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When I heard of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl’s sudden death last week, I was shocked and saddened. She was a teacher, a mentor, and a friend. I had just seen her two weeks before at a lecture she gave on homophobia and “childism,” the subject of her new book, out this month from Yale University Press. During…

from Thomas Ogden’s paper “Comments on Transference and Countertransference in the Initial Analytic Meeting”: “Everything the analyst does in the first face-to-face analytic session is intended as an invitation to the patient to consider the meaning of his experience. All that has been most obvious to the patient will no longer be treated as self-evident;…

Are you addicted to your smartphone? Psychologist Lisa Merlo has “observed a number of behaviors among smartphone users that she labels ‘problematic.’ Among them, Merlo says some patients pretend to talk on the phone or fiddle with apps to avoid eye contact or other interactions at a bar or a party. Others are so genuinely…

Psychologist and psychotherapist Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for people with borderline personality disorder, comes out about her history of struggling with mental illness. She says, “So many people have begged me to come forward, and I just thought — well, I have to do this. I owe it to them. I…