“ It changed my analysis, I went from ‘I’m not actually a patient, I’m just a lump here’ to being a patient. I didn’t understand the work until after that conference at the Tavistock. It’s like I could take advantage of the opportunity I was having to move the analysis along… My analyst wrote a paper with…

“ Nuestra propuesta de trabajo a la institución fue la de implementar la puesta en marcha de un espacio de juego y producción individual para los niños y jóvenes llamado Tiempo Especial. Todas las observaciones recogidas por el educador en ese encuadre luego son discutidas en la modalidad de grupo de Discusión de Trabajo, es…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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. ”…

“ 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….

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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,…

“ 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,…