Rebecca Coleman Curtis, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Psychology, Adelphi University, and Faculty, White Institute in New York. She is the author of Desire, Self, Mind, and the Psychotherapies: Unifying Psychological Science and Psychoanalysis, editor or co-editor of eight books, and has published numerous articles and given over 100 presentations around the world.
The importance of knowing and being known is at the heart of the human experience and has always been the core of the psychoanalytic enterprise. Freud named his central Oedipal construct after... (more)
Watching people protest, one hypothesis is that underlying these actions for specific justifiable causes is a sense of wishing to belong, of wishing not to be alone. Recent knowledge from patients... (more)