On Writing and Its Invitations

On Writing and Its Invitations

By Eric MendelsohnThank you to Cara Maniaci for her invitation to write, and to Diane Malkin and Chris Nardozzi for their facilitation. I Writers contend with the tension between originality and indebtedness. This is the central claim of the literary theorist Harold...
The Unconscious as Inspiration: Surrealism at 100

The Unconscious as Inspiration: Surrealism at 100

By Carter Thornton, LP, LCAT 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, a document that sparked an art movement deeply intertwined with psychoanalysis. Though the movement started in central Europe, largely in reaction to people’s inability to make...
A Moment of Real Impact – It’s Here!

A Moment of Real Impact – It’s Here!

By Wade Anderson, PhD I imagine that at least a few of you who are reading this know who Deion Sanders is. He goes by Coach Prime these days and has taken over the head-coaching position for football at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sanders was previously known...
My Weird Barbie, My Self

My Weird Barbie, My Self

By Cara Maniaci, MA, LCSW I too had a Weird Barbie. When I was about 11 or 12, my best friend Sarah and I gathered our Barbies, some hairspray and glue, nail polish remover and marker. We mismatched and cut up the Barbies’ clothes. We removed some of their printed-on...
The Masters

The Masters

By Erica Forest, LCSW Rodrigo Garcia penned a letter to his deceased father, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in the New York Times on May 6th, 2020, explaining that we were in a pandemic; he wondered what his father would have thought of it. The titles of Garcia Marquez’s...