Harvey Schwartz

Episode 62: History and Psychoanalysis: Reflections with Peter Loewenberg, PhD

“ Historians have had to learn to explore their own subjectivity in dealing with the past. They can only see what they are prepared to see and they have frequently blocked out, scotomized, what they really don’t want to see. This is part of the current struggle in the history profession.” Peter Loewenberg, PhD Los…

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Episode 61: A Report from Calcutta and the Changing Role of Women in Psychoanalysis with Jhuma Basak, PhD

“ The schools of thought differed very strongly. The Calcutta school primarily belonged to the classical Freudian school of thought whereas Bombay worked from a very structured Tavistock model which they have been following for a very long time. In Dehli we find the Ericksonian model. These cites developed these models as a result of…

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Episode 60: Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Academia with Robert Michels, M.D.

“ I don’t think you derive technical rules or interpretive strategies from theory. I think that what we do instead is to try to be open-minded, available and resonant with what’s happening in the world of the patient and try to maintain a rich world of associational potentials in the back of our mind. ”…

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Episode 59: Narcissism and Leadership, Revisited with Michael Maccoby Ph.D.

“ I went back looking at one of the qualities of leadership we need particularly now during a pandemic, I went back to Thucydides and Athens and I found Pericles’ funeral narration made during the destructive pandemic that hit Athens. ” Michael Maccoby Ph.D Washington, DC Episode Description: Dr. Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Michael Maccoby….

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Episode 58: ‘To Make a Meaningful Life’: Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis with Melvin Bornstein, MD

“ Once we put things together and express them to somebody, something happens. We become more alive – because we are expressing what we are expressing in terms of what is real and what is real is not static. What is real is continuously moving and what is real is the experience of everything moving…

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Episode 57: A Report from Moscow and the Role of Denial with Lola Komarova, Ph.D

“ Some patients are quite happy being in their internal world – maybe the government is too, they’re in one world and people can be in the other. The patients live in one world and what is happening  outside doesn’t bother them very much. It is about the avoidance of contact, the avoidance of the…

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Episode 56: Current Uncertainties, Authoritarianism, and the Fathering Function with Claudio Laks Eizirik, MD, PhD

“ In Western countries there was a certain reduction in the importance of the father. I think there is a confusion here between the importance of the father or at least the father function with the authoritarian father, the patriarchal father, that figure that arouses so much suspicion and reactions against.” Claudio Laks Eizirik, MD,…

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Episode 55: Novel and Traditional Approaches to Teaching Psychoanalysis with Lawrence Blum, MD

“ One can actually teach development using literature by Dr. Seuss, Beverly Cleary, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown – all of these great authors of children’s literature. What I have done is created a course where these are paired with case reports from the child psychoanalytic literature, so one hears directly the experience, the words,…

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Episode 54: ‘There’s a Real Person in There’: Reflections on a Life in Psychoanalysis with Warren Poland, MD

“ After I had been practicing analysis for 50 years, I asked myself: What was the most important thing I learned in those 50 years? It took me a lot of time to learn the obvious: the patient is somebody else.” Warren Poland, MD Washington D.C. Episode Description: Dr. Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Warren Poland,…

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Episode 53: A Report from Cape Town and South African Psychoanalysis with Armien Abrahams, MA

“ Transformation is a kind of buzz word and it’s not just some economic and sociopolitical transformation. Indeed, it is about transforming the inner self as well and psychoanalysis is well placed to face these challenges. ” Armien Abrahams, MA Cape Town Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Armien Abrahams who is a Training Analyst at…

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