Desire

Resources & Articles

  • Things We Don’t Say Out Loud: Taboo Topics to Bring to Your Therapist

    Things We Don’t Say Out Loud: Taboo Topics to Bring to Your Therapist

    We’ve previously written about how you don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from psychotherapy, proposing instead that regular and consistent psychotherapy can function as a kind of self-care or protective factor for maintaining your mental health. People often wonder what to talk about in therapy if there’s nothing outwardly “wrong” or “not…

  • Psychoanalytic Theory through Board Games

    Psychoanalytic Theory through Board Games

    We’re excited to share that this month Maggie had an essay published in the Board Game Academics online journal Victory Points! In her essay titled Something More: Nested Realities & Desire in Veiled Fate, Maggie explored Lacanian psychoanalytic theory around desire and ‘nested realities’ through her time playing a game of Veiled Fate. Here’s…