For Jacques Lacan, therapeutic action is fundamentally different from what is commonly understood in other forms of therapy, such as...

Lacan’s theories—and Žižek’s extensions of them—are often critiqued as androcentric, rooted in what Derrida famously called “castration...

The field of Digital Humanities (DH) stands at the intersection of technological innovation and the study of human culture, offering a...

The Maternal Primacy Paradigm  provides a framework to move beyond the androcentric and phallogocentric dominance of traditional...

Robert Stolorow’s theory of intersubjectivity, rooted in phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions, offers a significant departure...

There is a fundamental tension in contemporary psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories: the challenge of theorizing the subject in...

One question I’ve been grappling with lately is whether my project, Psychological Health for Beginners (PHfB) , fits within Lacan’s idea...

Lacan on Human Nature Lacan famously resisted traditional ideas of "human nature," rejecting the notion that humans possess a fixed...

"Therapeutic Action" in Lacan's Psychoanalysis For Jacques Lacan, therapeutic action is fundamentally different from what is commonly...

My fourteen-year-old daughter, Lilah, and I had just had a great Mexican dinner at Comal in Berkeley and we were killing time before we...

Written in 1995, my Enabling Cyborg Repair is a rigorous and thorough exploration of the intersections between technology, identity, and...

Jared Russell was a colleague, writing collaborator, and dear friend who passed away in 2022. He was also the author of three important...

... or, Reflections on My Supervision Study Program Experience. After being asked to sum up my experience of The Psychotherapy...

This review of Barnaby Barratt's trilogy on his form of radical psychoanalysis first appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology  in 2020 (Vol....

(A revised version of the " Learn About Psychoanalysis " page from the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society's website .) What is...

Below is the syllabus for a course I put together for Pacifica Graduate Institute  in the summer of 2023. I ended up not teaching the...

" The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy " by Jonathan Shedler American Psychologist , February–March 2010, pp. 98-109. Empirical...

Asking the Impossible: The Paradox at the Heart of Psychotherapy Psychotherapy is, at its core, a practice of "asking the impossible."...

The two projects presented here, Psychological Health for Beginners  and Disturbing Psychoanalytic Origins: A Derridean Reading of...

As with my approach to working with individuals, my approach to working with couples is very client-centered--or, couple-centered.  It...