Psychology suggests that uncertainty may be one reason being ignored can hurt more than receiving direct criticism. Experiences of social rejection and ostracism can threaten fundamental psychological ...

In 2017, feeling thwarted and bilious after almost two decades as a lawyer, I began taking classes at a Manhattan psychoanalytic institute, with the goal of changing professions. Among my classmates, ...

Psychoanalysis is both deeply familiar and uncomfortably strange. While many would like to reduce analysis to its neurophysiological counterparts, I argue we should not. Core psychoanalytic ideas echo ...