Episode Archives

Episode 18: Between Creativity and Destructiveness: The organizational consultant as a container of the collective unconscious in the work group with Dr. Anna Krantz

“ In this kind of unconscious process particularly I think what happens is that the groups use unconscious defense mechanisms, such as denial, splitting, idealization or repression, and we need to help the manager and the group tolerate the anxiety and face the facts.” Anna Krantz, PhD Stockholm Episode Description: Steven Rolfe welcomes Dr. Anna…

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Episode 17: New Books in Psychoanalysis: Analysts Reach into the Community through Podcasting

“ Psychoanalytic ideas deserve to have continuous days in the sun.” Anna Fishzon, PhD, LP and Tracy D. Morgan, LCSW-R, M.Phil. New York Episode Description: Harvey Schwartz welcomes Tracy Morgan and Anna Fishzon. Tracy Morgan is a psychoanalyst  in private practice in NYC and works with individuals, couples and groups. She is the founder, editor…

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Episode 16: Children Overwhelmed by Trauma: A Psychoanalyst Creates a Public Health- Police Initiative with Dr. Steven Marans

“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,…

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Episode 15: Psychoanalysis in the Emory Business School-From Couch to Coach

“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….

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Episode 14: Psychoanalysis in a Multicultural Daycare Center in Yafo, Tel Aviv

“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…

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Episode 13: The Capacity to Self-Reflect: Psychodynamic Intervention in a School in Tehran

“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…

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Episode 12: Sex Trafficking. The UN. A Psychoanalyst

“ 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…

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Episode 11: Community Psychoanalysis in the Outskirts of Lima (Psicoanálisis Comunitario en las afueras de Lima)

“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…

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Episode 10: Refugees. Germany. Psychoanalysis

“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 –…

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Episode 9: “Pleasures of Mind”: Literature and Psychoanalysis:

“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…

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