Episode Archives

Episode 40: How Psycho-Oncology Informs an Approach to the Covid-19 Crises with Norman Straker, MD

“The experience that we are all feeling of ‘Are we or are we not subject to or have we been in contact with someone who might have Corona that eventually might result in our developing an infection?´ is very much the same as a cancer patient who has gone for investigation of some kind of…

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Episode 39: IQ Improvement Resulting from Psychoanalytically Informed Reflective Network Therapy with Dr. Gilbert Kliman

“Reflective network therapy is literally an application of child analysis in the real-life setting of a preschool.” Gilbert Kliman MD. San Francisco Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Gilbert Kliman a child and adult psychoanalyst who has focused his career on providing measurable outcomes from his clinical work, which he discusses in this episode. Dr….

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Episode 38: A Psychoanalyst Studies ‘Why is it easier to get mad than it is to feel sad?’ with Leon Hoffman

“The work with children in pointing out avoidance of painful situations goes back to the work of Berta Bornstein who was one of Anna Freud students. ” Leon Hoffman MD. New York City Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Leon Hoffman, who is a Training Analyst, and a child, adolescent and adult Psychoanalyst at the…

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Episode 37: Psychotropic Drugs and Analysis — Chances and Limits of Synergy with Joachim Küchenhoff

“ The guiding principle in using psychopharmacology in psychoanalytic treatment is to see under which circumstances and how far the patient’s autonomy and the patient’s feeling of agency is well preserved. Or you might speak of the degrees of freedom enabled or being hindered by the use of pharmacology. ” Prof. Dr. Joachim Küchenhoff Basel…

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Episode 36: An Analyst Writes a Memoir with Susan Mailer

“ I have inner permission to write the memoir and to work through the contradictions and the difficulties that I might have, and not have a Greek chorus in my head telling me: You can’t do this.” Susan Mailer Santiago Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Susan Mailer to today’s episode. Susan is an American born…

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Episode 35: In-Classroom Psychoanalytic Therapy of Preschoolers in a Native American Community with Kathryn McCormick

“ Through the process of mentalization and empathic resonance sharing, the child really begins to experience the process of learning, to trust which is absolutely foundational, and begins to count on being valued, begins to count on being listened to, held in mind, reflected back to and ultimately really cared about and loved. ” Kathryn…

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Episode 34: Psychoanalytic Perspectives in Mental Health Administration, with Humberto Persano, MD.

“ Attachment theory is a psychoanalytic theory that extended its field to the neurosciences, to clinical trials, and to behavioral observations such as going to the schools and seeing teachers and children together. We can observe children’s’ behavior and use psychoanalytic theory to understand them allowing us to detect problems even in infancy. ” Humberto…

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Episode 33: Corporate Leadership, Malfeasance, and the Psychoanalyst, with Alexander Stein Ph.D.

“ My intent behind that was to startle people into thinking about how normal so many of the underpinning psychological elements of fraud and the relationship between deceiver and deceived is, and to uncover people’s misunderstanding of people who commit fraud  as necessarily some radical other. ” Alexander Stein, Ph.D. New York Episode Description: Steven…

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Episode 32: Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Interface with Dr. Yehudah Fraenkel

“What makes the human being need to be in relationships and how can one affect these relationships to allow growth? I am encompassing something which is moving from the sciences to relationships.” Yehudah Fraenkel, MD Jerusalem Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Yehudah Fraenkel, who is a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst and a member of the…

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Episode 31: Psychoanalysis, Buddhism and Spiritual Bypassing with Dr. Kathleen A. Lyon

“ There is nothing faith-based in the least about the Buddhist approach to spirituality, and it is also direct and personal, there is no intermediary needed to access, to experience and to investigate the spiritual path in Buddhism.” Kathleen A. Lyon, MD New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Kathleen A. Lyon, who is…

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