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Zak Mucha
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social worker, psychoanalyst, author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work... and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Author Michael Zapata and I will be discussing "Trauma and American Fascism" at After-Words Books in Chicago. Thurs, 9/11 at 6:30. You can sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This Friday, Aug 22nd 6PM. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/emotional-...
August 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
on the air (after Black Sabbath) talking about poetry, trauma, psychoanalysis and emotional abuse at WZRD 88.3 FM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-vR...
August 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- #1 New Release (for the moment) in medical child psychology... bit.ly/44ZE5zr
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
"Two Teachers (for Tova)" in AEOS Magazine
July 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
zakmucha.com/blog

"Like any other abuse, emotional abuse is about power. Whoever can define reality has the ultimate power."
July 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This Friday, June 20th-Dr. Alan Bass will discuss "The Genocide Principle" at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. You can join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825601
June 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Emotional Abuse: A Manual for Self-Defense -- currently #1 new release in child development on Kindle... www.amazon.com/Emotional-Ab...
June 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"There is no real difference between physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. All that distinguishes one from another is the abuser’s choice of weapon."
—Andrew Vachss

bit.ly/4kNKZhH
May 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This Sunday at Roscoe Books. 7 pm...
May 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
May 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
May 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
April 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Chicago mobster Kenny Eto took a bullet to the head and left the ER with two band aids: "A Dream of Joe Peschi and Kenny Eto"-- theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/04...
April 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"An American Ambulatorium" in The Center for Critical and Clinical Analysis: www.cccacommunity.com/an-american-...
April 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis presents Peter Shabad, PhD, asking, "Is it Better to Love and Lose or Never Love at All?" on Friday, April 25th 7 PM on Zoom. Join us here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825586
#psychoanalysis
April 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
April 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
sign up at ccpsa.org for Don Carveth, PhD, discussing his 45 year journey through psychoanalysis on Fri, April 4th at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
#psychoanalysis
March 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Register here for Matt Hiller's presentation on dissociation, trauma, and ketamine: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825579
#trauma#ketamine
March 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
March 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
... coming in July
March 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A poem published by Aeos...
#poetry#noir
March 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"Night Science" published in the Literary Underground.
#poetry
theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02...
February 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From the second issue of Aeos Magazine
February 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis hosts Howard Levine, MD on Fri, March 7th for his presentation, "Minding the Gap". Register here: www.ccpsa.org/event-5825575
#psychoanalysis
February 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM