At eleven-years-old Frank Spinelli became a Boy Scout and taken under the wing of Scoutmaster Bill Fox, who sexually and mentally abused him. Thirty years later, Frank learns his former Scoutmaster has adopted fifteen boys in the decades since.

Psychoanalyst Dr. Velleda Ceccoli chronicles the changes in ideas about masculinity through the iconic character of James Bond. Ceccoli puts ideas of masculinity in context explaining psychoanalytic and cultural theories as it relates to a shift in our concept of what it is to be a man.

Close relations between two men unite the poems by Scott Bailey and David McLoghlin. Poetry-editor Charif Shanahan writes: “Those intimacies, though wildly different in nature, equally interrogate the role of silence in expressions of love or power between men.”

In an extraordinary feat of creativity, Rick Whittaker wrote an entire novel constructed of sentences taken from other books stealing fewer than 300 words per book without take two sentences together or making any changes, even to punctuation.

In the second part in a series of conversations between porn actors and producers Ben Peck and Nica Noelle, they go deeper in their analysis of the current porn industry and it’s relationship to how we think about sex, gender and sexual identity.

Edmunds insightful essay address the creativity and truthfulness of patient’s symptoms, exquisitely reframing the experience of what it means to be “mentally ill” in our society, turning the concept of diagnosis on it’s head.

Charif Shanahan curates poems by the award-winning poets Maureen McLane, Timothy Liu, and Paula Bohince. The poems presented, though formally and tonally distinct, each augment, complicate, or deepen traditional notions of non-duality and oneness.

Feminist porn, sexual identity, gender roles and women’s desires are discussed in the first of a series of conversations between Nica Noelle, porn director, actor, and media journalist and Benjamin Peck, attorney, porn actor and frequent contributor to Psychology Tomorrow.

We justify killing by relabeling it, just as civilizations always have -- to protect ourselves; to protect our trade interests; to exact retribution. There is nothing new about violence. How we decide when it is justified, is a matter of who holds the power.

In her book, Garden of Desire: The Evolution of Women’s Fantasies, leading British sex writer Emily Dubberley explores the meaning of desire and discovers new truths about female sexuality through self-reported stories, and a survey of contemporary psychology. [TELL US YOUR FANTASIES]

Award winning poet Eleanor Lerman writes from the collective consciousness of her generation about the amazement, amusement and anger they all feel about getting older and the profound realization that there is an enduring mystery ahead.

Robert Frashure investigates whether there might be limits to the conventions of talk therapy, particularly psychoanalysis, and ways in which art might be even more therapeutic and powerful.

While playing games daily, I graduated high school and Columbia University cum laude and law school magna cum laude. I credit video games for improving my critical thinking, decision making, imagination and knowledge of the world.

No story more exquisitely captures the moment when love is no longer blind than Sheila Heti’s "What Changed?" from The Middle Stories, her strikingly original collection of short stories that captures the individuality of our hearts and minds, and at the same time, our shared humanity.

For a half century, Edward Field, now 89, has endured as a treasure of American poetry. He continues to add to his legacy producing work about his experience with aging. PTM previews two poems from his new collection that will be published for 90th birthday next June.

In the first of a two part essay, Robert Frashure addresses fundamental suspicions that many artists have about psychotherapy. Frashure talks with Dr. Danielle Knafo, an esteemed psychoanalyst and art critic in his search for explanations.

Throughout history, human beings have gone to great lengths in search of a unitive or “mystical” experience with Something greater than themselves. For Reverend James Reho Ph.d. you can simply breathe.