“ The guiding principle in using psychopharmacology in psychoanalytic treatment is to see under which circumstances and how far the patient’s autonomy and the patient’s feeling of agency is well preserved. Or you might speak of the degrees of freedom enabled or being hindered by the use of pharmacology. ” Prof. Dr. Joachim Küchenhoff Basel…

“ 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 head telling me: You can’t do this.” Susan Mailer Santiago Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Susan Mailer to today’s episode. Susan is an American born…

“ Through the process of mentalization and empathic resonance sharing, the child really begins to experience the process of learning, to trust which is absolutely foundational, and begins to count on being valued, begins to count on being listened to, held in mind, reflected back to and ultimately really cared about and loved. ” Kathryn…

“ 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 and seeing teachers and children together. We can observe children’s’ behavior and use psychoanalytic theory to understand them allowing us to detect problems even in infancy. ” Humberto…

“ 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 deceived is, and to uncover people’s misunderstanding of people who commit fraud  as necessarily some radical other. ” Alexander Stein, Ph.D. New York Episode Description: Steven…

“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…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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,…

“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…