by Molly Merson, MFT

At Talkspace, Start-Up Culture Collides With Mental Health Concerns. We are facing a challenge: accessible mental health treatment is necessary for a healthy society, and yet, can psychoanalysis and other talk therapy be effective through an app? Do tech companies have the patient/client and therapist’s best interests in mind? This article argues, likely not.

‘Loser’: A leading psychiatrist takes a detailed look into Trump’s narcissistic pathologies. With the publication of Mary Trump’s book, many are taking the opportunity to become more public about their opinions about the president’s presumed psychological makeup and psychic life. Here is one psychoanalyst who is interviewed on this topic.

The New Theatrics of Remote Therapy. The “theater” or “space/place/location” of psychoanalysis is usually considered in terms of the frame, but remote psychotherapy is exposing aspects of the frame which psychoanalysis does not often directly take up. Several psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are interviewed in this New Yorker piece about that which has changed— and that which has stayed the same— in the process and practice of psychotherapy during a pandemic.