Finding room to talk about the divine in psychotherapy
A Louise Bourgeois show at the Jewish Museum and a new biography of Lucian Freud may provide the answer
Sarah Boxer’s whimsical cartoon novel puts a bestiary of human frailty on the psychoanalytic couch
When a bunch of psychoanalysts try talking about the Jewish state, they reveal a lot about their own repressed feelings
But the theft and erasure of Sabina Spielrein’s intellectual legacy by the psychoanalytic establishment may be an even more troubling crime
Published 100 years ago this month, ‘To the Lighthouse’ still shines as a beacon for writer Daphne Merkin
‘How Does That Make You Feel?’, edited by a New York-based social worker, is a collection of essays written by both therapists and patients about the process of psychoanalysis
He came to me for psychoanalysis—and to exorcise the spirit that was taking over his mind
Why my sisters can’t think straight about Israel
Jürgen Habermas recalls philosophers and sociologists of Jewish background as returnees in the early Federal Republic Of Germany
The esteemed author talks about all the reasons the founder of psychoanalysis would have objected to a new examination of his life
Police looking for suspects in ‘despicable act by a callous thief’
Famous psychoanalyst breaks the cycle of one woman’s memories of the Nazis
The Times catches up on a trend
After a controversial but predictable debate, a leading New York psychoanalytic society changes its name
Ellen Ullman’s new novel pushes a psychoanalyst, a patient, and a mysterious eavesdropper back to their traumatic roots—in the Holocaust
In Argentina, psychoanalysis is as common as Malbec
How I learned to love Tisha B’av