“ 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….

“When you have analytic training, the analytic attitude is internalized and you need to fit and keep it as well as being aware of when you lose it. As a result of this loss you will be receiving a sign from the countertransference. This is the motivation and passion for psychoanalysis.” Virginia Ungar, MD Buenos…

“There is not just one pandemic right now, there are really two concurrent pandemics. The first one is the pandemic of the virus, but the second one that is closely tied to the first is a pandemic of anxiety. I want to be really clear that I am not just using that as a figure…

“ Our very specific analytic listening can be used to understand how this external terrible situation is reactivating their internal anxieties and for that we try to confine the suffering to the here and now of the phone call.” Ana Catarina Duarte Silva, PhD Lisbon Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Ana Catarina Duarte Silva…

“ I think that it is even creating more intimacy because they see that you are afraid too and if you are not afraid to say that you are afraid, and you are not too afraid to talk about it, and that is a good opportunity to talk about many fears. ” Shahrzad Hashemi, MA…

“When the patient is in danger because he is physically ill, or the analyst is in danger because he is physically ill, like with the current situation, the analytic work needs a community of denial.” Marilia Aisenstein Paris Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Marilia Aisenstein to this episode. Marilia Aisenstein is a training analyst at…

“I feel terribly isolated not seeing my patients face to face, not seeing them in my consulting room. Also, you know, the work with students in all these internet platforms is possible but it is pretty difficult.” Wojtek Hanbowski Warsaw Episode Description: In times when we are all facing a crisis of unprecedented proportion, we are…