“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 will ever be the same.” Simonetta Diena, MD Milan Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes you to the 41st episode…

“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 developing an infection?´ is very much the same as a cancer patient who has gone for investigation of some kind of…

“Reflective network therapy is literally an application of child analysis in the real-life setting of a preschool.” Gilbert Kliman MD. San Francisco Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Gilbert Kliman a child and adult psychoanalyst who has focused his career on providing measurable outcomes from his clinical work, which he discusses in this episode. Dr….

“The work with children in pointing out avoidance of painful situations goes back to the work of Berta Bornstein who was one of Anna Freud students. ” Leon Hoffman MD. New York City Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Leon Hoffman, who is a Training Analyst, and a child, adolescent and adult Psychoanalyst at the…

“ 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…