SPOTLIGHT -
Terms of the Social V: Relational Psychology and Therapy
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Terms of the Social IV: The Relational Self
The relational self is at once both social and intimate.
Terms of the Social III: The Relational Dialogue
The relational dialogue is to relational therapy what free association is to psychoanalysis.
“The Long Habit”: A Valediction of Professor Eliot Sorel, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych (October 2, 1940-October 13, 2024)
“Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.”
“How To Connect Things”: A Relational Dialogue about Social Psychiatry
Our chosen image of what and who we are in this world.
“With Art We Build What Poverty Destroys”: Adalberto de Paula Barreto, MD, PhD, on Integrative Community Therapy in Brazil
With art we build what poverty destroys.
Integrative Community Therapy in Brazil: An Interview with Adalberto de Paula Barreto, MD, PhD – Community Psychiatry Part II
A therapist asks a question that makes me glimpse the eternal.
Therapy, Ethics, and Society
Ethics as first therapy.
“Unfolding”: Rethinking Development, A Report from the Global South
Finding social truth in poetic metaphors.
“Art Informs Life and Life Informs Art”: Dennis Palumbo on Art, Life, and Psychotherapy – Part II
Art informs life and life informs art.
“Mirrors and Prisms”: An Interview with Dennis Palumbo About Art, Life, and Psychotherapy – Part I
Art imitates life imitates art.
“The Revolving Door”: From the Asylum to the Community and Back – Community Psychiatry, Part I
Hopes and failures of community psychiatry.
Extending the Terms of the Social: Digital Worlds and the Fluid Social
Digital worlds and the fluid social.
Terms of the Social II: The Sociology of Knowledge
Ideas are a product of their context.
“The Experimental Child”: Children and the COVID-19 Syndemic
Children are subject to the world’s largest biosocial experiment.
“Psychiatry and the Humanities”: An Innovative Course at the University of Montreal
Expanding the medical model to embrace the humanities.
Terms of the Social: Updating the Lexicon of Social Psychiatry
Society starts with two—one is a fiction.
The Social Determinants of Health—Social Psychiatry’s Basic Science
From populations to patients.
Migration—Maps of Meaning, Maps of Belonging
Embracing movement as theory.
Slow Thought in a Fast City
Experience is an end in itself, not measured in time or goals.
“The Trouble with Normal”: Reading 2 Canadian Bestsellers
Challenging what is normal and the value of order.
From Quebec’s “Two Solitudes” to the Global South
From the Global North to the Global South.
“Bound Upon a Wheel of Fire”: Reflections on Trauma
Trauma is the distance between the reach and the grasp for our chosen image.
“This Is Your Brain on War”: Poetry for Peace in a Time of War
Poetry for peace in a time of war.
Polarization: On the Threshold Between Political Ideology and Social Reality
An analysis of polarization: “To be aware of the abyss of polarization is already to be forewarned and forearmed.”
“The Web of Meaning”: Family Therapy is Social Psychiatry’s Therapeutic Branch
What are the links between social psychiatry and the family therapy movement?
Against “The Myth of Independence”: For a More Convivial and Interdependent Society
Some of the most divisive notions in the Western world and the Global North: individualism and independence. Are they a myth?
Social Psychiatry Comes of Age
Welcome to the new column, “Second Thoughts… About Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy.”
