Austin Ratner

Check out the magazine I’m now editing, follow and spread the word! Join what the New York Times calls a Freudaissance @T_A_Pmag @PsychosocialFo1 @psychicsherpa @PsiANorg @psychoanalysis_ @HumanisticPsych @ChicagoAnalysis

Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage month by reposting Tati Nguyễn's profound personal essay on fleeing Vietnam as a small child as Saigon fell. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/d… @psychoanalysis_ #APAHM #psychoanalysis #freud

TAP editor-in-chief @austinratner speaks with Ross Ellenhorn @EllenhornPACT about his intensive “treatment without walls” approach to helping individuals. "The medicine is social inclusion," Ellenhorn says. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/o… @psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud

Eclipse in Brooklyn

Alan Michael Karbelnig writes that psychoanalysts need to engage climate crisis precisely because they understand "the power of greed, of defensive processes, and the hope offered by positive triangulation" tapmagazine.org/all-articles/b… @psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #globalwarming

TAP editor-in-chief Austin Ratner explores how the ecosystem of internet pornography increasingly acts as a laboratory confirming Freud's most iconic theory: the Oedipus Complex. tapmagazine.org/all-articles/o… @psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud #pornography

@BillAckman Life expectancy was 60 yrs old in 1930

Take a look at New Yorkers in 1930 after a decade of economic exuberance. There were no gyms, SoulCycles, yoga classes, or running shoes. There were no diets, Ozempic, USDA pyramids or degrees in nutrition science. Yet, look at how lean everyone is. There is no obesity. Makes you wonder about the food and soft drink industrial complex and our government’s oversight of our citizens’ health.

TAP editor @austinratner speaks with psychologist Sheldon Solomon on death-anxiety, terror management theory, and the crossroads of human existence tapmagazine.org/57issue2/valid… @psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud #ErnestBecker

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

"The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong" Psychologists: is that better explained by the idea of “cognitive dissonance” or the psychoanalytic / commonsense idea of “denial”? Seems to me the latter? washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

You see, i find it ironic that personalized ads are pushing at me popular bras for elderly ladies. Everyone knows i prefer unpopular elderly lady bras

What is the internet trying to tell me

This tweet with <50 views and no likes or comments is a great example of why, when I want to share what Im reading with larger groups than i can reach on social media, i open a window and yell “hey i am reading Esther Kreitman”

“Inside the house, destruction weaves its silent web….” —Esther Kreitman writing on the London Blitz in WWII She was Isaac Bashevis Singer’s sister, the model for his character Yentl (later played by Barbara Streisand) & a fine writer herself yiddishbookcenter.org/language-liter…

@JeremyDauber Not a TV receptionist but: Miss Trixie from Confederacy of Dunces

Watching MOONLIGHTING and wondering what the apotheosis of the flaky receptionist is - Allyce Beasely as Agnes DiPesto clearly is in the top tier, but who's the best? And who's the first?

@pride_web3 @fermatslibrary Bald is the mode brother!

@fermatslibrary pathetic that I'm bald 👀

The average person, depending on their hair color, has between 90,000 and 150,000 hairs on their head. According to the pigeon-hole principle, this implies that in any large city, there are people with the exact same number of hairs on their head.

Hello friends - & (belated) here's to this year, to treading water, to balancing improbabilities (which has taken me to a very beautiful and & cold apartment in the middle of nowhere). And of course to theatre curtains, star maps, creatures in ballgowns, because why not 🤍🌹🤍

“A lot of social science is like looking for black holes; you can only see a phenomenon by what’s situated around it.” —Ross Ellenhorn

Criticism aside, is it long past time to reassess our approach to ever worsening mental health? We're learning, painfully so, that we cannot spend our way out of every problem, that many current issues call for more social cohesion, more facilitation of trust and emotional care.

@RpsAgainstTrump Who?

How will history remember Vivek Ramaswamy?

“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” —MLK, the day before his death Quote from Heather Cox Richardson @HC_Richardson open.substack.com/pub/heathercox…

@MaryannCorbett Fair enough. Curious: does the media get excited anticipating the same debuts you do or others (like those you cite for overpraise)? I mainly write literary fiction and get frustrated with what I often see as hype and commerce packaged as genuine literary enthusiasm