The modern world is fraught with ever-mounting great worries. Two local authors will concurrently describe motivations for and key themes in their recent books. The books are founded in the domains of psychoanalysis, environmental engineering, environmentalism generally, and education.
A song that speaks to our present conjuncture and spirits by musician and psychoanalyst David Exley.
A new interview with Joseph Scalia III and Ben Greenberg available through the New Books Network.
A poem from IDP member Alex O. Dolabi.
Cathie Bird
Joseph Scalia III
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 • […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.