Episode Archives

Episode 70: Psychoanalysis in Times of Crisis: A Psychoanalyst-Historian’s Perspective with Eran Rolnik M.D. PhD

“ One of Freud’s letters to Ferenczi is a letter dated October 1918, just before the truce that ended World War I. And in this letter, Freud was responding to Ferenczi’s lament over the demise and disintegration of the monarchy, and his advice to Ferenczi went like this: “Withdraw your libido from your fatherland in…

Read More

Episode 69: A Life in Academia, Anthropology, and Psychoanalysis with Robert Paul, PhD

“ There are things that arise in later life that have to do with the conflict of cultures that arises when you’re dealing with someone who either is an immigrant or is the child of immigrants. This is also the case with someone who comes from a family in the U.S. which is deeply conservative…

Read More

Episode 68: The Fate of Magic in Psychoanalysis with Joel Whitebook, PhD

“ The goal is to find magic which is not psychotic, to find a form of magic which isn’t simply the denial of reality. The nonpsychotic form of magic is play. The analyst and the patient have to learn to be able to play together in that transitional realm. ” Joel Whitebook, PhD New York…

Read More

Episode 67: Creativity in the Analyst and Analysand in Times of COVID with Ilany Kogan

“ I think that the analyst has to be in touch with his anxiety in order to be able to understand the patient’s anxiety. But he has to not be drowned in such anxiety in order to be able to be the helpful object. ” Ilany Kogan, MA Rehovot Episode Description: Dr. Harvey Schwartz welcomes Ilany…

Read More

Episode 66: Otherness, Anti-Semitism and Psychoanalysis with Dr. Werner Bohleber

“ It’s a big job to accept the otherness of the other. This places demands on the psychological  processing of each individual to tolerate the otherness of the other. Therefore we often see regressive solutions when the other person’s otherness cannot be endured. Then ideal narcissistic states of purity and homogeneity are longed for. ”…

Read More

Episode 65: Psychoanalysis at the Interface of the Community and the Police with Steven Marans, Ph.D

“I hope that out of these tragedies there is an opportunity not only to express the intensity of our reactions but to get back down to the detailed business of understanding and unpacking the nature and contributions to the problems. We also can revisit and learn new solutions and achieve greater mastery. This is as…

Read More

Episode 64: From Martin Luther King to Wall Street: Transitions In the Life of a Psychoanalyst: An Interview with Kathleen Pogue White Ph.D.

“ It changed my analysis, I went from ‘I’m not actually a patient, I’m just a lump here’ to being a patient. I didn’t understand the work until after that conference at the Tavistock. It’s like I could take advantage of the opportunity I was having to move the analysis along… My analyst wrote a paper with…

Read More

Episode 63: Tiempo Especial. Un tiempo de Juego Para los Niños y Jóvenes de las Calles con Mónica Cardenal, Ph.D.

“ Nuestra propuesta de trabajo a la institución fue la de implementar la puesta en marcha de un espacio de juego y producción individual para los niños y jóvenes llamado Tiempo Especial. Todas las observaciones recogidas por el educador en ese encuadre luego son discutidas en la modalidad de grupo de Discusión de Trabajo, es…

Read More

Episode 62: History and Psychoanalysis: Reflections with Peter Loewenberg, PhD

“ Historians have had to learn to explore their own subjectivity in dealing with the past. They can only see what they are prepared to see and they have frequently blocked out, scotomized, what they really don’t want to see. This is part of the current struggle in the history profession.” Peter Loewenberg, PhD Los…

Read More

Episode 61: A Report from Calcutta and the Changing Role of Women in Psychoanalysis with Jhuma Basak, PhD

“ The schools of thought differed very strongly. The Calcutta school primarily belonged to the classical Freudian school of thought whereas Bombay worked from a very structured Tavistock model which they have been following for a very long time. In Dehli we find the Ericksonian model. These cites developed these models as a result of…

Read More