“A number of art schools in the early 60s said: “Clearly, it is the relationship of the painter to the medium that is the essence of painting – the painter must be emotionally present, and this is what we should instill in our students.” So they started to take away traditional training in art schools…

“The Holocaust seems to me to be the paradigmatic case of the acting out of unconscious fears, fantasies and projections onto another group that has ever occurred. It is the place therefore for psychoanalytic concepts in understanding anti-Semitism and racism more generally. Particularly in this context and thinking about Nazism and Nazi perpetrators is crucial,…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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…