International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2

By Categories: Psychoanalysis
 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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AI and Chatbots

By Categories: Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Can Chatbots Ever Provide More Social Connection Than Humans? Open Access Collections: Section: Social Psychology by Dunigan Folk Corresponding Author,  Stephanie Yu and Elizabeth Dunn on the Collabra Psychology.

Click Here to Read: ‘Think outside the bots’: How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush by Thomas Germain on the BBC News website.

IChatbot mage: James grills.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding

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Click Here to Read: Scientists Have Finally Figured Out How Fast the Universe Is Expanding. The most precise measurement of the expansion rate ever made suggests an unknown force may be affecting the universe By  Aylin Woodward on the Washington Post website on May 7, 2026.

The scale of the Universe,  Image ESA/Hubble & NASAAcknowledgement: D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts) and the LEGUS Team,  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tiverse.

How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique

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Click Here to Read: How individual consciousness works – and makes us  unique  by Peter Coppola and Emmanuel A Stamatakis on The Conversation website on  May 1, 2026.

Robert Fludd, Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris […] historia, tomus II (1619), tractatus I, sectio I, liber X, De triplici animae in corpore visione. Image: Robert Fludd Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Othered Bodies with Jamie Steel

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Episode 53 of Voices from ROOM: A Podcast for Analytic Action, “Othered Bodies with Jamie Steele” is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.
This week, Aneta and Isaac speak with Jamie Steele, a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychoanalytic candidate. Steele unpacks an encounter with fatphobia in psychoanalytic training, prompting questions of what bodies are permitted and which are shamed in psychoanalytic spaces. While analysis has shown a growing interest in understanding embodiment, Steele explains how subaltern bodies are still largely excluded from the conversation and literature that shapes our culture.
“I could not stop dwelling on that first question: Can it hold me? Will I fit? My Goldilocks search for an analytic training program, and more specifically for a training analyst, has been a long one, spanning three institutes and nearly a decade.” — Jamie Steele, “Mis/Fitting” ROOM 6.24

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