“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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. ”…

“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…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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…

“ 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….