What we encounter in LLMs is largely ourselves. A psychoanalytic AI take on transference, countertransference, and the ...

When I taught short fiction writing, I used to quote writer Meg Wolitzer on the pleasures of the form. “You will find ...

Sometimes I like to think about the ways that manualized therapies, such as CBT, and psychoanalysis are more similar than different. For instance, I would argue that traditional CBT is a manualized ...

As a technique of human investigation, psychoanalysis has always been based on the patient’s concrete relationship with the world, since it starts from the reworking and reliving of the patient’s ...

Stephen Longstaffe forwards an analysis by Marcel Sturrock, Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies at Watt University College (motto: “Watt U.C. is what you get!”), and the author of This Game Which Is ...

Sigmund Freuds quote highlights how suppressed feelings do not simply disappear but continue to influence behaviour over time ...

After an eight-month investigation, the Rose Tree Media School Board has concluded that Superintendent James Wigo neither intimidated nor threatened a 6-year-old on the second day of school as the boy ...

“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” This quote appears in the 1960 book ...

Like all of us, Donald Trump’s behavior is shaped by the emotional ghosts of his past, which continue to haunt him outside ...

UNSW Sydney has developed Tom and Mia to help lonely students through friend-like AI conversations, amid rising concerns over chatbot harm, dependency, and suicide-linked cases.

What we think we want is often undermined by what we actually want. Can psychoanalysis make sense of our most insidious urges ...