The American Psychoanalyst
Contemporary writing on clinical practice, theory, art, politics, and everyday psychic life.
TAP is a digital and print publication exploring psychoanalysis in dialogue with culture, politics, art, and contemporary life.
Featured Article:
Fashion’s Deep Surface
Valerie Steele on Freud, fetishism, and the emotional life of clothing
The Patient’s Wish to Know Their Therapist
Curiosity, fantasy, and the therapist’s inner world
Burning Down the House
Avgi Saketopoulou’s lecture “Fighting Fire with Fire” left me wondering if there may be more than one way to burn.
Issue 59.2 Out Now
TAP 59.2 covers the social turn in psychoanalysis, therapy as method acting, ketamine therapy, and more.
Supporting the Science of Psychoanalysis
Meet the people behind a global program cultivating the next generation of psychoanalytic researchers.
Building the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance
Chinese psychoanalysis emerges through training and scholarship
“Sinners” is a film about Black Joy
Sinners invites viewers to face the realities of collective pain, hold the tensions of joy and injustice, and imagine a freer world.
On Being Jewish
There is something inside of me I can’t get rid of. It weighs me down at the center of my body like a stone.
