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Friday, February 27, 2026

Gramsci's Relevance to Contemporary Politics

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Gramsci 's hegemony theory proves particularly relevant for analyzing contemporary media landscapes. Corporate media conglomerates func...
Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Types of Defensive Styles in Psychoanalytic Practice

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In applied psychoanalytic work, clinicians often encounter not isolated defence mechanisms but defensive styles —coherent patterns through w...

Defence-Based Analytical Work: Listening for Protection Before Meaning

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Defence-based analytical work begins with a shift in stance. Rather than treating symptoms, behaviors, or relational patterns primarily as e...
Monday, February 23, 2026

Defense, Ego Functions, and Affect Regulation in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice

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Defense theory remains one of the most clinically generative contributions of psychoanalysis, but in contemporary applied work defenses are ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Working at Multiple Levels in Applied Psychoanalytic Practice

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Psychoanalytic work requires the capacity to listen simultaneously on several levels of organization. Patients do not present “pure” conflic...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Psychodynamic Formulation: Dynamic, Structural, Developmental, Relational

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For advanced clinicians, psychodynamic formulation is not a summary, it is a clinical instrument . It organizes perception, sharpens timing,...

Thirdness in Psychoanalytic Therapy: From Two Minds to a Shared Space

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Many clinical impasses in psychoanalysis can be described in the simplest possible way: we are stuck in twoness . The patient feels somethin...