Beyond the Couch
Some additional perspectives to consider.
The Things They Carry Project
In March 2020, one year after the devastating COVID pandemic shut down our nation, my practice was overflowing with stressed and grief-stricken patients.
Becoming a Psychoanalytic Social Worker
Emerging from my MSW program as a neophyte social worker, my aspiration was to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist largely indistinguishable from my colleagues in other disciplines.
Father Gregory Boyle’s TED Talk & Community Psychoanalysis
Father Gregory Boyle is founder of Homeboy industries in California, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.
10 Principles of Community Psychoanalysis
What do we mean when we say “Community Psychoanalysis”? Joy Kassett, the co-chair of the WBCP Community Psychoanalysis study group, wrote out these principles to get the conversation started.
A Renewal of Focus on Community Psychoanalysis
Nationally and internationally, the field of psychoanalysis is awakening to a current of interest in returning to a focus on community services and approaches in obvious response to the needs of our times.
Joe
Joe was one of the first patients I met when I joined the outreach assertive community treatment (ACT) team. As a member of this team, I have learned the importance of building trust over time.