On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in an frank and open conversation about their experiences with patients who are looking for something the analyst cannot provide. The hosts look at the tension created when the tectonic plates of what institutes define as psychoanalytic work, the fantasies of a patient seeking psychotherapy, and the analyst's limitations collide in psychoanalytic room.

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[01:56] What are people looking at?

[09:49] Unclear expectations

[10:12] Patients who might need a different psychoanalytic approach

[13:36] What makes us feel like some patients are not going to be able to work with psychoanalysis

[16:26] Some shortcomings of training institutions

[19:30] The burden of the dreamed psychoanalysis