“There is not just one pandemic right now, there are really two concurrent pandemics. The first one is the pandemic of the virus, but the second one that is closely tied to the first is a pandemic of anxiety. I want to be really clear that I am not just using that as a figure…

“ Our very specific analytic listening can be used to understand how this external terrible situation is reactivating their internal anxieties and for that we try to confine the suffering to the here and now of the phone call.” Ana Catarina Duarte Silva, PhD Lisbon Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Ana Catarina Duarte Silva…

“ I think that it is even creating more intimacy because they see that you are afraid too and if you are not afraid to say that you are afraid, and you are not too afraid to talk about it, and that is a good opportunity to talk about many fears. ” Shahrzad Hashemi, MA…

“When the patient is in danger because he is physically ill, or the analyst is in danger because he is physically ill, like with the current situation, the analytic work needs a community of denial.” Marilia Aisenstein Paris Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Marilia Aisenstein to this episode. Marilia Aisenstein is a training analyst at…

“I feel terribly isolated not seeing my patients face to face, not seeing them in my consulting room. Also, you know, the work with students in all these internet platforms is possible but it is pretty difficult.” Wojtek Hanbowski Warsaw Episode Description: In times when we are all facing a crisis of unprecedented proportion, we are…

“We don’t know when it is going to end, it’s an endless story, and this is the worry… Will everything come back to normality? In the beginning, we thought it would, but now we think nothing will ever be the same.” Simonetta Diena, MD Milan Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes you to the 41st episode…

“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…

“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….

“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…

“ 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…