CRITICA

Critica is an inclusive and transdisciplinary publishing platform that focuses on offering a reflective and aesthetic space to consider complex social and cultural issues through psychoanalytic and creative lens. We invite dialogue while offering the possibility of expression and creative expansion of our understanding of contemporary cultural and collective issues in the hopes of promoting social change.

Contents

What Does It Mean to Be a Community? by Elise Geltman, L.C.S.W. – Fragments by Carolina Bacchi, Psy.D. – Changes, Changes, and Changes by Luca Di Donna, Ph.D. – “The World in Fire, Wish to Return to Peace” by Mali Mann, M.D, F.I.P.A. – Return of the Repressed: In Conversation with Anita Barrows (Day 225) by Carolina Bacchi, Psy.D. – PINC Corner (Interviews with Leigh Lyndon, Psy.D, Todd Troutman, Elise Geltman, L.C.S.W., Michael Korson, M.F.T., and Eric Essman, M.A.) by Miriam Barraza, L.M.F.T. – Artwork by Jaswant Guzder – “No one to confess to” by Mike Callaghan – Postcard from London by Michael Korson – “Black and White, Yosemite Mountain” by Mali Mann, M.D, F.I.P.A. – “The Analyst’s Necessary Vertigo” and Vertigo – A preview not a review by Eric Essman – “One Breath One Line” by Theresa Antonellis, M.F.A. – On the Invisible “Of Mere Being” by Christina Garidis, M.A., L.C.S.W. –  A Letter to a Young Writer by Thomas Ogden, M.D. – Sweet Smash Swish by Lydia Panas – A Few Brief Thoughts on Thomas Ogden and Ontological Psychoanalysis by Adam J. Rodríguez, Psy.D. – “Apocalyptic Remains” by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – You can’t live at the carnival by Johanna Murphy, Ph.D. – Artwork by Andrew Lyndon, M.F.A. – On the Question of Dreaming: A Conversation with Freud and the Afterlife of a Childhood Romance by Erica Ehrenberg – She Asks by Way of Instruction by Melissa C. Anderson, MFT, Ph.D. –  Artwork by Dr. Jaswant Guzder – O Land, Hang Down Your Tousled Head by Joyce Schmid, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. – Symmetries of Profiles by Marina Breccia – The Magic Mountain by Volker Münch – Healing Through Dreams by Juli Fraga, Psy.D. – “Oak” by Ruby Rose Lyons – “Rumbling” by Susan Dix Lyons – The Brooding Octopus by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – Italy, 1953: A Sexual Political Delusion by Sergio Benvenuto – Energy Farms by Joyce Schmid, Ph.D., L.M.F.T. – “Overload” by ​​Richard Schnap – Working Under Conditions of War, The Ukraine by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein, Ph.D. – “Ukraine” by Rosalinda Taymor M.D. – “ta soif la mienne” by Mike Callaghan – “Children of Gaia”, “Ithaca” by John Woods, B Ed (Hons) – For a Psychoanalysis that Loves and Respects the Earth by Cosimo Schinaia – “Urgent” and “Fix” by ​​Richard Schnap – Converging Crises as a Humanitarian Worker: Climate Change and Mental Health by Melissa Porrey M.A., LPC, NCC – “Insights” by Richard Schnap – Fouled by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – “Moon Setting Over a Drought-Stricken Lake” by Jon Meyer, M.D. – In Search of Lost Climates by Christina Garidis – Colors by Sristi (Cesi) Malhotra – “Shall we let them in?” Climate Cafes and the Capacity of Traumatized Sensibility by Audrey Martin, M.A., M.F.T. – Photograph by Chris Laurito – Chatbot by Joyce Schmidt, Ph.D., L.M.F.T.