Lessons in Psychology: Freedom, Liberation, and Reaction

A Descriptive Psychologist and Psychoanalyst's exploration of the behavioral logic of freedom, liberation and reaction. Short takes on the qualities that make us human: empathy, ethics, aesthetics, improvisation and play.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Got Uranium? Iran Does.

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A synthesized analysis built from Perplexity AI : A single full enriched-uranium UF6 cylinder is a steel vessel roughly the size of a small ...

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Freedom, Attention, and the Staging of Awareness

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I have written before about the wandering, directed, and coerced mind — and more recently about stacked activation and captured attention. T...

Sunday, March 8, 2026

American Reactionary Politics: A 2026 Reckoning

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An update to “ A Note on American Reactionary Politics” (May 2016) March 2026 The uncanny of real experiences… invariably accords with our ...

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Saturday, March 7, 2026

Stacked Activation and Captured Attention

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A field note before noon Suspense Without Motion I woke this morning with an irritated feeling that something ought to be done—that I needed...

Monday, February 23, 2026

On Responsiveness, Captured Attention, and the Weight of Being Outside

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I have been writing about large language models, The Trickster in the Bot , but the book is not really about machines. It is about the respo...

Sunday, February 22, 2026

The Trickster Reflects on Itself: Personhood Without an Occupant

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The Trickster Reflects on Itself: Personhood Without an Occupant ( Prompts are italicized) Many of my students have shared threads from...

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Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D. wynnschwartz.com

Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D.: Lecturer, Harvard Medical School. Editorial Boards, The American Journal of Psychotherapy & Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

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