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What Ki Teitzei Teaches Us About the Morality of War
Your 18Forty Parsha Guide is a weekly newsletter exploring five major takeaways from the weekly parsha. Receive this newsletter every week in…
Day 7: Attachment
In Theory: John Bowlby proposed that human beings are organized around the need for attachment and the search for closeness with a…
Day 6: Free Association
In Theory: Free association is a fundamental method within the psychodynamic tradition that becomes possible only within a structure that can hold…
Ma Lecha Nirdam? How Selichot Wake Us Up
I Read This Over Shabbos is a weekly newsletter from Rivka Bennun Kay about Jewish book culture, book recommendations, and modern ideas.…
Day 5: The Therapist’s Neutrality
In Theory: Classical psychodynamic theory prized the therapist as a kind of mirror, reflecting without adding advice, judgment, or personal agenda. Contemporary…
Eli Rubin: ‘The Arizal was the first herald of modernity’
Eli Rubin joins us to discuss how Jewish mysticism changed modernity.
Day 4: The Holding Environment
In Theory: D. W. Winnicott described the holding environment as something warmer than structure alone. For an infant, holding is literal, involving…
Day 3: Early Relationships
In Theory: The object relations tradition, developed by British analysts such as Melanie Klein, proposed that the human mind is shaped at…
Day 2: The Therapeutic Frame
In Theory: The unconscious cannot be approached directly, and the psychodynamic tradition dictates that it requires a structure that can hold what…
Day 1: The Unconscious
In Theory: Psychodynamic theory begins with the single unsettling proposition that much of what drives us is not available to awareness. Sigmund…
Good Enough Elul: What This Is and Is Not
A New Approach to Elul This is not a guide to teshuva, an approach to moral accounting, or an attempt to deepen…
I’m a Psychodynamic Therapist. Here’s What That Means.
Often, when I tell people I’m a therapist, they assume I offer practical advice or protocol-driven interventions, a view shaped partly by…