I Stutter
By Geoffrey Greif
The American Psychoanalyst’s Substack
TAP offers a psychoanalytic perspective on mental health, arts and culture, and current events.
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No Hollywood Endings
CAI Currents, August 11, 2026
The Telemachus Complex
Shame, inheritance, and paternal authority in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
The Divided Self of Elliott Smith
Biographer Jamie Fisher on creativity, psychoanalysis, and the need for connection
Designed to be Loved
CAI Currents, July 28, 2026
A Surface Scratched
Improvisation on a dead-end street
A Small Space
What takes, and what returns
Love in the Time of Shareholders
CAI Currents, July 14, 2026
The Scientific Validity of Freud’s Theories and Practice
A guest essay from Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Media
My Therapist Frustrates Me. My Chatbot Doesn’t.
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I’m on the Couch; He’s in the Saddle
A cowboy outfit spurs an analysis
Fantasies of Omnipotence and Legibility
CAI Currents, June 23, 2026
Why “Backrooms” Feels So Uncanny
Sigmund Freud and David Lynch open portals to an enigmatic new film
Comping the Tune
Musical metaphor in a clinical moment
What AI Scribes Rehumanize and Dehumanize in Health Care
CAI Currents, June 9, 2026
Introducing TAP 60.1
New print issue is hitting doorsteps soon
Teaching Freud to Gen Z
Elizabeth Lunbeck presents psychoanalysis as a profession and a guide for living
When Your Other Therapist Is a Chatbot
CAI Currents, May 26, 2026
The Clinical Encounter, Up Close
Five essays for Mental Health Awareness Month
Introducing CAI Currents
A new column on AI and the human mind