Harvey Schwartz

Episode 32: Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Interface with Dr. Yehudah Fraenkel

“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 to relationships.” Yehudah Fraenkel, MD Jerusalem Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Yehudah Fraenkel, who is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst and a member of the…

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Episode 31: Psychoanalysis, Buddhism and Spiritual Bypassing with Dr. Kathleen A. Lyon

“ There is nothing faith-based in the least about the Buddhist approach to spirituality, and it is also direct and personal, there is no intermediary needed to access, to experience and to investigate the spiritual path in Buddhism.” Kathleen A. Lyon, MD New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Kathleen A. Lyon, who is…

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Episode 30: Psychoanalysis in an Orphanage in Delhi with Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, PhD

“ 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. ” Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, PhD Philadelphia Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Monisha Nayar-Akhtar, PhD, who did her adult and child psychoanalytic training…

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Episode 29: Entertaining and Nuanced: Psychoanalytic Ideas on YouTube with Dr. A. Chris Heath

“ 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 going around, with no idea what was under the surface…There are people who can dive into topics that are kind of unbearable,…

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Episode 28: Exploring the Room: Psychoanalysis and Architecture

“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, modify them or destroy them.” Cosimo Schinaia, MD Genoa Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr Cosimo Schinaia. Dr. Schinaia is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at the…

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Episode 27: ‘Psychoanalytic Pluralism, Emotional Finance, and Managing Uncertainty in Financial Markets’

“ The idea was that what we called  ‘phantastic objects’ get created sometimes in the mind of investors, which promise much more than just money; it is of course money, but they are ‘phantastic objects’ in the sense that Melanie Klein or someone like that might mean them, things that if you possess are like…

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Episode 26: ‘A Tale of Two Selves’: A Psychoanalyst Treats Post Eating Disorder Sexual Self-Destructiveness

“ 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 question: ‘Who are you?’ I think it is through that type of curiosity and the relationship which stems from that, that…

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Episode 25: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D.

“ Interpreting experience in role, in relation to the mission of the organization, is an extraordinarily useful way of beginning to develop a shared understanding of organizational dynamics. ” Edward Shapiro, MD Stockbridge Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Edward Shapiro, who is a training and supervising analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. He is…

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Episode 24: The Psychoanalytic Home Visit: “We take the frame with us”

“ I think the psychoanalytic training that we’ve had reallyhelped us in this work to know how to slow down, to knowhow to listen, to know how to wait and process materialunder conditions that can feel and really are very urgent –cases when there is a baby in great danger or a mother ingreat danger.”…

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Episode 23: A Psychoanalyst Encounters the Dying – Discovering ‘Existential Maturity’

“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 mean analytic frame as well as a frame of relatedness.” Linda Emmanuel MD Chicago/Boston Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz…

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