“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…

“ Psychoanalytic ideas deserve to have continuous days in the sun.” Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP and Tracy D. Morgan, LCSW-R, M.Phil. New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Tracy Morgan and Anna Fishzon. Tracy Morgan is a psychoanalyst  in private practice in NYC and works with individuals, couples and groups. She is the founder, editor…

“The background for this is actually seeing psychoanalytic principles as a basic science in  thinking about how do we help people… For me, this combination of curiosity, justice, equality and alleviating suffering came together in a very powerful way around this work.” Steven Marans PhD New Haven Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Steven Marans,…

“Especially now in business, what’s  valued in leadership are the soft skills, not the dictatorial, top down command and control. This is a time when analysts can be extremely valuable in the business world.” Lisa Rosof MD, JD Atlanta Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Lisa Rosof from the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta….

“I thought I should be sensitive, accessible and alive, in order to enable the baby to wake up and to start moving something inside that will bring up her potentials and start to BE.” Hamutal Raz Shiloach, MA Tel Aviv Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Hamutal Raz Shiloach clinical psychologist and a training and supervising…

“We begin introducing children to emotions, how they felt, their functions and how to deal with their intra and interpersonal feelings like anger, shame, fear and envy and we did this through storytelling, paintings and plays.” Rosa Famini, MA & Shahrzad Hashemi, MA Tehran Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Shahrzad Hashemi and Rosa Famini. Shahrzad…

“ I listen with my psychoanalytic ear, for the unconscious, for defense mechanisms, affect, ego strengths and relationship between us, but at the UN I specifically want to focus on my work using a psychoanalytic lens” Vivian B. Pender, MD New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Vivian B. Pender, who is a Clinical…