Reflections on psychology, clinical practice, and the human experience.
Patients increasingly want their therapist to share their politics, validate their values, and agree with their worldview. This is not a preference. It is anti-therapy — and it prevents the work from happening at all.
"Focus on what you can control, forget the rest." Many believe this is what therapy is. It's the opposite. What psychoanalysis sets against the myth of control.
Doctors, special education workers, psychiatric nurses: why so many caregivers end up becoming psychoanalysts after their own analysis. The logical analysis of a movement.
Contemporary discourse refuses to ask the question of homosexuality in its relation to perversion. Psychoanalysis takes it up — not to pathologize, but to restore to the subject the dignity of being able to think about what concerns them.
The dominant discourse urges us to love ourselves and presents this as the path to healing. But taking oneself as object — whether of love or of hatred — is precisely what we call narcissism. Therapy does not consist in adding more of it.
The accusation that psychoanalysis is a pseudo-science assumes psychoanalysis claims to be one. It does not. The real pseudo-science is what calls itself psychology today — and the suffering it produces is everywhere visible.
Before Freud, women diagnosed with hysteria were locked in asylums and subjected to sexual torture as medical treatment. Freud said they were not insane and should be listened to. The accusation that he was misogynistic depends on misreading his symbolic concepts as biological claims — a category error that Lacan's rereading of Freud makes explicit.
Patients are leaving therapy for AI chatbots and self-help apps. The numbers are alarming. But the real threat to the profession is not technology — it is therapists who have forgotten what therapy actually is.
Most therapists today — in private practice and in institutions — work without personal supervision. They believe their training and their protocols are enough. They are not. And their patients bear the consequences.
Between 20 and 57% of patients never return after their first session. The instinct is to look for fault — in the patient, or in yourself. The research suggests the problem is elsewhere entirely.
Most therapists believe the internet gives them global visibility. In reality, search engines and AI still prioritize geographic relevance. Learn how local SEO can help you attract real clients.
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