“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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.”…

“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…

“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 a terrible pity because so many of them really benefit from it directly and there is so much benefit for society in general.” Carine Minne MD London Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz…

“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 an idea of freedom but it is differentiated from compulsion from the start“ Daniel Pick, PhD London Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Daniel Pick who…

“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 executives self-destructive? Why do they suffer from hubris? Why do most executive teams not work very well? What is going on in the group?“ Manfred…

“ 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 more securely attached relationships with their spouses in their eighties. Now that is no surprise to us psychoanalysts, but to demonstrate that empirically over…

“ In this kind of unconscious process particularly I think what happens is that the groups use unconscious defense mechanisms, such as denial, splitting, idealization or repression, and we need to help the manager and the group tolerate the anxiety and face the facts.” Anna Krantz, PhD Stockholm Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Anna…