Discussions On Psychoanalysis

On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Dr. Susan Kasouf – a licensed psychoanalyst in New York – joins Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen on a discussion on climate change from a psychoanalytic perspective.

During the podcast we explore with Susan themes like “the more than human environment,” a way of talking that does not separate us off but acknowledges that we are inseparable from the environment, and “catastrophic thinking,” not as a sign of pathology but as an appropriate response to the magnitude of the damage to planet earth, i.e. loss on a scale not experienced before. We ponder questions like the role of the analyst in the containment and processing of catastrophic thinking; what is the movement from one-person to two-person psychology, and beyond with the inclusion of the social matrix; what are the connections between fantasy, reality, narcissism, and denial in the context of climate change. This is the first of a two parts podcast.

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[00:17] Intro

[01:55] Introducting Susan Kassouf

[02:53] Weather and Climate

[06:53] Climate change as a theme in our offices

[09:42] The more than human environment

[11:21] The catastrophic thinking

[16:46] Navigating individual and group dimensions

[23:03] Climate deniers and sense of causality

[28:34] Ending

In this episode, we continue our discussion on how to build one's own practice.

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[04:07] Considerations on websites and profiles

[12:53] Building a professional network

[20:52] In or Out of Network

[33:22] How to find your location

[39:35] Location and fee structure

[40:54] Speaking one's mother tongue or not

[42:23] Website content

[47:29] What about Spanish speaking patients?

[50:08] Location and professional goals

[51:39] Do poor people have an unconscious?

[56:27] Symptoms relief and more

[57:49] Pay attention to your online presence

In this episode of Discussions On Psychoanalysis, your hosts welcome Tenille Blair Neff, practicing psychoanalyst in Missouri and former Member-In-Training at NPAP, to discuss how to build one's own practice.

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[02:46] Introducing Tenille Blair Neff

[05:11] During the training

[15:17] Fee determination during the training

[18:46] Right after the training ended

[24:44] Business Card warning

[25:31] Having a space you can control

[26:29] Building a network

[28:46] Therapyden

[32:00] Addressing patients who don't know psychoanalysis

In this podcasts, your hosts continue their (unexpected) discussion on patients' and analysts' expectations. We are going to wonder if we are fetishising a particular approach to psychoanalysis? We will bring up the question of the frequency and the analyst's desire, and how important it is to maintain a sense of creativity in our frames.

This is the last podcast for the year 2021. Happy Holidays :)

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[03:10] Are we fetishising a certain approach to psychoanalysis?

[08:47] Question of frequency and the analyst's desire

[16:49] Creativity of the frame

[27:40] Ending

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.

Part 1 of 2 podcasts.

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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

Second part of our interview with Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies and practices as a "social relational psychoanalyst" in New York City.

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[02:02] Obstacles encountered in her practice

[07:02] Resistances to the Social in the US psychoanalytic field

[14:28] How her practice changed over time

[25:27] Psychoanalysts as a political voice

[33:14] Conclusion

On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen interview Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies as a "social relational psychoanalyst." Through their candid dialogue, hosts and guest explore the web of forces - personal and social - that lead a person to become a psychoanalyst, another person to desire being in psychoanalysis, and these two to find each other in the therapy room. We engage in themes of class, race, immigration, and we ponder what would psychoanalytic training look like if it were immersed in the life of communities. In addition, we have an opportunity to hear in what ways the work of Erich Fromm informs the practice of Dr. Silver.

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[0:17] Intro

[04:22] Presentations

[13:51] Identification with the analyst

[17:22] How psychoanalysis is defined differently in different spaces

[21:24] Eric Fromm

[24:40] Including the Social in the training

[29:37] The social as a defense

[31:13] Overlaps btw psychoanalysis and sociology

This month, Edgard Fransico Danielsen and Grégoire Pierre discuss some aspects of how modernity and post modernity affect our work as psychoanalysts.

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[04:16] The loss of transcendence

[09:00] The shift in sublimation and social assignation

[14:46] Excluding the social / excluding the conflict

[17:46] Psychoanalysis as a religion

[24:38] What we do with our finitude

On the 22nd installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre & Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in conversation about the covid vaccine and the impact on their practices. What was their internal experience when they received the shot: relief, anxiety, shame, guilt? What were their phantasies? They address the various forces that drove them back to their physical offices and to in-person psychoanalysis. What has been the experiences of analysands and analysts seeing each other in person? What about the sense of time and the sense of space? What does wearing or not a mask in the psychoanalytic room mean to the dyad? In what ways are we mourning the pandemic and moving into a new phase?

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[1:45] Vaccination

[10:40] Return to the office

[34:00] All Distant Therapy

[41:26] Differences between the different kind of remote therapy

[49:00] The Phone

[51:19] How Interpretations Differ

[55:16] Bonus

In a new episode of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, engage in their last discussion of the series on psychoanalysis and the social. In particular, Grégoire and Edgard Francisco share their thoughts on the assumptions and cultural perceptions the members of the dyad - analyst and analysand - may have of each other while listening to each other in languages outside their mother's tongues. In addition, they discuss their ideas on the ubiquitous presence - conscious and unconscious - of the social locations of the patient. Finally, the hosts explore the meaning of fee and the phantasies associated with it depending on the taxation structures in different countries. The hosts end on the idea that psychotherapy is psychoanalysis when it disrupts social assumptions and phantasies.

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[0:00] Intro

[2:00] Language

[4:36] Fees and Culture

[11:00] Symptoms and cultural/group dynamic

[18:35] What we disclose and what we don't

[19:30] General Relativity of human values

[29:00] Conclusion