January 2014 – PsychologyTomorrowMagazine

Enlightenment’s Evil Twin

January 28, 2014 Jeff Warren 25

Exploring the Shadow Side of Meditation In 1974 Hans Burgschmidt was sixteen years old, living in the Canadian Prairies, working in a photography studio darkroom, elbow-deep in chemicals all day long. “Is this what life […]

In The Shadow of Sigmund and Lucian Freud

January 28, 2014 Robert Frashure 1

An Interview with British Sculptor Jane McAdam Freud Jane McAdam Freud is a celebrated British sculptor whose works are represented in both national and international public collections: the British Museum, the National Gallery in London, the […] […]

A Man’s Sole: Art and Iconography of Sneakers

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“Our manhood was defined by our acquisition.” (The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison) My first pair of “expensive” basketball shoes came right before my eighth birthday. It was near the tail end of my family’s annual back-to-school […] […]

Return of The Man’s Man: BalletBoyz

January 28, 2014 Velleda C Ceccoli PhD 3

Yes! Men are alive and well in the world of dance. And they are here to stay. Finally. Gone are the notions that dance is just for girls, or for “girlie” boys. In are the […] […]

When It Comes To Sex There is No Difference Between Male and Female Desire

January 28, 2014 Stanley Siegel 3

My daughter Alyssa, a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon, knows me well enough to question and even challenge my thinking where other colleagues might not. Despite my forty years of practice, Alyssa is able to introduce […] […]

Pee-Shy: A Memoir

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An Excerpt from Pee-Shy by Frank Spinelli, M.D. First printed: January, 2014 I arranged to meet Chad at a bar on Ninth Avenue called Kanvas. That Saturday night I arrived early and selected a seat […] […]

A Man’s Heart

January 28, 2014 Tomas Nemec 1

The interests of Tomáš Němec are wide-ranging: He loves films by Pasolini, Hitchcock and Tarantino, is enthusiastic about music, about Chopin and Callas as much as Blondie and Édith Piaf. And still, all these interests […] […]

The Apartness of Things

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To slightly misquote a quotation by the Yale art historian Robert Ferris Thompson, “I am going to tell you what I will tell you. I will then tell you. And then I will tell you […] […]

Misdiagnosed

January 28, 2014 Adam A. Neal 3

“Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking.” With each swear, the scissor blade hit my arms, but the pain never surfaced. I was already in too much pain for it to matter. “Fucking, fucking, fucking, fucking.” I cursed […] […]

Masculinity Redux

January 28, 2014 Velleda C Ceccoli PhD 4

What makes a man a man? Is it biology? Cultural narratives? Societal expectations? All of these certainly shape gendered identity and dictate masculinity and femininity, establishing those characteristics that are considered male, and those that […] […]