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About Karyne Messina
I am a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. I also maintain a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
After completing my undergraduate studies at Florida Atlantic University, I earned a master’s and a doctoral degree from George Washington University. I completed my post-doctoral training at the Washington School of Psychiatry and the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. I am currently on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital, which is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. In my private practice I treat patients with a variety of mental diagnoses and conduct psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for children, adolescents, adults, couples and families.
In 2011, I served as the interim Executive Director of the Washington School of Psychiatry, a nonprofit mental health organization, and was also the director of the Eugene Meyer Treatment Center, also at the Washington School of Psychiatry.
I maintain active memberships with the American Psychological Association, the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Washington School of Psychiatry, the American Board of Psychoanalysis, The Psychohistory Forum, The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology-Division 39 of the American Psychological Association and Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.
My books include Misogyny, Projective Identification and Mentalization, Psychoanalytic, Social and Institutional Manifestations, London: Routledge, 2019. Aftermath: Healing from the Trump Presidency, Washington, DC, IPI Press, 2020. Resurgence of Global Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Blame-Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy. London: Routledge, 2022. In 2023, Cascade will release my self-help book, It's Not Me, It's You!
Karyne Messina is a licensed psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. She is the author of Resurgence of Populism: A Psychoanalytic Study of Projective Identification, Blame Shifting and the Corruption of Democracy (Routledge, 2022), "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy (PI Press, April 2024) and the forthcoming "A Psychoanalytic Study of Political Leadership in the United States and Russia" (Routledge, May 2024).
NBN Episodes hosted by Karyne:
October 22, 2024
Tyranny of the Minority
America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. …
October 20, 2024
The Aftermath
It's been almost five years since a wrathful extraterrestrial called Rex perpetrated a mass shooting that caused hundreds of millions of people to tak…
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
September 3, 2024
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts Sp…
September 1, 2024
The Power of Community
An Amazon # 1 top release Kindle book during its debut, The Power of Community: A 45 Day Action Plan to Stop Trump from Turning Our Democracy into His…
August 7, 2024
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host discu…
June 24, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings in the …
May 27, 2024
60 Days to a Greener Life
Heather White brings two decades of environmental advocacy work and national nonprofit leadership to life with her joyful and practical books on tackl…
April 28, 2024
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis
Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis (Pi Press, 2024) is not merely a book but a call to action-a rallying cry for societal introspection and…
March 19, 2024
Spinning Out
Charlie Hertzog Young became a climate activist in his early teens. His journey led him onto airport runways and into the halls of power, but also to …
January 21, 2024
Ghostwriting Psychology and Overcoming Anxiety Associated with Writer’s Block
Barbara Richter is an accomplished author, public speaker, French-to-English translator, and founder of DIYBook and In Ink Ghostwriting. Raised in a h…
December 6, 2023
A Conversation with Austin Ratner, the New Editor of "The American Psychoanalyst"
Austin Ratner has an interesting background. After graduating from medical school he decided to change careers. Rather than continuing in medicine he …
October 11, 2023
Parenting and Climate Change
Today I talked to Jenni Silverstein and Elizabeth Bechard about their study (co-authored with Jennifer Walker) "What are the Impacts of Concern about …
September 29, 2023
The Thriving Lawyer
Traci Cipriano's book The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023) is based on a…
September 6, 2023
New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare
Dr. Richard Waugaman is an emeritus supervising and training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. He is also a well-respecte…
August 27, 2023
The Judgment
Today I talked to CK Westbrook about The Judgment (4 Horsemen Publications, 2023), book 3 of "The Impact Series." Kate thought the world was finally…
August 11, 2023
Ruptures in the American Psyche
Michael J. Diamond's book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times (Phoenix Publishing, 2022) describes Trum…
August 5, 2023
One Green Thing
The climate crisis and its resulting eco-anxiety is the biggest challenge of our time. The anxiety that comes with worrying about how environmental ha…
July 22, 2023
Mental Illness Is an Asshole
Today I talked to Gabe Howard about his book Mental Illness Is an Asshole: And Other Observations (DGC Press, 2018). Howard has an interesting story…
July 19, 2023
The Collision
Today I talked to CK Westbrook about The Collision (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022), volume 2 of the "The Impact Trilogy." As the world continues to r…
July 2, 2023
The Shooting
In The Shooting (4 Horsemen Publications, 2022), the first book in a trilogy, CK Westbrook superbly places real-life characters in a fantasy world fil…
June 29, 2023
Schizophrenia
In Schizophrenia: Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022), Kevin Volkan and Vamık Volkan present a comprehensive study o…
June 6, 2023
The Wrongful Conviction of Oscar Pistorius
Just when the world thought Oscar Pistorius’ meteoric rise to Olympic glory and international celebrity had terminated abysmally in prison, Brent Will…
May 19, 2023
The Octopus in the Parking Garage
One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral. …