Discussions On Psychoanalysis

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In this episode your hosts talk about how they met psychoanalysis and what they appreciated about it.

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[0:22] Intro

[03:04] Edgard's discovery of psychoanalysis

[06:09] Grégoire's discovery of psychoanalysis

[17:21] Edgard's choice

[19:06] Psychoanalysis in a University

[22:52] Choosing NPAP

[24:14] Clergy & recognizing the missing

[28:18] Bonneuil

[30:07] Normal & Pathological continuity

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Dear Listeners,

In this episode we try talk about how impossible it is to interact with our patients without closing doors, how it can be beneficial but can also hurt the process.

[0:22] Intro

[04:13] Hu Hum or not Hu Hum]

[07:23] Masochism

[09:50] Leaving space to the ambivalence

[12:26] How do we need to assume?

[15:45] Support & Anxiety

[18:06] Impossible to reach a satisfactory result

[22:02] Wanting psychoanalysis to be complete

[25:11] Holding patients

[29:59] Learning to be vulnerable

[35:40] Ending

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Dear Listeners,

In this episode, we try to question how we interact with our patients, and more specifically how aggression can be at times expressed despite our conscious best intentions.

This podcast, recorded a few months ago, is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague Peter Jaegerman who died recently.

[0:28] Intro

[02:02] How can we know that we are not attacking our patients?

[4:58] How much do we rely on transference and counter-transference?

[14:29] Does the analyst have a transference toward patients?

[16:22] Virtue signaling?

[18:33] Resistance and ambivalence

[21:52] Aggression through agreement

[29:37] The risk of oversimplifying the experience of our patients

[38:33] Ending

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Dear Listeners,

This month we are trying to question our place as analysts in a therapy: how do we know what we know is correct? Where do we speak from? And where do patients speak from?

Happy Holidays!

[0:20] Intro

[03:30] What do we do?

[14:53] Where do we position ourselves?

[20:48] Are we splitting?

[29:00] Where do patients come from?

[33:10] How to know when we are in the wrong?

[35:34] Issues not explored by societies

[40:10] Ending

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Dear Listeners,

In this episode, your hosts are discussing the necessity and difficulties to question theories in our daily practice.

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[0:18] Intro

[3:26] Is it always bad to not adopt the beliefs of our time?

[11:41] How, What & Why

[18:19] Can we know the why of everything?

[24:13] Are the new developments always better?

[29:37] Psychoanalysis as a disruption

[31:29] How do we distinguish what to keep and what to change?

[36:55] Ending

Dear Listeners,

In this episode your hosts question how psychoanalysis interacts with societies, and how psychoanalysis can help us get a better sense of some unspoken nuances in the social discourse.

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[0:22] Intro

[03:36] Hetero-normative

[08:45] Psychoanalytic terms "normalized" in society

[12:19] What does gay/straight mean?

[20:11] The struggle with identity politics

[22:01] Is castration inherent to psychoanalysis?

[25:09] Distinction between differences and values

[28:46] From the patient to the social

[32:10] Question of what and how

[37:30] What and when we don't question as analysts

[39:36] Ending

In this episode, your hosts continue their discussion on different aspects of neutrality in psychoanalysis. After a few general comments, we will address the balance between leaving all doors open and taking a stand, how some themes attract complexity, and when resistances can be at the disservice of both patients and analysts.

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[0:21] Intro

[01:48] Some general comments

[05:58] Balance btw leaving all doors open and taking a stand

[15:45] Some themes attract complexity

[25:19] Resistances at the disservice of both patients and analysts

[30:26] The weight of public beliefs

[36:48] When the discussion becomes too concrete

[39:35] Ending

Dear Listeners,

In this episode, your hosts engage in a discussion on how to think about a required neutrality and the inevitable opinions a psychoanalyst is going to have on certain topics. The discussion might sound less directed as usual because it was so.

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[00:17] Intro

[03:23] What is "neutrality" in practice?

[06:16] Benevolent neutrality

[11:20] Intervention & neutrality

[18:47] What about the analyst's beliefs?

[22:00] How do we work with socially sensitive issues?

[27:00] The therapeutic alliance

[33:09] Psychoanalysts aligning themselves to the beliefs of the time

[37:53] Ending

Dear Listeners,

In this 3rd and, most likely, last episode on how to build one's own practice, we talk about the very concrete expenses one has to go through to start a practice. Most of this discussion does not apply if you only want to work remotely.

Special Thank to our dear friend Tenille Blair Neff for joining us once more!

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[0:21]Intro

[03:27] NPI Number

[04:09] An Office

[12:41] A Professional Chair

[21:38] A Desk

[22:41] A Couch

[27:11] Pillow(s), Rug, Shelves, Printer, Coat Hanger, Hand table

[29:51] Lights in the office

[31:41] Computer related Items

[35:02] Insurances

[37:05] Arts

[38:32] Office and Practice Management

[42:00] Ending

Dear Listener,

In this episode we continue our discussion on climate change with Susan Kassouf. We talk about traumatized sensibility, a concept important to Susan, about narcissism and castration, how the planet can hide the civilization, and the need to develop a new language to think climate change in psychoanalysis, and much more. A difficult but needed discussion as the magnitude of the threat of climate change is hard to grasp for many.

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[02:25] Traumatized sensibility

[07:14] How do we help patients to get there?

[10:30] Narcissism and castration

[14:21] Thinking positively

[16:50] Can a planet hide a civilization?

[20:08] The problem with symbolic thinking

[23:23] A new language

[25:00] The power structure

[30:58] The unthinkable pollution and resources

[35:51] What about the training?

[41:26] Ending