Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
by Harvey Schwartz MD
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Psychoanalysis applied outside the office.
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- From Historian to Analytic Candidate: The Search for 'Truth' with Agnes Sobolewska Alsberg, PhD (Chicago) · 49 min"It is not enough to find interpretative frames in analysis - there must be a space for analyst and analysand to really regress and live through the traumatic past again. It may…
- The Power and Meaning in Free Association with Barnaby Barratt, PhD, DHS (Johannesburg) · 1 h 6 min"You have to understand the revolution of psychoanalysis as the idea that everything we represent both conceals something about our being-and-becoming as much as it reveals it…
- An Analyst's Reflections on Mourning and What Makes Suffering Tolerable with Sandra Buechler, PhD (New York) · 59 min"I believe that to be inspiring, we have to have conviction. Conviction is the central thing to me. Conviction about treatment itself, and conviction about the way that we do…
- A Cure by Love and Science with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town) · 1 h 18 minAlthough I believe that transference interpretation is the core mechanism of change in psychoanalysis, I don't believe it's the only mechanism. I think there are other things…
- From the Music Studio to the Consulting Room with Edmund Sprunger, MSW (St. Louis) · 51 min"In analytic training, and actually through my own analysis, is really where it happened. I think I just got more of a sense that whatever was going on with my students and the…
- The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Time of War: Iran Today with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Paris) · 52 min"How do we continue doing this work when the socio-political realities are unimaginable? I've been living in Paris the last few years, and I continue to have a full caseload in…
- From Couch to Page: The Craft of Psychodynamic Case Writing with Aner Govrin, PhD (Tel Aviv) · 58 min"We have a trove of treasure. These are the case studies, and we need the case studies - these are the flora and fauna of our field. This is how we work. We work by reading case…
- My Journey from Veterinary Medicine to Psychoanalysis with Michele Gaspar, DVM,MA,LCPC (Chicago) · 53 min"I have always been fascinated by the world of animals. What fascinated me about them is that when you pay attention to animals, this is a world beyond words. Words are not part…
- The Analyst as Transference and Developmental Object with Carla Neely, PhD (Washington, DC) · 57 min"As analysts, we have our own development - as humans, we have our own development. My view is that the work of analysis, if the developmental piece is present, requires some…
- AI, Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis with Amy Levy, PhD (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) · 56 min"Humanism has been the dominant Western belief system of the last century. It's based on the worship of human wisdom, human creation, human experience, human mind, and…
- Analytic Endings: When Enough is Enough and When it Isn't with Joyce Slochower, PhD (New York) · 55 min"When I train candidates I always say start with Freud, learn the interpersonalist, learn the object relations folks, know from what you come, even if you want to be a radical…
- My Evolution as an Analyst with Virginia Ungar, MD (Buenos Aires) · 57 min"I'm not suggesting that repression has lost its place as a fundamental defense mechanism. Repression remains central, coherent, and fundamental to the founding of the…
- How We Care for Ourselves (and each other) with Stephen Bernstein, MD, Melvin Bornstein, MD, Mark Moore, PhD, Jonathan Palmer, MD, Harvey Schwartz, MD, Peggy Warren, MD · 1 h 0 min"We are a group of analysts working in the greater context of the analytic world, but as a group, we have a profound analytic group process that's evolved and in profoundly…
- Mothers and Their Little Girls with Ilene Lefcourt (New York) · 1 h 2 min"In addition to the easy convenience of bathing two children together, or three children together, there are other motivations of bathing them together. Parents are less aware…
- A Memoir of Analysis, Poetry and Mortality with Alice Jones, MD (Berkeley, California) · 58 min"All my writing before this has been poetry, and over the years in my books of poems I found the lines kept getting longer. I think the move towards prose had me working on this…
- A Candidate Engages Patients Who are 'Difficult to Reach' with Pamela Polizzi, LCSW (New York) · 56 min"This came from an experience with a patient. It was early in my analytic training, and I was working with a supervisor who I really admired, and worked with her for a number of…
- An Analyst's 'Couple State of Mind' with Mary Morgan, (London) · 1 h 3 min"[A couple state of mind] is the capacity to be subjectively involved with both individuals, but then importantly, to be able to step back, find a third position, and try to…
- When the Analytic Frame 'Groans' with Allannah Furlong, PhD (Montreal) · 1 h 0 min"To come back to this idea of 'groaning' - I really like it because I think it's a good description of the work we do, but particularly because it refers to Antonio Ferro's…
- The Syntax of Trauma: Parasitic Language, Metaphor and Metonymy with Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel) · 59 min"A saturated state is a state in which the conceptual or emotional object has absolute value, it is already stacked or closed to new meanings and therefore cannot undergo any…
- The Unique Characteristics of Supportive Therapy with Rodrigo Sanchez Escandon (Leeds, England) · 1 h 8 min"This patient taught me a lot. The context was that I just finished my second training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and I felt I needed to prove a lot, and I clearly…
- Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco) · 1 h 7 min"We bring our patterns with us wherever we go, into every relationship, and we necessarily and inevitably bring them into the therapy relationship or the psychoanalytic…
- On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York) · 41 min"The similarity between Freud and Kohelet [Ecclesiastes] is that both of them believe that there's no overarching totalistic system that integrates all the disparate experiences…
- A Memoir of Transformation: a patient examines two analyses at two stages of life with Joan Peters, PhD (Ojai, California) · 1 h 8 min"With Kristi [second analyst], it was much, much deeper. This whole dependent and infantile part of me was coming out. This is psychoanalytic language - I was moving into a…
- Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening with David Joseph, MD (Washington DC) · 1 h 5 min"Some time ago, I realized that there was such a thing for me as experiencing my patients as being friends, but they were psychoanalytic friends. It was a psychoanalytic…
- An Analyst's Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York) · 56 min"This really is the full motivation for my having written the memoir. I want people to know what the process is like; not only what the process is like but what the feelings are…
- When We Feel Provoked by the Politics of Our Patients with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany) · 46 min"I think that the comparison [between political and erotic passions] is related to the danger of transgressing boundaries from the side of the analyst. It's not totally the same…
- Analysts' Reflections on Their Parenting with Andy Cohen (Johannesburg) · 52 min"I was quite protective of the parent reader while I was editing this. I feel that so many of the books out there on the shelf have a real kind of finger wagging quality to…
- From Reacting to Reflecting: "How Psychoanalysis Made Us Better Surgeons" with Mauro Vasella, MD and Flavio Vasella, MD, PhD (Zurich) · 52 min"I have had quite some reactions to the article [on their psychoanalyses]. I was also telling Mauro and my colleagues that out of quite a number of articles I've published on…
- 'Why is This Happening in My Body'?: the meeting of/between patients' imaginings and analysts' theories with Sharone Bergner, PhD (New York) · 57 min"I really think that the purpose is to make space for the unknown, uncertainty, and for our kind of humility in the face of the complexity of our belonging to the physical world…
- Affairs: Exploring the Dynamic Mind with non-Clinical Readers with Juliet Rosenfeld(London) · 59 min"The subject of affairs, I think it's of interest to everybody. We have all had an Oedipal experience - we've all been babies who have at some point realized that we are not the…
- Affects, Curiosity, and Corporal Punishment with Paul Holinger, MD, MPH (Chicago) · 53 min"Now's the time to tell that wonderful story of the little boy. He was about two or three years old, and he went in the icebox to get some milk, and he managed to get this big…
- The 'Necessary Foreignness' of Psychoanalysis with Mariano Horenstein, PhD (Cordoba, Argentina) · 1 h 4 min"In the analysis, the place where you face the experience of otherness, of foreignness, of the unconscious that goes through you, it doesn't appear as knowledge. Of course, in an…
- Care of a Former Analysand with Dementia with Maxine Anderson, MD (Seattle, Washington) · 56 min"I think that my analytic awareness of denial and projection and the concreteness of psychic reality when executive function wanes, that I could help the other caretakers to…
- Before 'Ghosts' become 'Ancestors' with Shalini Masih, PhD (Worcestershire, UK) · 59 min"All of this together shaped how I began to think about mind, not as something to be mastered, but as a landscape of the unspoken whether it was ghosts or griefs or desires that…
- Candidates' Reflections on their Psychoanalytic Training with Himanshu Agrawal, MD (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) · 49 min"The theme that I found with IPSO [International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization] was that there was a common theme [in psychoanalytic training]. There was an initial phase…
- Reflections on Our Changing Field with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna) · 1 h 3 min"When we reconstruct [in a patient] a possible lacking object or role or function, we see that if the analyst himself has been able and the patient allowing him to be able to…
- Discovering the Process of One's Mind with Fred Busch, PhD (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) · 59 min"The original papers that were written about the analyst's unconscious being attuned to the patient's unconscious by Hyman and Racker, in both cases they talk about this…
- Religion, 'Allegorical Objects' and Levinas with David Black, PhD (London) · 56 min"The idea of analytic neutrality, which was more or less a cliche truth when I was training back in the 1980s, is clearly getting at something very important, which is that we…
- Childhood Memories: Their Impact on Mothers and Their 0–3-year-old Children with Ilene Lefcourt (New York) · 59 min"There are very specific fears that people have that are specifically related to their own childhood, and I'd like to give an example. A mom with twins had a kidnapping fear. She…
- Forbidden Intimacy: Marrying the 'Other' with Ashis Roy, PhD (Kolkata, India) · 56 min"The amount of guilt and the sense of alienation that people feel when they fall in love with someone who is 'outside', and the struggle that they have to undergo to explain that…
- The Making of the Documentary: Outsider. Freud with Yair Qedar (Tel Aviv) · 56 min"I belong to the race that in the Middle Ages was blamed for all the plagues and such experiences have a sobering effect, and they do not arouse the tendency to believe in…
- A Fourth Pillar: Unlocking the Power of Case Writing in Analytic Training with Stephen B. Bernstein, MD (Brookline, Mass.) · 45 min"I've had the experience of having some wonderful supervisees, many of whom have done quite fine work and where it has not been an issue of any kind of great concerns. And…
- The Unspoken: Analyst's 'Delinquencies', Post-Treatment Contact and Aging with Joyce Slochower, PhD (New York) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 172"I feel so strongly about this [collective commemorative ritual]. I think that early psychoanalytic writing overemphasized the value of separation-individuation and pathologized…
- Poetry of the Mind and the Process of Mourning with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts) · 1 h 8 min · Episode 171"What Freud may have missed here is that the investment in the lost object is a much more reconstructive and integrative process. It's one where we remember all the stories that…
- "Before Painting the Bird, You Must Become the Bird" with Jonathan Palmer, MD (Newton, Mass.) · 1 h 2 min · Episode 170"A number of art schools in the early 60s said: "Clearly, it is the relationship of the painter to the medium that is the essence of painting - the painter must be emotionally…
- Trauma and Survival: Eddy de Wind and Viktor Frankl with Dan Stone, PhD (London) · 48 min · Episode 169"The Holocaust seems to me to be the paradigmatic case of the acting out of unconscious fears, fantasies and projections onto another group that has ever occurred. It is the…
- Psychoanalysis and the Working Through of a Vineyard's Slave History with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town) · 1 h 13 min · Episode 168"The historian [of the vineyard] gave us regular feedback on what she was finding, and she also brought in oral historians to take our own life histories. There's also a…
- Chaos and Transformation in Psychoanalysis: 'the Bet on Freedom' with Gabriela Goldstein, Ph.D. (Buenos Aires) · 1 h 6 min · Episode 167"I think it is very interesting to open a debate and talk about this impact of the culture, this epoch, in the subjectivity and never losing the internal work within…
- A Sociologist/Psychoanalyst Writes a Novel/Memoir with Roberta Satow, PhD (Washington, CT) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 166"I was very interested in the unspoken thoughts and feelings of the patient because I think one of the things about free association is that in the beginning most of what's going…
- An Analyst's Journey with Cancer with Jhuma Basak, PhD (Calcutta) · 58 min · Episode 165"There was a lot of dilemma, and I wasn't able to definitely deal with the sudden knowledge of my cancer and to be able to impart that information in a more containing and…
