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Episode 25: Citizenship and the Psychoanalyst with Edward R. Shapiro M.D.

“ Interpreting experience in role, in relation to the mission of the organization, is an extraordinarily useful way of beginning to develop a shared understanding of organizational dynamics. ” Edward Shapiro, MD Stockbridge Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Edward Shapiro, who is a training and supervising analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. He is…

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Episode 24: The Psychoanalytic Home Visit: “We take the frame with us”

“ I think the psychoanalytic training that we’ve had reallyhelped us in this work to know how to slow down, to knowhow to listen, to know how to wait and process materialunder conditions that can feel and really are very urgent –cases when there is a baby in great danger or a mother ingreat danger.”…

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Episode 23: A Psychoanalyst Encounters the Dying – Discovering ‘Existential Maturity’

“I feel that I bring analytic love and receive love from my clients in abundance and that is very much a part of the necessary frame for the work that we do, and by frame I do mean analytic frame as well as a frame of relatedness.” Linda Emmanuel MD Chicago/Boston Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz…

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Episode 22: A Psychoanalyst Engages the Minds of Murderers with Dr. Carine Minne

“Psychoanalysis has so much to offer a particular patient population that really doesn’t have sufficient access to our psychoanalytic work and applications. It is a terrible pity because so many of them really benefit from it directly and there is so much benefit for society in general.” Carine Minne MD London Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz…

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Episode 21: A Psychoanalyst Studies ‘Brainwashing’ Fears

“This idea of freeing the patient up to think as they please; to speak without selecting, without direction is the heart of the method that he devised. There is an idea of freedom but it is differentiated from compulsion from the start“ Daniel Pick, PhD London Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Daniel Pick who…

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Episode 20: The Psychoanalyst and the Leader

“What we bring is really a deeper understanding of out of awareness behavior. Why don’t people do what is so logical, so rational? Why do they sabotage themselves? Why are executives self-destructive? Why do they suffer from hubris? Why do most executive teams not work very well? What is going on in the group?“ Manfred…

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Episode 19: A Psychoanalyst Studies the Good Life – The Harvard Study of Adult Development

“ We learned that the secure attachment was predicted by the warmth of your childhood – that people who had warmer relationships with parents were more likely to have warmer and more securely attached relationships with their spouses in their eighties. Now that is no surprise to us psychoanalysts, but to demonstrate that empirically over…

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Episode 18: Between Creativity and Destructiveness: The organizational consultant as a container of the collective unconscious in the work group with Dr. Anna Krantz

“ In this kind of unconscious process particularly I think what happens is that the groups use unconscious defense mechanisms, such as denial, splitting, idealization or repression, and we need to help the manager and the group tolerate the anxiety and face the facts.” Anna Krantz, PhD Stockholm Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Anna…

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Episode 17: New Books in Psychoanalysis: Analysts Reach into the Community through Podcasting

“ Psychoanalytic ideas deserve to have continuous days in the sun.” Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP and Tracy D. Morgan, LCSW-R, M.Phil. New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Tracy Morgan and Anna Fishzon. Tracy Morgan is a psychoanalyst  in private practice in NYC and works with individuals, couples and groups. She is the founder, editor…

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Episode 16: Children Overwhelmed by Trauma: A Psychoanalyst Creates a Public Health- Police Initiative with Dr. Steven Marans

“The background for this is actually seeing psychoanalytic principles as a basic science in  thinking about how do we help people… For me, this combination of curiosity, justice, equality and alleviating suffering came together in a very powerful way around this work.” Steven Marans PhD New Haven Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Steven Marans,…

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