Austin Ratner

Editor in Chief of @T_A_Pmag / writer / dad / pretzel enthusiast

[Austin Ratner @austinratner]

Check out the magazine I’m now editing, follow and spread the word! Join what the New York Times calls a Freudaissance @T_A_Pmag @PsychosocialFo1 @psychicsherpa @PsiANorg @psychoanalysis_ @HumanisticPsych @ChicagoAnalysis

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Issue 57.2 reboots TAP with a new look and feel, covering Shakespeare’s dreams, the nightmares of war, measurement-based-care, psychedelic visions, and more. Join the conversation here: https://t.co/DVNevJcwHZ

#psychoanalysis #Freud #psychology #apsa

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Honoring Asian Pacific American Heritage month by reposting Tati Nguyễn's profound personal essay on fleeing Vietnam as a small child as Saigon fell. https://t.co/kVSvwQYgsa
@psychoanalysis_
#APAHM #psychoanalysis #freud

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TAP editor-in-chief @austinratner speaks with Ross Ellenhorn @EllenhornPACT about his intensive “treatment without walls” approach to helping individuals. "The medicine is social inclusion," Ellenhorn says.
https://t.co/mfixYZ8x4K
@psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud

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Eclipse in Brooklyn

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Alan Michael Karbelnig writes that psychoanalysts need to engage climate crisis precisely because they understand "the power of greed, of defensive processes, and the hope offered by positive triangulation"
https://t.co/3AEo7y3y6A
@psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #globalwarming

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TAP editor-in-chief Austin Ratner explores how the ecosystem of internet pornography increasingly acts as a laboratory confirming Freud's most iconic theory: the Oedipus Complex. https://t.co/g7LzCFUzQ7
@psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud #pornography

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@BillAckman Life expectancy was 60 yrs old in 1930

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TAP editor @austinratner speaks with psychologist Sheldon Solomon on death-anxiety, terror management theory, and the crossroads of human existence
https://t.co/FCuBF56s6X
@psychoanalysis_ #psychoanalysis #Freud #ErnestBecker

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

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"The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept that they did anything wrong"

Psychologists: is that better explained by the idea of “cognitive dissonance” or the psychoanalytic / commonsense idea of “denial”? Seems to me the latter? https://t.co/Lj4rdSR3LI

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You see, i find it ironic that personalized ads are pushing at me popular bras for elderly ladies. Everyone knows i prefer unpopular elderly lady bras

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What is the internet trying to tell me

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This tweet with <50 views and no likes or comments is a great example of why, when I want to share what Im reading with larger groups than i can reach on social media, i open a window and yell “hey i am reading Esther Kreitman”

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“Inside the house, destruction weaves its silent web….”

—Esther Kreitman writing on the London Blitz in WWII

She was Isaac Bashevis Singer’s sister, the model for his character Yentl (later played by Barbara Streisand) & a fine writer herself

https://t.co/xpe1aRXRa7

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@JeremyDauber Not a TV receptionist but: Miss Trixie from Confederacy of Dunces

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@pride_web3 @fermatslibrary Bald is the mode brother!

[Sarah-Jane @sarahjfc]

Hello friends - & (belated) here's to this year, to treading water, to balancing improbabilities (which has taken me to a very beautiful and & cold apartment in the middle of nowhere). And of course to theatre curtains, star maps, creatures in ballgowns, because why not 🤍🌹🤍

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“A lot of social science is like looking for black holes; you can only see a phenomenon by what’s situated around it.” —Ross Ellenhorn

[Harry J Zeit MD @HarryZeitMD]

Criticism aside, is it long past time to reassess our approach to ever worsening mental health?
We're learning, painfully so, that we cannot spend our way out of every problem, that many current issues call for more social cohesion, more facilitation of trust and emotional care.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Who?

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“The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”

—MLK, the day before his death

Quote from Heather Cox Richardson @HC_Richardson

https://t.co/qD2A2uLB9j

[Austin Ratner @austinratner]

@MaryannCorbett Fair enough. Curious: does the media get excited anticipating the same debuts you do or others (like those you cite for overpraise)? I mainly write literary fiction and get frustrated with what I often see as hype and commerce packaged as genuine literary enthusiasm