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Episode 82: A Psychoanalytic COVID Workbook for Children in South Africa with Jennifer Davids, M.Sc

“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 to face the aspects of COVID-19. So it’s not only the illness and having people in the family who are…

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Episode 81: Psychoanalytic Curiosity and Boundaries with Philip Stokoe (London)

“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’m not going to hide you in this secondary container, but I am going to help you to think…

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Episode 80: A Psychoanalyst and Magic Moments: Working with Caregivers of Traumatized Children with Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge, Mass.)

“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 a relationship. We need to use that kind of knowledge to find alternative ways, other than the intensive treatment we offer in our offices,…

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Episode 79: Shame, Guilt, and Ruminations with Donald Carveth, Ph.D.

“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 recognize the narcissism in the paranoid-schizoid position, because it is in that position you are feeling hunted by predators… When we’re in the depressive/reparative position other people are…

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Episode 78: The Freuds in Vienna, 1933-38 with Ilana Offenberger, Ph.D.

“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 time to raise a little more money – each one of these individual Jews of Vienna who I came into contact with, brought me closer…

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