“ 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,…

“ 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,…

“ 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…

“It’s the people of the institute that are with us whenever we are doing our work, silently humming in the background. We are constituted by our colleagues.” David Frank, MD New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. David Frank, who is a Training and Supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY)…

“ I think people are feeling intimate in a way, strangers are feeling intimate, about what is important in life and what is important about what we leave behind. It is a very precious thing to be feeling and something we should hold on to. ” Linda Emanuel, MD Chicago / Boston Episode Description: Harvey…

“ The importance of inner ideas, fantasies, develop from the unconscious. Reality is important but not conclusive. We perceive and conceptualize reality with our unconscious. So let’s give the unconscious more than ever during this crisis its place, and keep the intention to listen to the unconscious with our patients ” Cristina Escudero Bilboa Episode…

“ In this period with the Coronavirus and even during the wars, I don’t think that the relationship between me and the patient is symmetric even if we have to face the same external dangers. The relationship continues to be asymmetric – I manage the treatment, I decide the setting, I continue to be the…

“ The feeling of strangeness because of the emptiness and the weight of the silence, the immobilization of everything. This immobilization is one of the signs of the traumatic situation in the psychic life – we can think of the dream of the Wolf Man.” Bernard Chervet, MD Paris Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr….