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

The Conundrum of Hope and Despair by Elise Geltman, LCSW – Drip Irrigation by Joyce Schmid, Ph.D., LMFT – Alone In The Dark by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – On Tiles and Flesh by Carolina Bacchi, Psy.D. – Some Reflections on Aliveness and Deadness by Luca Di Donna, Ph.D. – Choreography of Exile by Hailey Ashcraft-Fimiani, M.F.A., M.A. – Radiance by Nadine Helstroffer, Ph.D. – Exit 111 by Ruby Rose Lyons. – Forest Floor by Susan Dix Lyons – California Autumn Dreaming by Rosalinda Taymor, M.D. – Fragments of Becoming: Time as the Medium of the Psyche, by Makhetsi Tessien, MS, LMFT – Abstract, Life & Being Alive by Mali Mann, M.D., F.I.P.A. – A Sad Paven For These Distracted Times by Anita Borrows – Eros and Thanatos by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – Do Not Revise by Elizabeth Metzger, M.F.A. – Surviving Social Death by Quintin Bailey, Psy.D. – Death and Dying by Mali Mann, M.D., F.I.P.A. – Aliveness and Deadness in Murder and Psychosis by Benjamin Diamond, Psy.D. – A Boy with a Calf, Trapped by Mali Mann, M.D., F.I.P.A. – The Ears of My Heart by Terrance McLarnan, M.F.T., F.I.P.A. – Ode to My Analyst by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – Creativity Spawning From Loss by Lisa Koshkarian, Ph.D. – Grandpa’s Lands by Mali Mann, M.D., F.I.P.A – Memorial to Icarus by Maureen Murphy, Ph.D. – Ikaria by Joel Richard Fruchtman – Haunted by Innovation: Technology, Psychoanalysis, and Growing Up in Palo Alto by Kevin Volkan – Widow Soliloquy by Valerie Bellas, Ph.D. – THE DEAD: A Brief Existential and Psychoanalytic Essay by Rosalinda Taymor, M.D. – From the Depths of Deadness to a Sense of Aliveness by Dawn Shifreen-Pomerantz, M.F.T. – My Directive by Nan Bryan, M.F.A. – Archduke Trio, a memorial music by Mali Mann, M.D., F.I.P.A.