“ I don’t think you derive technical rules or interpretive strategies from theory. I think that what we do instead is to try to be open-minded, available and resonant with what’s happening in the world of the patient and try to maintain a rich world of associational potentials in the back of our mind. ”…

“ I went back looking at one of the qualities of leadership we need particularly now during a pandemic, I went back to Thucydides and Athens and I found Pericles’ funeral narration made during the destructive pandemic that hit Athens. ” Michael Maccoby Ph.D Washington, DC Episode Description: Dr. Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Michael Maccoby….

“ Once we put things together and express them to somebody, something happens. We become more alive – because we are expressing what we are expressing in terms of what is real and what is real is not static. What is real is continuously moving and what is real is the experience of everything moving…

“ Some patients are quite happy being in their internal world – maybe the government is too, they’re in one world and people can be in the other. The patients live in one world and what is happening  outside doesn’t bother them very much. It is about the avoidance of contact, the avoidance of the…

“ In Western countries there was a certain reduction in the importance of the father. I think there is a confusion here between the importance of the father or at least the father function with the authoritarian father, the patriarchal father, that figure that arouses so much suspicion and reactions against.” Claudio Laks Eizirik, MD,…

“ One can actually teach development using literature by Dr. Seuss, Beverly Cleary, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Wise Brown – all of these great authors of children’s literature. What I have done is created a course where these are paired with case reports from the child psychoanalytic literature, so one hears directly the experience, the words,…

“ 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…