LIVING: (a potpourri)
Preparing to Travel to the Third World Nicaragua I
Learning about a New Country Nicaragua II
In the Hall of the Incest King Nicaragua III
Thank God for Some Priests Nicaragua IV
Meeting Dora Maria Tellez Nicaragua V
Talking with peasants about birth control Nicaragua VI
Talking Commerce Nicaragua VII
Nicaragua on the couch Nicaragua VIII
ESPN, Steve Bartman and Luck Da Cubs and a mindset.
Wrigley Field A Pilgrimage
Life of Pi and Getting a Dog (also in movies).
Hot Yoga Becoming a novice
Sleep Apnea Treatment comes after being diagnosed through dreams...
The Wired Hermit An old friend comes to visit
Blogging about Blogging A little navel gazing...
Blogging about Blogging II More of same...
The Tyranny of Quantification How numbers run our lives
What is Porn? And what functions does it serve?
Aptitude Testing Do I have what it takes to be an analyst?
Elvis, Memphis and Whiteness Traveling to Graceland (Also in Race in America)
Egads, My Wife is a Member of the Deep State! Personal experience...
My Fountain Pen Life How fountain pens improved my quality of life.
Total Eclipse and Freud's On Transience
Tarot on Retirement What does the past, present and future hold?
POLITICS:
9/11 Ten Years Later A psychoanalytic take on terror.
Donald Trump as a Bully The first of many posts of concern.
Akhtar, Dione Powell, and Trump at a Convention (also in Psychoanalytic conventions and Race)
Is President Trump a Terrorist? A call for nuclear disarmament.
American Hustle and Trump as Hustler in Chief (also in Movies)
Hillbilly Elegy Trying to wrap my mind around Trump's America (also in Books)
In My Lane: Gun Control A psychological perspective from a (former) gun toter
We The People: A response to the Senate's decision to forego evidence
The Boston Tea Party A diatribe about self government as opposed to no government
Reaction to the Assault on the Capitol Can we make lemonade out of this?
COVID CHRONICLES: (In chronological order)
I: Apocalypse Now my first posting on COVID-19.
II: Midnight in Paris is a jumping off point for more thinking about COVID. (Also in Movies).
III: Hans Selye and the Stress Response Syndrome. COVID becomes more normal... for now.
VI: Get back in that classroom Paranoid ruminations.
VII: Why Shutting Classes Makes Fiscal Sense A weak argument
XIII: Ennui
XIV. Where, Oh Where have my in-person students gone? Split zoom classes in the age of COVID.
XVIII. I miss my mask?
IXX. Bo Burnham's Inside Commentary on the commenter.
XXVIII. How will we move on from our Empire of Pain? (Also in books)
XXX. It's not dead yet...
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