New Books in Psychoanalysis: Critical Consciousness
A new interview with Joseph Scalia III and Ben Greenberg available through the New Books Network.
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From the Lithosphere to the Atmosphere… and Back
A poem from IDP member Alex O. Dolabi.
Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
Cathie Bird
The Insufficiency of “Wolf Management”
Joseph Scalia III
Join us Thursday, Jan. 8 – Book Talk
Join us for a Book Talk By: Therapists of New York Thursday, January 8, 2026 Critical Consciousness — Unconscious & Ideological Determinants in Institutional Rigidity Introducing Joseph & Lynne Scalia’s Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and EducationThursday, January 8, 2026 • 1:00–2:00 PM EST • […]
Thoughts on Yang essay, America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
Lynne Scalia, Ed.D. Last week the New York Times published an alarming, but not surprising piece on the uptick of psychiatric diagnoses in youth. The essay is by Jia Lynn Yang, America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? Some of the stats the author lays out are: Even preschool tends to look […]
Can we Create and Sustain an Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis?
Joseph Scalia III Can we Create and Sustain an Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis?[1] Psychoanalysis has always been plagued by disruptions within its politics. In contrast to its popular or currently imaginary meaning, by politics, I mean the collectively creative practice that can only occur in an autonomous society, a society that is necessarily composed […]
From Joseph Scalia III
As we approach our first Community Meeting under the banner of the Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis, as Co-Director I’d like to share something with you about IDP’s logo. It should be seen in two ways. One is a sketch of an analysand lying on the eponymic couch. But the other vision it presents is two bear claws, which form the image of that analysand.