Podcasts by Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
Psychoanalysis applied outside the office.
Further podcasts by Harvey Schwartz MD
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The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Michael Levin, Psy.D and Adam Blum, Psy.D (San Francisco Bay Area) from 2023-12-03T11:00
"The fact that music is so important for our constitution - that music is almost how we move in the world, that our own bodies are played through by musical forms, that the way we rela...
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IPA Prejudices, Discrimination and Racism Committee with Abel Fainstein, MD (Buenos Aires) from 2023-11-19T11:00
“Discrimination is something that is needed for the child to create himself as a person. You need to be discriminated from the other, and the other is useful for you, as Freud said, as...
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Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Ehrlich-Ginor, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv) from 2023-11-01T10:00
“The situation was that I went with my husband Danny, who is also a clinical psychologist, and we were on the team that came and told people when family members were identified and th...
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Treatment of Child Soldiers: Traditional Healers and their Dynamic Underpinnings with Martha Bragin, PhD MSW (New York) from 2023-10-29T10:00
"The gift of the [traditional] healer that he shares with those of us who do psychoanalytic work is that we are given an idea of the human mind as being always in a process of mediatin...
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Why Winnicott? Joel Whitebook, PhD (New York) interviews Jan Abrams, PhD (London) from 2023-10-15T10:00
"Instead of the analyst being in a position where they know something about the patient, they are with the patient. As Winnicott says in his late work, if you are a philosopher in your...
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From Filmmaking to Psychoanalysis with Karen Dougherty, FIPA (Toronto) from 2023-10-01T10:00
"I made a film for PepWeb on the research of Beatrice Beebe. I made the video for her picture book, The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book, and various other short films. These are...
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The Presence of Religion within the Psychoanalytic Dyad with Nathan Szajnberg, MD (Palo Alto) from 2023-09-17T10:00
"We know as analysts there’s a long literature on mourning and its connection to creativity from the time of Freud’s work to George Pollock's work and others - but that's too intellect...
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Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times with Don Carveth, PhD (Toronto) from 2023-09-03T10:00
"Conscience represents ethics that are not socially constructed and not socially learned but built-in. In fact, the whole of psychoanalysis is grounded in such an ethic - we all as ana...
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Are Patients Different Today? with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna) from 2023-08-06T10:00
"One of the changes that analysis provided me with was an awareness about how similar we all are, of course with a few differences. For me, an analyst is before all a person who had th...
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From Technology to Psychoanalysis with Nicolle Zapien, PhD (Oakland) from 2023-07-22T20:00
"Technology is based on the premise that there can be an optimization of things through algorithmic understanding. ‘Ones and zeros’ data can be manipulated and thus produce an optimal ...
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High - Conflict Divorce: Psychoanalytic Perspectives with Arthur Leonoff, Ph.D. (Ottawa) from 2023-07-09T10:00
"In divorce it's fundamental that even though the couple ends, there's not an end to the family. We still owe a debt to the other - that other who offered to love us, who we had the op...
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The Role of Defense Analysis in Child (and Adult) Treatment with Leon Hoffman, MD (New York) from 2023-06-25T10:00
“The basic principle in defense analysis is that one approaches what is going on right now - it's an experience-near technique. You don't make conjectures about what would be called e...
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Freud's Nephew and the Creation of 'Buzz' around Psychoanalysis with Joseph Malherek, Ph.D. (Raleigh, North Carolina) from 2023-06-11T10:00
"He [Bernays] proposed to his uncle that he’d do a translation of this book that had been given to him and Freud, perhaps without thinking too much about it, approved the idea. Berna...
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Technique is Character Rationalized with Lee Grossman, MD (Oakland, Ca.) from 2023-05-28T13:00
"Analytic candidates in training struggle with the fact that you tend to get thrown into the deep water before you really know what you're doing. Then, the anxious candidate will typic...
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One Analyst - Two Continents: Treatment Differences? with Jeanne Wolff- Bernstein, Ph.D. (Vienna) from 2023-05-14T10:00
"When you're with a patient you take all that you know in your head, all the theory, and you throw it away. You have to listen to the patient and ...
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International Commentaries on the State of our Field with Fred Busch, Ph.D. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) from 2023-04-30T10:00
"I've long had concerns about the practice of psychoanalysis and that the theory underlying it has become a veritable Tower of Babel. We have these multiple views where everything is a...
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Children Exposed to Pornography: the Erosion of Latency with Franco D’Alberton, Ph.D.&Andrea Scardovi, MD, Ph.D. (Bologna) from 2023-04-16T10:00
"They interviewed more than 6,000 American parents and their children from ages eight to thirteen. They wanted to identify what the perception and...
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“Music Sounds the Way Emotion Feels”: from the Piano to the Couch with Julie Nagel, PhD (Dexter, Michigan) from 2023-04-02T10:00
"Some of the shared concepts - even words that psychoanalysis and musicians use - such as conflict, ambiguity, silences, dissonance, resolution or not, working through, is in the Mozar...
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Freud Encounters C.S. Lewis as imagined by Mark St. Germain from 2023-02-19T11:00
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Evil with Dr. Roger Kennedy (London) from 2023-02-05T11:00
"I feel as a psychoanalyst one has to respond to the world. We can’t just simply remain in our consulting rooms although that has a...
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Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima) from 2023-01-22T11:00
"Psychoanalysis is a translation of what I call in Spanish, Psicoanalisis Criollo, which means that we are hybrid cultures in Latin...
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Psychoanalysis and Opera – rejoining the verbal and non-verbal with Steven Goldberg, MD and Lee Rather, Ph.D. (San Francisco) from 2023-01-08T11:00
“Unconsciously, or sometimes just without really focusing on it, we’re always responding to the musicality of the patient’s voice. ...
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Psychoanalytic Fieldwork: A Woman Psychanalyst (Training Analyst IPA) Working in Eastern Africa with Dr. phil. Barbara Saegesser (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) from 2022-12-11T11:00
"The psychoanalytic frame I have built in myself helps me to find a way to not go too near and not be too distant to a person. It is other than what we learn ...
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Teaching Dynamic Therapy through Storytelling with Anne Adelman, Ph.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) and Kerry Malawista, Ph.D. (Potomac, MD) from 2022-11-27T11:00
“When I first started teaching it was most often done through theory, and teaching these complicated words with hard-to-understand concepts. It never made sense to...
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Analytic Desire, Listening and Letting Go with Mitchell Wilson, MD (Berkeley) from 2022-11-13T11:00
"It seemed to me in my training, also in my scholarly pursuits, that desire did not have conceptual status in most analytic clinical theory. Most traditions did no...
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Polish Psychoanalysis, Ukraine and Intergenerational Trauma with Edyta Biernacka (Krakow) from 2022-10-30T10:00
"During the treatment they start to think about their family, they want to understand what really happened to their parents that made them such monsters towards th...
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Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran) from 2022-10-16T10:00
"Aren't these daughters of Persia retelling that myth [Shahnameh] as we speak - they put their hair down, Rudabeh put her hair down...
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From Neurology to Psychoanalysis with Iftah Biran, MD (Tel Aviv) and Rachel Gross, MD (Philadelphia) from 2022-10-02T10:00
"I started with an analyst right as I was ending residency and starting the fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorde...
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Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD from 2022-09-18T10:00
"I feel very often that I can detect when people are doing case presentations, this ubiquitous tendency to not bother about the bod...
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From Education to Psychoanalysis with Susana Merlo, MA (Buenos Aires) and Ellen Pinsky, PsyD (Cambridge, Mass) from 2022-09-04T10:00:04
"I think that writing also is among the things that help me think this through and get there. When I finished my degree, I was actually very pessimistic - I had no...
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“Nothing is Unimportant” - Contemporaneous Records of Mass Trauma: The Ringelblum Archive with Samuel Kassow, PhD from 2022-08-21T10:00
"The Archive begins in 1940. The Germans themselves do not decide they are going to murder all the Jews, they don’t decide on the F...
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Dynamic Psychotherapy of a Tortured Patient: Mentalization, Counter-transference, and Culture with Sverre Varvin, MD, Dr. Philos (Oslo, Norway) from 2022-07-17T10:00
"I think every encounter with the patient is a potential re-humanizing experience, also for me as a therapist. Because when we are slowly experiencing this ki...
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The Analyst's Early Experiences: Emerging Themes in Theory and Practice with Karen Maroda, PhD from 2022-07-03T10:00
"We are chosen [as children] for the roles of peacekeeper, soother, and possibly entertainer at times, because we temperamentally h...
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Older Analysts Aging Well with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD from 2022-06-19T10:00
“Everyone was all for inclusion. There wasn't anybody who felt that this movement for inclusion was anything but good. But there we...
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An Analyst's Journey to Authenticity and Presence with Henry Markman, MD from 2022-06-05T10:00:04
"What you are describing in the process of reading the book is what I am aspiring to which is a kind of deep emotional dialogue both in the book with the reader, but ...
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The Psychoanalytic Consultant with Glen Gabbard, MD (Houston) from 2022-05-22T10:00
"The role that an analyst plays is so important in terms of how people can be wounded, shamed and hurt in a variety of different wa...
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PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities) and Working with Ukrainian Current Atrocities with Mira Erlich-Ginor (Tel-Aviv) from 2022-05-08T10:00
"You can do as much about the legacy of the Holocaust - and what I took from my depressed mother who lost all her family in the Hol...
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The Masculine Trajectory and the Development of Male Interiority with Michael Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles) from 2022-04-24T10:00
“The father carries the separation function which is very import...
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Report from Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society with Igor Romanov, Ph.D. (Kharkiv) from 2022-04-05T22:00
"I have some very close friends in Russia and some of them emigr...
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A Psychoanalyst Administers Ketamine with Gita Vaid, MD from 2022-03-27T10:00
"One of the things that I find absolutely remarkable about psych...
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A Conversation with Ukrainian Psychoanalyst Oleksandra Mirza (Kyiv, Ukraine) from 2022-03-16T01:27:36
"We understand that we are not alone. It is crucially important...
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Musical Improvisation and Free Association with Rafael Ornstein, MD from 2022-03-06T11:00:16
"Patients may be bringing in harmonies that are tough to connect, fragments of life or things that cannot be integrated. And part of the improvisation in a wa...
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The Eyes, The Drives, and Culture with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD from 2022-02-20T11:00:07
"I'm interested in with what mind and what imagination and thoughts and association one person l...
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Addictive Pornography: Psychoanalytic Considerations with Claudia Spadazzi, MD and Jose Zusman, MD from 2022-02-06T11:00:23
"We are all dependent and potentially addicted as well. We regularly use addictive objects whene...
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Trauma and the Capacity for Gratitude with Heinz Weiss, MD (Stuttgart) from 2022-01-23T10:23:47
"The acknowledgment of guilt it’s a prerequisite for reparation. There is no reparation without ...
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Extendiendo los Horizontes del Psicoanálisis Hacia lo Social y lo Comunitario con Heli Morales, PhD (Ciudad de México) from 2022-01-09T11:00
"La gran propuesta que queremos avanzar a la sociedad civil, a l...
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'Splitting' in Our Political and Social Discourse: Psychoanalytic Considerations with Ronald Doctor, MD (London) from 2021-12-12T11:00
"In conflict, especially in war when we have massive conflict, e...
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An Elder Shares his Legacy with Gilbert Kliman, MD from 2021-11-28T11:00
“The students are fascinated to see that someone who ordinarily ...
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Meet the IPA's New President: Harriet Wolfe, MD from 2021-11-14T11:00
"A large group [of analysts] sitting in the circular Tavistock m...
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Off the Couch and into the Political Arena with John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych (Oxford) from 2021-10-31T10:00
"I decided I would try to understand things psychologically beca...
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Why Do We Read Books? Literature and Psychoanalysis with Merav Roth, Ph.D. from 2021-10-17T10:00
"I jump into a book - we take a book into our hands, and I becom...
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The 4th Wall and the Movable Analytic Frame with Isacc Tylim, PsyD from 2021-10-03T10:00
"The frame begins to cry - something gets broken in the analytic...
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Presidential Reflections on Psychoanalysis with Virginia Ungar, MD (Buenos Aires) from 2021-09-19T10:00
“First, when we started to work online, it was exhausting. Now, ...
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Fifty Years On, a Survivor of Torture Reflects on his Therapeutic Practice with John Schlapobersky, BA MSc (London) from 2021-09-05T07:00
They forced me into this tiny little interrogation room off the ...
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The Return to the Office with Marilia Aisenstein, Part II from 2021-08-22T10:00
I observe what many of the French analysts and my supervisees sa...
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Cultural Complexity: Palestinian Therapist - Jewish Patient with Roney Srour, PhD from 2021-08-08T10:00
A decade ago I started to tell my colleagues that there is somet...
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Large Groups, Diplomacy, and Psychoanalysis with Vamik Volkan, MD from 2021-07-25T10:00
"Thousands or millions of people who will never meet each other ...
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Wisdom and Enthusiasm for Today's Candidates with Fred Busch, PhD from 2021-07-11T10:00
"I was somebody who all throughout my academic career was very a...
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A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Mass Murder - the Norway Experience with Dr. philos. Siri Erika Gullestad from 2021-06-27T10:00
"She [his mother] felt that his kicking was deliberate evil and she responded with wishes for an abortion. She also stopped breastfeeding beca...
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Psychoanalysis during Wartime: The Israeli Experience with Yolanda Gampel, PhD from 2021-06-13T10:00
"In such moments [of ...
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An Independent Thinker: Joel Whitebook Interviews Fred Pine from 2021-05-30T10:00
"A big part of my graduate education at Harvard was critical thinking. The general idea tha...
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The Elder Analyst with Malkah Notman, MD from 2021-05-16T10:00
"In the group that I co-chair on the Aging Analyst we’ve talked a lot about what difference it makes having practiced a long time. One of the ideas that emerged is not only that t...
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Repairing the Other - Our Planet with Sally Weintrobe from 2021-05-02T10:00
"I started to notice that the very things that I was seeing in p...
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Thoughts about Termination with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD from 2021-04-18T10:00
"It’s very exhilarating to have shared an in-depth experience with another person the way you do as an analyst. You know the inner workings of people’s struggles, of their strengt...
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A Psychoanalytic COVID Workbook for Children in South Africa with Jennifer Davids, M.Sc. from 2021-04-04T10:00
"The workbook contextualizes the child in his or her network. The idea being that the more the child has a supportive network and that they can use this network, the more they will be able t...
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Psychoanalytic Curiosity and Boundaries with Philip Stokoe (London) from 2021-03-21T10:00
"What kind of home [institute] have you got to live in? If you design a home, not as a refuge but where there is a place to be able to think, it’s a slightly different concept. I’...
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A Psychoanalyst and Magic Moments: Working with Caregivers of Traumatized Children with Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge, Mass.) from 2021-03-07T11:00
"We, as analysts, really need to use our psychoanalytic understanding of the value of the inner life of every individual and of the value of growth and development that occurs in ...
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Episode 79: Shame, Guilt, and Ruminations with Donald Carveth, Ph.D. (Toronto) from 2021-02-21T11:00
"Persecutory guilt is simply a form of self-attack, it is tormenting and it belongs to the paranoid schizoid position and it is narcissistic. People sometimes don’t fully recogniz...
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Episode 078: The Freuds in Vienna, 1933-38 with Ilana Offenberger, Ph.D. from 2021-02-07T11:00
"Each one of these individuals who I interviewed, watched their testimony or read their last words in the desperate letters they wrote to Nazi agencies asking for a little more ti...
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Episode #77: The Psychoanalyst in the Business World with Kenneth Eisold, PhD (New York) from 2021-01-24T11:00
"By sitting down with me, they were really, in a way, forced to be more reflective, so I had only reflected back to them some of what they were saying and not paying attention to, but I thin...
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Episode 076: Torture, Rehumanization, and Psychoanalysis with Vladimir Jovic, MD, PhD from 2021-01-10T11:00
“Every individual reaction was specific and idiosyncratic – it was absolutely related to the previous experience. Even the symptoms that were formed could be understood as the reaction to ad...
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Episode 075: Unconscious Communication within the Psychoanalytic Dyad with Marsha Hewitt, PhD from 2020-12-27T11:00
"When you think about the analyst's reverie - we are in a session and something is happening, the patient is telling you something and your mind starts to drift - an image co...
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Episode 074: Analyst Daughters of Famous Fathers Write Memoirs: A Conversation between Susan Mailer and Joan Wheelis, MD from 2020-12-13T11:00
"My dad also revealed a lot of himself in his writing which made it difficult for me, because I also had the sense that I was looking into a private space that was his own. I...
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Episode 073: The Social Order and a Transgressive Psychoanalysis with Stephen Frosh, PhD. from 2020-12-06T11:00
“There is a history of psychoanalysis and its relationship with political thought and even political action. There is clearly quite a strong historical tradition of a sort of rebe...
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Episode 071: Learning Psychoanalysis in the Time of COVID with Cindi Palman, MD from 2020-11-08T11:00
“We all have misattunements - but when we are present together, sometimes we can have a misattunement with our words or our tone of voice, but we may not have a misattunement of o...
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Episode 069: A Life in Academia, Anthropology, and Psychoanalysis with Robert Paul, PhD from 2020-10-18T10:00
"There are things that arise in later life that have to do with the conflict of cultures that arises when you’re dealing with someone who either is an immigrant or is the chi...
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Episode 068: The Fate of Magic in Psychoanalysis with Joel Whitebook, PhD from 2020-10-04T10:00
"The goal is to find magic which is not psychotic, to find a form of magic which isn’t simply the denial of reality. The nonpsychotic form of magic is play. The analyst and the pa...
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Episode 067: Creativity in the Analyst and Analysand in Times of COVID with Ilany Kogan from 2020-09-27T10:00
“I think that the analyst has to be in touch with his anxiety in order to be able to understand the patient's anxiety. But he has to not be drowned in such anxiety in order to be ...
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Episode 066: Otherness, Anti-Semitism and Psychoanalysis with Dr. Werner Bohleber from 2020-09-20T10:00
“It’s a big job to accept the otherness of the other. This places demands on the psychological processing of each individual to tolerate the otherness of the other. Therefore...
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Episode 065: Psychoanalysis at the Interface of the Community and the Police with Steven Marans, Ph.D. from 2020-09-13T10:00
"I hope that out of these tragedies there is an opportunity not only to express the intensity of our reactions but to get back down to the detailed business of understanding ...
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Episode 064: From Martin Luther King to Wall Street: Transitions In the Life of a Psychoanalyst: An Interview with Kathleen Pogue White Ph.D. (New York) from 2020-09-06T10:00
“They changed my analysis, it went from ‘I’m not actually a patient I’m just a lump here, reporting’, to being a patient. I didn’t understand the work until a...
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Episode 063: Tiempo Especial. Un tiempo de Juego Para los Niños y Jóvenes de las Calles con Mónica Cardenal, Ph.D. (Special Time. A Time to Play for Children and Young People Living in the Street with Mónica Cardenal, Ph.D.) from 2020-08-30T10:00
"Nuestra propuesta de trabajo a la institución fue la de i...
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Episode 062: History and Psychoanalysis: Reflections with Peter Loewenberg, PhD from 2020-08-16T10:00
"Historians have had to learn to explore their own subjectivity in dealing with the past. They can only see what they are prepared to see and they have frequently blocked out...
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Episode 061: A Report from Calcutta and the Changing Role of Women in Psychoanalysis with Jhuma Basak, PhD from 2020-08-09T10:00
"The schools of thought differed very strongly. The Calcutta school primarily belonged to the classical Freudian school of thought whereas Bombay worked from a very structure...
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Episode 060: Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Academia with Robert Michels, M.D from 2020-07-26T10:00
"I don't think you derive technical rules or interpretive strategies from theory. I think that what we do instead is to try to be open-minded, available and resonant with wha...
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Episode 059: Narcissism and Leadership, Revisited with Michael Maccoby Ph.D. (Washington, DC) from 2020-07-19T10:00
“I went back looking at one of the qualities of leadership we need particularly no...
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Episode 058: 'To Make a Meaningful Life': Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis with Melvin Bornstein, MD from 2020-07-05T10:00
“Once we put things together and express them to somebody, something happens. We become more alive - because we are expressing what we are expressing in terms of what is real...
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Episode 057: A Report from Moscow and the Role of Denial with Lola Komarova, Ph.D. from 2020-06-28T10:00
"Some patients are quite happy being in their internal world - maybe the government is too, they’re in one world and people can be in the other. The patients live in one world and what is ha...
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Episode 056: Current Uncertainties, Authoritarianism, and the Fathering Function with Claudio Laks Eizirik, MD, PhD from 2020-06-14T10:00
“In Western countries there was a certain reduction in the importance of the father. I think there is a confusion here between the importance of the father or at least the fa...
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Episode 055: Novel and Traditional Approaches to Teaching Psychoanalysis with Lawrence Blum, MD from 2020-06-07T10:00
“One can actually teach development using literature by Dr. Seuss, Beverly Cleary, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown - all of these great authors of children’s literature. What I have done...
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Episode 054: 'There's a Real Person in There': Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis with Warren Poland, MD from 2020-05-31T10:00
“After I had been practicing analysis for 50 years, I asked myself: What was the most important thing I learned in those 50 years? It took me a lot of time to learn the obvious: the patient ...
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Episode 053: A Report from Cape Town and South African Psychoanalysis with Armien Abrahams, MA from 2020-05-24T10:00
“Transformation is a kind of buzz word and it’s not just some economic and sociopolitical transformation. Indeed, it is about transforming the inner self as well and psychoanalysis is well p...
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Episode 052: A Report from New York and on Institute Life During the Pandemic with David Frank, MD from 2020-05-17T10:00
“It's the people of the institute that are with us whenever we are doing our work, silently humming in the background. We are constituted by our colleagues.”
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Episode 051: COVID-19 and Treatment: Moments of Existential Maturation with Linda Emanuel, MD from 2020-05-10T10:00
"I think people are feeling intimate in a way, strangers are feeling intimate, about what is important in life and what is important about what we leave behind. It is a very ...
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Episode 050: A Report from Bilbao with Cristina Escudero from 2020-05-03T10:00
“The importance of inner ideas, fantasies, develop from the unconscious. Reality is important but not conclusive. We perceive and conceptualize reality with our unconscious. ...
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Episode 049: A Report from Tel Aviv with Yael Samuel, PhD from 2020-04-26T10:00
“In this period with the Coronavirus and even during the wars, I don’t think that the relationship between me and the patient is symmetric even if we have to face the same ex...
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Episode 048: Current Pandemic Trauma in Relation to Childhood Trauma with Bernard Chervet, MD from 2020-04-21T10:00
“The feeling of strangeness because of the emptiness and the weight of the silence, the immobilization of everything. This immobilization is one of the signs of the traumatic situation in th...
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Episode 047: A Report from Buenos Aires and the IPA with Virginia Ungar, MD from 2020-04-15T10:00
“When you have analytic training, the analytic attitude is internalized and you need to fit and keep it as well as being aware of when you lose it. As a result of this loss y...
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Episode 046: Psychoanalysis, Leadership and the Pandemic: An Interview with Kerry Sulkowicz, President-elect ApsaA from 2020-04-12T10:00
“There is not just one pandemic right now, there are really two concurrent pandemics....
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Episode 045: A Report from Lisbon with Ana Catarina Duarte Silva, PhD from 2020-04-08T10:00
“Our very specific analytic listening can be used to understand how this external terrible situation is reactivating their internal anxieties and for that we try to confine t...
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Episode 044: A Report from Tehran with Shahrzad Hashemi, MA from 2020-04-05T10:00
“I think that it is even creating more intimacy because they see that you are afraid too and if you are not afraid to say that you are afraid, and you are not too afraid to t...
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Episode 043: A Report from Paris with Marilia Aisenstein from 2020-04-01T10:00
“When the patient is in danger because he is physically ill, or the analyst is in danger because he is physically ill, like with the current situation, the analytic work needs a community of...
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Episode 042: A Report from Warsaw with Wojtek Hanbowski from 2020-03-29T10:00
"I feel terribly isolated not seeing my patients face to face, not seeing them in my consulting room. Also, you know,<...
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Episode 041: Report from Milan with Simonetta Diena, MD from 2020-03-25T10:00
“We don’t know when it is going to end, it’s an endless story, and this is the worry… Will everything come back to normality? In the beginning, we thought it would, but now we think nothing ...
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Episode 040: How Psycho-Oncology Informs an Approach to the Covid-19 Crises with Norman Straker, MD from 2020-03-18T07:00
“The experience that we are all feeling of ‘Are we or are we not subject to or have we been in contact with someone who might have Corona that eventually might result in our ...
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Episode 038: A Psychoanalyst Studies 'Why is it easier to get mad than it is to feel sad?' with Leon Hoffman from 2020-02-23T11:00
Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Leon H...
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Episode 037: Psychotropic Drugs and Analysis — Chances and Limits of Synergy with Prof. Dr. Joachim Küchenhoff from 2020-02-16T11:00
“The guiding principle in using psychopharmacology within psychoanalytic treatment is to see under which circumstances and how far the patient’s autonomy and the patient’s fe...
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Episode 036: An Analyst Writes a Memoir with Susan Mailer from 2020-02-02T11:00
“I have inner permission to write the memoir and to work through the contradictions and the difficulties that I might have, and not have a Greek chorus in my ...
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Episode 035: In-Classroom Psychoanalytic Therapy of Preschoolers in a Native American Community with Kathryn McCormick from 2020-01-26T11:00
"Through the process of mentalization and empathic resonance sharing the child really begins to experience the process of learning, to trust which is absolute...
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Episode 034: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Mental Health Administration, with Humberto Persano, MD. from 2020-01-12T11:00
“Attachment theory is a psychoanalytic theory that extended its field to the neurosciences, to clinical trials, and to behavioral observations such as going to the schools an...
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Episode 033: Corporate Leadership, Malfeasance, and the Psychoanalyst, with Alexander Stein Ph.D. from 2020-01-05T11:00
“My intent behind that was to startle people into thinking about how normal so many of the underpinning psychological elements of fraud and the relationship between deceiver and d...
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Episode 032: Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Interface with Dr. Yehudah Fraenkel from 2019-12-22T11:00
“What makes the human being need to be in relationships and how can one affect these relationships to allow growth? I am encompassing something which is moving from the sciences t...
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Episode 031: Psychoanalysis, Buddhism and Spiritual Bypassing with Dr. Kathleen A. Lyon from 2019-12-15T11:00
“There is nothing faith-based in the least about the Buddhist approach to spirituality. It is also direct and personal, there is no intermediary needed to access, to experience an...
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Episode 030: Psychoanalysis in an Orphanage in Delhi with Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, PhD from 2019-12-08T18:20:54
“We sat down in a meeting and I talked about adolescent sexual development and what I found was a tremendous resistance even in the community to hear about the issues of sexuality...
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Episode 029: Entertaining and Nuanced: Psychoanalytic Ideas on YouTube with Dr. A. Chris Heath from 2019-12-01T11:00
“In Jacques Cousteau’s book there’s this turning point moment when he looked into the water and it was a completely different world and then he looked back up and he saw people go...
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Episode 028: Exploring the Room: Psychoanalysis and Architecture from 2019-11-24T11:00
“We live inside architectural structures, for instance, our own, but at the same time they live inside our minds, in dreams, for example, we can build architectural structures, mo...
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Episode 027: “Psychoanalytic Pluralism, Emotional Finance, and Managing Uncertainty in Financial Markets“ from 2019-11-17T11:00
“The idea was that what we called ‘phantastic objects’ get created sometimes in the mind of investors, which promise much more than ju...
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Episode 026: 'A Tale of Two Selves': A Psychoanalyst Treats Post Eating Disorder Sexual Self-Destructiveness from 2019-11-10T11:00
“The experience and feeling that another person who is close to you is really curious about you and who really wonders who this person is - someone who is interested in asking the...
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Episode 025: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D. from 2019-11-03T11:00
“Interpreting experience in role, is in relation to the mission of the organization, is an extraordinarily useful way of beginning to develop a shared understanding ofListen
Episode 024: The Psychoanalytic Home Visit: "We take the frame with us" from 2019-10-27T10:00
“I think the psychoanalytic training that we’ve had really helped us in this work to know how to slow down, to know how to listen, to know how to wait and process...
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Episode 023: A Psychoanalyst Encounters the Dying – Discovering ‘Existential Maturity’ from 2019-10-20T10:00
“I feel that I bring analytic love and receive love from my clients in abundance and that is very much a part of the necessary frame for the work that we do, and by frame I do mea...
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Episode 022: A Psychoanalyst Engages the Minds of Murderers with Dr. Carine Minne from 2019-10-13T10:00
“Psychoanalysis has so much to offer a particular patient population that really doesn't have sufficient access to our psychoanalytic work and applications. It is...
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Episode 021: A Psychoanalyst Studies 'Brainwashing' Fears - On and Off the Couch from 2019-10-06T10:00
“This idea of freeing the patient up to think as they please; to speak without selecting, without direction is the heart of the method that he devised. There is a...
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Episode 020: The Psychoanalyst and the Leader Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries from 2019-09-29T10:00
“What we bring is really a deeper understanding of out of awareness behavior. Why don’t people do what is so logical, so rational? Why do they sabotage themselves? Why are executi...
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Episode 019: A Psychoanalyst Studies the Good Life - The Harvard Study of Adult Development from 2019-09-22T10:00
“We learned that the secure attachment was predicted by the warmth of your childhood - that people who had warmer relationships with parents were more likely to have warmer and mo...
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Episode 018: Between Creativity and Destructiveness: The organizational consultant as a container of the collective unconscious in the work group with Dr. Anna Krantz from 2019-09-15T10:00
“In this kind of unconscious process particularly I think what happens is that the groups use unconscious defense mechanisms, such as d...
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Episode 017: New Books in Psychoanalysis: Analysts Reach into the Community from 2019-09-08T10:00
“Psychoanalytic ideas deserve to have continuous days in the sun.”
Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Tracy Morgan a...
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Episode 016: Children Overwhelmed by Trauma: A Psychoanalyst Creates a Public Health-Police Initiative with Dr. Steven Marans from 2019-09-03T07:00
“The background for this is actually seeing psychoanalytic principles as a basic science in thinking about how do we help people. For me, this combination of curi...
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Episode 015: Psychoanalysis in the Emory Business School-From Couch to Coach with Dr. Lisa Rosof from 2019-08-18T10:00
“Especially now in business, what’s valued in leadership are the soft skills, not the dictatorial, top-down command and control. This is a time when analysts can be extremely valu...
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Episode 014: Psychoanalysis in a Multicultural Daycare Center in Yafo, Tel Aviv, with Hamutal Raz Shiloach from 2019-08-11T10:00
“I thought I should be sensitive, accessible and alive, in order to enable the baby to wake up and to start moving something inside that will bring up her potentials and start to ...
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Episode 013: The Capacity to Self-Reflect: Psychodynamic Intervention in a School in Tehran with Shahrzad Hashemi and Rosa Famini from 2019-08-04T10:00
“We begin introducing children to emotions, how they felt, their functions and how to deal with their intra and interpersonal feelings, like anger, shame, fear and envy and we did...
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Episode 012: Sex Trafficking, The UN, A Psychoanalyst with Vivian B Pender from 2019-07-28T10:00
“I listen with my psychoanalytic ear, for the unconscious, for defense mechanisms, affect, ego strengths and relationship between us, but at the UN I specifically...
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Episodio 011: Community Psychoanalysis in the Outskirts of Lima (Psicoanálisis Comunitario en las afueras de Lima) from 2019-07-21T10:00
Pero nosotros mantenemos el enfoque psicoanalítico para comenzar desde nuestra manera de escuchar, la manera de escuchar aquello que se nos transmite con la convicción de que los ...
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Episode 010: Refugees, Germany and Psychoanalysis with Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber from 2019-07-14T10:00
“I have never needed the psychoanalytic professionalism as much as in these very unconventional situations. It took the woman out of the shock of her freezing psychic state. In th...
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Episode 009: "Pleasures of Mind": Literature and Psychoanalysis: with Dr. Paul Schwaber from 2019-07-07T10:00
“There were so many opportunities to ponder what’s going on with different characters, what’s going on with tensions between generations, what’s going on with family relations. It...
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Episode 008: A Psychoanalyst Encounters Patients with Addictions from 2019-06-30T10:00
“Both analyst and patient will have to share a bitter taste of abandonment, of boredom, of antagonism and they have to remain together, because together they wil...
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Episode 007: Psychonephrology: A Psychodynamic Perspective in the Dialysis Unit from 2019-06-23T15:02:14
“Physical illness begins a very serious journey where there is a disconnect between one’s sense of embeddedness in one’s own body, to all of a sudden being contained within a pers...
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Episode 006: On Becoming Parents: From Biology to Psychoanalysis from 2019-06-16T07:00
“The early parental caregiving is inscribed in the body of the baby and contributes to the structure of his mind. All the primary inscriptions program and shape, ...
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Episode 005: "Balint, Psychoanalysis and Primary Care Medicine" with Dr. Randall Paulsen from 2019-06-09T07:00
“Most primary care family physicians you talk to will say that about half of their patient visits, in any given week, are emotional, situational, and relational problems.” Listen
Episode 004: Skin in Psychoanalysis with Dr. Jorge Ulnik from 2019-06-02T07:00
“The skin disorder got worse every springtime coinciding with the time of the death of his father.”
Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Jorge U...
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Episode 003: The Psychoanalytic Consultant from 2019-05-10T16:02:07
Steven S. Rolfe welcomes Dr. David Sachs to this episode. Dr. David Sachs is one of our pioneers, he has worked off the couch from a relatively early time in his career and we will hear today about...
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Episode 002: Psycho-Dialysis: Psychoanalytic Therapy in the Public Mental Health Clinic from 2019-05-10T15:23:24
Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Ilan Amir, who is a psychiatrist and a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society and is a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University Psychot...
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Episode 001: Psychoanalysis and the Community from 2019-05-09T23:54:29
Harvey Schwartz welcomes, as the first guest of IPA Off The Couch, Virginia Ungar, current President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She specializes in child and adolescent analysi...
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