Dealing with Identity: Transforming Apologies into Progress

Dealing with Identity: Transforming Apologies into Progress

Flora Lazar, PhD LCSW

Dr. Lazar reflects on the slow pace of change in psychoanalytic thinking and teaching about race and gender. She asks what it will take for psychoanalysis to become more inclusive of people whom it has historically dismissed and pathologized. One possibility, she suggests, lies in the integration of institute training with a university culture of research, critical inquiry and interdisciplinary dialogue.

Rethinking Social Media: Insights from Dr. Maria Mastronardi

Rethinking Social Media: Insights from Dr. Maria Mastronardi

Dr. Maria Mastronardi, PhD LPC, is a licensed therapist and a professor of communication studies. Her research and teaching focus on social media use, relationship issues, trauma, and gender. Dr. Mastronardi offered some of her insights about how social media can both contribute to and alleviate mental distress for those who may be interested in seeking help.

Learning from Brisbane: The Politics of Identity and the Promise of Empathy

Learning from Brisbane: The Politics of Identity and the Promise of Empathy

Flora Lazar, PhD LCSW
Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
Volume 15, 2020 – Issue 2

Flora Lazar discusses what self psychology can learn from the field of literary criticism about addressing the experience of political and social otherness. Using the debates arising from the 2017 Brisbane Literary Festival, it explores how social, political, and cultural identities might affect our ability to understand the lives of those whose identities we do not share.