International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #2
By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #4 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Psychedelics and Psychoanalytic Treatment and it is edited by Neal Spira.  It includes articles and commentaries by Neal Spira, C.J. Healy,   Lawrence G. Fischman,  Chistopher W. T. Miller,  Tracy Sidesinger, Thomas Brod, and Robert Galatzer-Levy. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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Tracking the Crisis: Reckoning: The midterm rout has thrown MAGA into turmoil, an AI sell-off has rocked Wall Street, and progressive candidates are celebrating historic wins
By Categories: Politics

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Reckoning: The midterm rout has thrown MAGA into turmoil, an AI sell-off has rocked Wall Street, and progressive candidates are celebrating historic wins in the Nation Magazine Substack on November 8, 2026.

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Episode 57 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Race Matters with Jennifer Hall”
By Categories: Politics, Psychoanalysis
Episode 57 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Race Matters with Jennifer Hall” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Jennifer Hall, a psychotherapist with a private practice in New York City. Hall, as a Black therapist, entered her practice prepared to seek and advertise primarily to Black women. Navigating the complex bundle of expectations around race, care, and expertise, she found herself surprised as she took on referred white clientele. Far from deciding that race does not impact the clinical space, Hall instead elucidates how racial difference doesn’t work like a brick wall against connection, but rather, as a nuanced bundle of conscious and instinctual expectations shared across an encounter.
“Rather than as an impenetrable block, race shows itself in the instinctual ways that we both attempt to edit ourselves in order to foster connection.”
— Jennifer Hall, “This Black Thing” ROOM 6.26

What if Your True Self is Just Another Performance? The paradox of authenticity in a world of roles, expectations, and unconscious influence
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What if Your True Self is Just Another Performance? The paradox of authenticity in a world of roles, expectations, and unconscious influences (Vol. 6; Issue 44) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD in his Psyche and Society Newsletter on November 4, 2026.

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