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: Politics of Identity & the Promise of Empathy

Learning from Brisbane: Politics of Identity & 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.

Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Race, Identity, and Psychotherapy: Insights from Dr. Stafford

Anancia Stafford, EdD completed her masters and doctoral work at Governor’s State University, where she studied the relationship between race, identity and college attrition among African American male college students. She currently works with individuals and adults in the Loop and in Hyde Park, Chicago.

I recently sat down with Dr. Stafford to explore how race and identity can play into the therapeutic process.