Psychoanalytic Inquiry

'The Conversation' is the podcast of the journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Our aim is to produce an entertaining multi-voiced drama of ideas, filtered through a contemporary psychoanalytic lens. You can listen to our newest episode on "Otherness" here: podcasts.apple.com/.../otherness.…...

"I have never spent years in an institution, like, Firestone did, but I have been inside a dozen times, for days, or weeks; voluntarily and by 72-hour hold." Interesting piece in @the_point_mag by Emmett Rensin. thepointmag.com/criticism/haza…

In Winnicott's view, the analyst is encouraged to tolerate not knowing and, instead, to offer spontaneous and authentic responsiveness, the point of interpreting being to show the patient that the analyst is fully alive and imperfect. — Lewis Aron A Meeting of Minds

"Two things are certain about freedom: that we are never determined and yet that we never change, since, looking back on what we were, we can always find hints of what we have become."--Merleau-Ponty, Cezanne's Doubt.

Should we abolish the Psychoanalytic Institute? substack.com/inbox/post/164…

Leon Eisenberg, 1973.

“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs” Sofia Jeppsson discusses how autobiographies of madness intersect with academic philosophy and fantasy fiction in the context of her Swedish novel, “Cogwheel Souls” psychiatrymargins.com/p/cogwheel-sou…

In this 1991 paper, Lichtenberg evaluates Kohut's concept of selfobject, which refers to a person used by the patient to perform a vital psychological function that the patient cannot perform themselves, for instance, to regulate self-esteem or provide holding-soothing comfort.

Perhaps AI’s greatest gift is to remind us what it cannot do—falter, hesitate, ache.

1) AI can probably help some people feel better in the short term—and that’s not nothing. But symptom relief isn’t the same as healing. Offering suggestions or a listening ear to help manage stress and get through difficult periods is a good thing.

"It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government."--Freud, 1937

our article discussing problems with the minimal self-view of self-disturbance in psychosis, and outlining an alternative transparency-account, is now freely available through the following link: tandfonline.com/eprint/649FXW4…

New from Sam Guzzardi: A clinically-focused paper which uses psychoanalytic methodology to interrogate queerphobia. Full text available for FREE here:

“If a man is otherwise healthy, happy, and efficient, and his rare attacks of headache can be avoided by not eating lobster, for example, it would seem better that he avoid eating lobster than that he be analyzed.”--Leo Stone.