American Psychoanalytic Association

"I am reminded of a quote from James Baldwin, 'People can cry much easier than they can change'," says Ebony Dennis, PsyD, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who is also an APsaA member. "Changing attitudes about racism will take time and effort, and occasionally some hurt feelings. But it is through these growing pains that real, lasting change happens." https://www.miamitimesonline.com//article_bf4f6236-d42a-55

Tomorrow is the last day to register early for APsaA's 2021 National Meeting. Get to it! www.apsameeting.org

In today’s America, everyday experiences are suffused with fear, anxiety, and dread of encounters with armed authorities that provide an excessive amount of violence and surveillance over our movements throughout the world. Everyday interactions during this global pandemic are also leading to Blacks dying from COVID-19 at an extraordinary rate. https://www.psychologytoday.com//the-twin-pandemics-racism

Many people feel uncertain about teletherapy, including worries about what this process will be like. With COVID many (most) have are using online technologies. Here are 6 suggestions: https://www.psychologytoday.com//six-ways-make-teletherapy

The pandemic has us all exhausted... https://www.psychologytoday.com//even-your-therapist-is-ti

APsaA is co-sponsoring - "The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and our Current Crises: The Psychological Impact of Race, Politics, Economics and Covid". More information at the link: http://www.apsameeting.org//Paula-Ellman-COWAP-conference-

More and more people are defining their gender in terms other than man or woman. What to do if a friend tells you they are non-binary. https://www.psychologytoday.com//my-friend-came-out-gender

If your image of psychoanalysis is from the 1950s or earlier, good news... times have changed and so has psychoanalysis. https://www.psychologytoday.com//psychoanalysis-is-alive-a

Ever have one of those days where you remember something but can't remember if it was a dream or happened for real...?https://www.psychologytoday.com//201802/am-i-awake-or-am-i

Are you or someone you know hesitant about the Coronavirus Vaccines? Let's talk about it https://www.psychologytoday.com//vaccine-hesitancy-can-we-

From all of us at APsaA to you. So long 2020...

"The pandemic is exposing fault lines that should have been corrected years and years ago."