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Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action

Techniques to Manage Your Procrastination: Part II. 8 tips sure to work if you don’t put off using them. Part I of this post is Procrastination: Why You Do It. By Jane Burka, Ph.D. and Lenora Yuen, Ph,D.

Bringing our work home. Work skills applied to personal life may be the wrong tool for the job. Many of us bring our work home with us. Thanks to our electronic devices, we can be plugged in to work 24 hours a day. But there may be a more insidious way we bring our work home with us. By David Braucher, L.C.S.W., Ph.D.

Can a Child Be A Psychopath? Parental fantasies and expectations can influence a child’s personality development. Our culture is fascinated by the idea of child psychopaths. The idea that some infants are born with evil dispositions is explored. Psychoanalytically speaking, expectations contribute substantially to a child’s personality development. By Tiffany McLain, M.S.

Procrastination: What Are We Really Putting Off? Worry about being an “adult” might make us avoid our chores. Imagine the following scenario: You’re running late for an important appointment. You’ve overslept because the alarm app on your phone needs to be updated. By Lisa Juliano, PsyD.

Treating eating disorder symptoms is easier than learning to love one’s body. In my 29 years as a psychoanalyst working with eating disordered patients, I learned the easier part of treatment is symptom alleviation. The more challenging part is helping them understand their relationship to their bodies.

Disordered Eating or Eating Disorder: What’s the Difference? More subtle forms of disordered eating can also be dangerous. It’s pretty easy to diagnose a full-blown eating disorder like Anorexia or Bulimia Nervosa. But more subtle forms of disordered eating are difficult to pinpoint. By Carrie Gottlieb, Ph.D.

About Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action

Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Action (CPIA) is a blog, edited by Susan Kolod, Ph.D. and Melissa Ritter, Ph.D. under the auspices of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, the official journal of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology. Our beat will be broad: the latest in scholarly research, social issues, political controversies, pop culture and current events. Our writers will be keeping an eye out for topics to examine with their unique psychoanalytic mindset; informing readers with a fresh and thoughtfully psychoanalytic angle.