PsychBytes

PsychBytes is a series of bite-sized readings designed to spark interest and provoke thought through psychoanalytic perspectives on current events, cultural works, and everyday life.

Archive

2017

• October: Obsessed with Losing
• September: “When West Meets East”: Teaching Infant Observation in China
• July: A Shift in Perspective
• June: Immigration
• May: Touch
• April: Book Review: “Racist States of Mind”
• March: Siblings: Deep Ties/Tangled Complexities
• February: “I Have Always Depended on the Kindness of Strangers”
• January: Moral Injury

2016

• December: The Wicked Stepmother Revisited
• November: Objects of Desire
• October: Universals
• September: What the Body Knows
• July: Endings
• June: Creativity
• May: The Treatment
• April: Attunement
• March: Gut Feelings
• February: Learning from Infant Observation
• January: Loops of Time

2015

• December: Holiday Connections
• November: Emotional Triggers
• October: Transitions
• September: The Muse: Collector, Parent, and Psychoanalytic Clinician
• July: Thinking About Death?
• June: Self Hatred and Self Respect
• May: Orange Soup
• April: The Rape of Mother Earth: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Climate Change
• March: The Calculus of Cognitive Loss, or It’s So Much Harder When You Can’t Grieve
• February: First Love
• January: To Sophie with Love

2014

• December: Up Close and Personal—An Award-Winning Intimate Video Portrait
• November: Shakespeare: The First Psychoanalytic Thinker?
• October: Thinking About Culture and Aggression
• September: Rhythms of Baseball
• July: Matisse’s Art—A Window on How Therapy Works