Trans-Gender Psychoanalysis
In 2021, I taught a postgraduate seminar called “Trans-Gender Psychoanalysis” as part of the curriculum of the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and Fellowship in Hospital-Based
Writing from Rain Mason Olbert, PhD
Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Addiction
Psychoanalysis has somewhat neglected the study of substance use disorders—frequently seeing them as a symptom of “the real problem” and hence not attending closely to
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Did Freud really wish he had studied the occult instead of psychoanalysis?
Many authors quote Freud as saying “If I had my life to live over again I should devote myself to psychical research rather than to
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Emotional avoidance, self-coherence, and psychosis: Why affective regulation is a form of relational care
Conventional wisdom holds that avoiding your emotions cuts you off from important data about yourself, but did you know that habitually flinching from feeling can
Jung’s Function Types: 16 Ways of Being in the World
In this post, I outline and use Jung’s basic principles to: (1) define Jung’s four function types of sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling; (2) elaborate
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Eight Recommendations for Cultivating Dream Life
To be able to work with dreams, whether psychologically or magically, requires building a relationship with them. Many people are alienated from their dream life.
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Jung’s Notions of Extraversion and Introversion
Extraversion and introversion are well-known concepts, but their originator, Carl Jung, used them very differently than we do. Jung focused not on how outgoing or
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Psychoanalysis, Magic, & the Occult: An Uneasy Shared History
Psychoanalysis emerged during a high tide of interest among scientists and laypeople alike in psychical research and spiritualism. Freud and subsequent psychoanalysts held conflicting, ambivalent
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Magical Thinking in Cultural Context
A recent New York Times article claimed that “most psychologists agree that astrology’s appeal rests largely on ‘confirmation bias’—the human tendency to seek out, recall