“The background for this is actually seeing psychoanalytic principles as a basic science in  thinking about how do we help people… For me, this combination of curiosity, justice, equality and alleviating suffering came together in a very powerful way around this work.” Steven Marans PhD New Haven Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Steven Marans,…

“Especially now in business, what’s  valued in leadership are the soft skills, not the dictatorial, top down command and control. This is a time when analysts can be extremely valuable in the business world.” Lisa Rosof MD, JD Atlanta Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Lisa Rosof from the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta….

“I thought I should be sensitive, accessible and alive, in order to enable the baby to wake up and to start moving something inside that will bring up her potentials and start to BE.” Hamutal Raz Shiloach, MA Tel Aviv Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Hamutal Raz Shiloach clinical psychologist and a training and supervising…

“We begin introducing children to emotions, how they felt, their functions and how to deal with their intra and interpersonal feelings like anger, shame, fear and envy and we did this through storytelling, paintings and plays.” Rosa Famini, MA & Shahrzad Hashemi, MA Tehran Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Shahrzad Hashemi and Rosa Famini. Shahrzad…

“ I listen with my psychoanalytic ear, for the unconscious, for defense mechanisms, affect, ego strengths and relationship between us, but at the UN I specifically want to focus on my work using a psychoanalytic lens” Vivian B. Pender, MD New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Vivian B. Pender, who is a Clinical…

“Pero nosotros mantenemos el enfoque psicoanalítico para comenzar desde nuestra manera de escuchar, la manera de escuchar aquello que se nos transmite con la convicción de que los contenidos sociales y culturales son absolutamente susceptibles de ser entendidos y darles sentido desde nuestra escucha.  But we maintain the psychoanalytic approach to start from our way…

“I was so grateful to psychoanalysis. I have never needed the psychoanalytic professionalism as much as in these very unconventional situations. It took the woman out of the shock of her freezing psychic state. In the acute situation just to meet a human being who dared to try to stand the horror of what she’s gone through –…

“There were so many opportunities to ponder what’s going on with different characters, what’s going on with tensions between generations, what’s going on with family relations. It’s as if psychoanalysis shed a new light on literature and it’s as if literature, its persuasiveness and accomplishment of great literature, seemed to confirm psychoanalytic understanding of how…

“ Both analyst and patient will have to share a bitter taste of abandonment, of boredom, of antagonism and they have to remain together, because together they will be able to construct something to get out of it.” Jose Zusman, MD Rio de Janiero Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Jose Zusman who is a…

“ Physical illness begins a very serious journey where there is a disconnect between one’s sense of embeddedness in one’s own body, to all of a sudden being contained within a persecutory object.” Gavril Hercz MD Toronto Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Gavril Hercz to the podcast. Dr Hercz is both a practicing nephrologist…