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06/08/2026

Issue 60.1 of The American Psychoanalyst Magazine (TAP) is now available!

You can order your print copy at:
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From from fairy tales to chatbot therapy to the “manosphere,” TAP 60.1 explores dependence, recognition, and the difficulty of remaining human in contemporary life.

“Is there an Indian way of thinking?”—A. K. RamanujanThe answer to Ramanujan’s question begins to unfold in a seventy-ye...
05/07/2026

“Is there an Indian way of thinking?”—A. K. Ramanujan

The answer to Ramanujan’s question begins to unfold in a seventy-year-old Delhi bookstore. In a hole-in-a-wall shop, books rise like pillars from floor to ceiling, sustained by a logic both precarious and permanent. A poetic chaos. Personal space surrenders to intimacy as people bustle around me, brushing shoulders. And there, face-out in front of a tall stack, I see Arundhati Roy’s memoir, Mother Mary Comes to Me, which seduces me with a single glance.

Read Chandra Rai’s “Mother as Shelter and Storm - The Dharmic self and the analytic couch” @
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03/05/2026

Is this what the future of mental health therapy looks like?

“UberTherapy is the term I use to indicate the fluid and dynamic business models of digital therapy that are being utilized as key health care players start to roll out AI across the mental health sector. The book argues that UberTherapy represents an attack on thinking, offering the new consumers of digital therapy a defense against deep work. It contends that inherent in the automation and iconic design of therapeutic labor processes lies a rejection of complexity and a denial of our dependency on others to explore the unconscious. It sets the goal of therapy low, to finding a simple solution to a simple problem determined by an online survey, your e-commercial history, and credit card details. It is in this way that the design premise of online therapy platforms redefines the therapy problem as one of convenience and choice where therapy can be done anytime from anywhere by anyone. With the emergence of short-term, solution-focused, and ultimately “nonrelational therapies,” we are left with a set of transactional decisions about what kind of therapy to buy online.”

Read Elizabeth Cotton’s ‘Algorithmic Defenses Against Thinking’ (The rise of UberTherapy) @
AmericanPsychoanalyst.Substack.com



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Dear Psychoanalyst,I recently came across my therapist’s profile on Hinge. ICK! Though she used an alias and shared phot...
02/12/2026

Dear Psychoanalyst,

I recently came across my therapist’s profile on Hinge. ICK! Though she used an alias and shared photos in silhouette, I knew it was her when I spotted a print from the office in the background of her photo. Now I can’t stop wondering how I’m supposed to explore my recent dating drought and feelings of unworthiness with someone who describes herself as “single but open to a long-term relationship,” and who may be trolling sites under an assumed name. Is she lonely, or even worse, desperate? What kind of therapy does a desperate person give? And why the alias? I wonder if she’s been dishonest about other things. My questions are getting in the way of our work.

Signed,�TMI

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In Ask a Psychoanalyst, Stephanie Newman, PhD, responds to reader questions about therapy, relationships, and psychopathology of everyday life.

Submit your questions to: [email protected]. Your identity will be kept anonymous.

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02/05/2026

“What struck me, both in my own experience with AI and in my patients’ accounts, was precisely the absence of cost. The machine could mirror emotional language with remarkable fluency, but nothing happened to it in the process. There was no inner life to be strained, no reverie interrupted, no psychic consequence to misunderstanding or misattunement. If it responded clumsily, nothing was injured; if it responded well, nothing was deepened. The interaction was frictionless—and in that frictionless state, something vital was lost.”

Read Karyne E. Messina’s ‘Psychoanalysis, AI Chatbots, and Digital Mentalization’ @ AmericanPsychoanalyst.Substack.com

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Welcome to the United StatesChandra Rai recounts her homecoming amidst closing borders. “The dim lights and the constant...
01/01/2026

Welcome to the United States

Chandra Rai recounts her homecoming amidst closing borders.

“The dim lights and the constant hum, suspended in air resisting gravity, floating through clouds, outside all borders, claimed by no nation, paradoxically alone in the presence of others, transitioning between who I was at departure and who I’ll become at arrival: the airplane becomes the analytic couch.

Here, my unconscious comes out to play as my reveries roam: patients, humanity, poetry, grief, dreams, longing, silence, love—creativity emerging from the wandering. This is the creative aliveness I cultivate—the capacity to listen deeply, to feel, to think what hasn’t yet been thought, in myself and in those I sit with—psychoanalysis becoming not merely a craft, but a way of being in the world.”

Read it @ AmericanPsychoanalyst.Substack.com

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