“ 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….

“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…