“So the final lesson of 1918 (The Great Influenza Pandemic): Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and
My approach to deepening and revitalizing development for patients has been to understand the parallel process. We evolve in relation to our patients, intersubjectively, with the psychological field of the patient intersecting with, and influencing, our own. As therapists, we need our visual cues and
In the Spring of 2016, we wrote an essay (Our Leadership Dilemma, IAPSP eforum, 2019) in which we applied ideas of Heinz Kohut, the founder of Self Psychology, regarding the psychology of leadership to the then current presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
by Charles B. Strozier and David M. Terman Whatever Donald Trump is, or is not, psychologically, Trumpism as a social movement deserves close scrutiny in terms of its values and motivations. Our focus is on a self psychoanalytic perspective that we believe can illuminate social and
What can help us face up to the horrors with which climate change threatens us? Wittgenstein (1953) characterized philosophy as "a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language" (section 109). In an earlier essay (Stolorow & Atwood, 2017), Atwood and I
At the recent meetings in Vienna, most participants visited Freud's apartment and consulting room (with all but one room empty because he took the furniture with him to London in 1938). I went instead to a far more important site, that of Kohut's home
This new column invites dialogue about the role of the sociopolitical in the therapy process. It remains controversial whether or not the sociopolitical dimension constitutes a continuous presence in our work with our patients. This column hopes to provide an opportunity to
Miami is a culturally dynamic city, and my institute is looking for ways to build bridges with analytic communities in Latin America. A recent clinical presentation at my small but growing institute, a conservative organization for many years, by a senior Latin American analyst
Early last summer, my son called to tell me to drop everything and go online. Tickets for the Chicago run of "Hamilton" beginning in November were going on sale in just a few minutes, and, if I wasn't logged into the Ticketmaster site promptly,
To make sense of the current presidential campaign we must understand the fundamentally different psychological relationship between each candidate and their supporters. We believe that the key issue is the nature of the candidate's leadership. The psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut identified two common types of
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