The Body Speaks the Teen Years: Adolescence and Psychosomatic Expression
Adolescence is a period of profound transformation—physical, emotional, and psychic. Hormones surge, identities are questioned, and relational landscapes shift. For some adolescents, these internal upheavals...
The Inheritance of Unspoken Wounds: Family Trauma and the Making of Fragility
Not all inheritances are visible. Some are not passed down through stories, objects, or even conscious memory, but through silences, bodily states, and unformulated anxieties....
Assembled Lives: The Psychic Echoes of Being an IVF Child
To be born is always, in some sense, to be “made” by others. Yet for those conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), this fact can...
The Mother Who Cannot Wait: When Feeding Replaces Digesting
In the earliest psychic exchanges between mother and infant, time is not merely chronological—it is emotional, bodily, and symbolic. The act of feeding, often idealized...
When Meaning Falters: Do Symptoms Always Speak?
Psychoanalysis has long been sustained by a powerful conviction: that symptoms are not arbitrary. They speak, even when the subject cannot. They condense conflict, displace...
When the Body Thinks Instead: On Psychosomatic Patients and the Poverty of Symbolization
There are patients for whom the analytic encounter does not unfold in the expected register of conflict, fantasy, and interpretation. Instead, one is met with...
The Somatic vs. Libidinal Body: André Green and the Limits of Representation
The psychoanalytic body is never simply given. It is not reducible to flesh, organs, or physiology, even though it depends on them. From a psychoanalytic...
RAME Therapy and Neurodivergence: Building Compassion, Acceptance, and Self-Accommodation Therapy with neurodivergent clients often involves more than symptom reduction or skill building. At its core,...
Sensory Processing, Alexithymia, Masking, and Emotional Awareness in Autism and ADHD
Autism and ADHD frequently involve differences not only in attention or social communication, but in sensory processing, emotional identification, and identity formation. Understanding these domains...
Autism, ADHD, and the Persistent Drive for Autonomy: Moving Beyond Pathology
Autism and ADHD share overlapping features, yet they are not the same condition. Some individuals meet criteria for one, some for both, and some display...