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Episode 168:  Psychoanalysis and the Working Through of a Vineyard’s Slave History with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town)

“The historian [of the vineyard] gave us regular feedback on what she was finding, and she also brought in oral historians to take our own life histories. There’s also a psychoanalytical point to be made here – you can take refuge in this scholarly exercise, going into archives and finding out things that happened hundreds…

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Episode 167:  Chaos and Transformation in Psychoanalysis: ‘the Bet on Freedom’ with Gabriela Goldstein, Ph.D. (Buenos Aires)

“I think it is very interesting to open a debate and talk about this impact of the culture, this epoch, in the subjectivity and never losing the internal work within psychoanalysis, within our consulting room. So when I  quote the Lacanian way of saying the ‘declination of the father’s name’, I am talking about these…

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Episode 166:  A Sociologist/Psychoanalyst Writes a Novel/Memoir with Roberta Satow, PhD (Washington, CT)

“I was very interested in the unspoken thoughts and feelings of the patient because I think one of the things about free association is that in the beginning most of what’s going on with the patient is unsaid.  As the analysis evolves more and more of the unspoken becomes spoken and more of it becomes…

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Episode 165:  An Analyst’s Journey with Cancer with Jhuma Basak, PhD (Calcutta)

“There was a lot of dilemma, and I wasn’t able to definitely deal with the sudden knowledge of my cancer and to be able to impart that information in a more containing and structured manner so that my patients can be held even in that situation. But the consciousness was there about how to go…

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Episode 164:  Transformation of Dreams in Analysis: the Research Findings with Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Prof. Dr. Phil. (Frankfurt)

“In my own two analyses, I had observed such transformations for me in a very impressive way. I started my own analysis after the traumatic death of my sister when I was 22 years old. At that time, I had a breakdown, and I suffered from severe depressive and psychosomatic symptoms and sleep disorders but…

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Episode 163:  Secrets Kept and Secrets Told: the Analyst’s Responsibility with Barbara Stimmel, PhD (New York)

“I don’t know what to do about this because we do have to use clinical material. It’s the best tried and true method in which to inculcate analytic thinking in our students and supervises. On the other hand, we are so indebted to our patients and their trust in us and our responsibilities as ethical…

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Episode 162:  The Adventure of Immersive Analytic Training with Dr. Eike Hinze  (Berlin)

“During the whole course of your [psychoanalytic] training, you are laying on the couch and have your personal analysis and beforehand you don’t know where it will lead you. You start to discover corners of your unconscious psyche which you don’t want, which you are not so eager to explore. This accompanies you during the…

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Episode 161: Adjunctive Psychedelic Medicines during Dynamic Psychotherapy with Charis Cladouhos, MD (Boston)

“I would love for the psychoanalytic world to re-embrace some of these adjunctive treatments that get to non-ordinary states of consciousness in order to enhance psychoanalytic treatment, and that includes psychedelics. The other thing I’d like to see is, I think psychoanalysts are extremely well suited to use psychedelic-assisted therapy in a non-harmful way. I…

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Episode 160: The Dying Patient in Treatment with Mark Moore, PhD (Philadelphia) and Peggy Warren, MD (Boston)

“What is it like to be a clinician with a patient who either comes because they’re going to be dying or it happens in the treatment –  what is it like for the clinician? It’s lonely in a way because there is a lot of parallel with what the patient is going through. To me,…

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Episode 159: Bystanding as Perversion: “We need to forget about what we actually did not even see here.” with Jan Borowicz, PhD (Warsaw)

“From such accounts [of Polish atrocities] we can see how incredibly emotional and how incredibly pleasurable it could be on the social level, not only for the people involved, but for the whole group, and we can really see how violence on others becomes the core of social identity, of the national identity. We tend…

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