On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre interviews Dr. Lee Jenkins, Training Analyst and Supervisor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) in New York City.

Dr. Jenkins leads the audience through an abridged chronicle of his upbringing in the south of the United States to his work as a college professor to becoming a psychoanalyst. Dr. Jenkins welcomes us into his personal experiences and weaves a tapestry with stories on race and racism, the impact of the external realities on the internal world of an African American psychoanalyst, and the assumptions and expectations of patients and colleagues. All of this with a nuanced discourse and calm demeanor, a refreshing perspective in our polarized and agitated world.

“Four psychoanalysts enter a bar …” or so would go a variation of the jocular trope, except that this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis was not recorded in a bar, and much less the subject is a funny thing. In this episode, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, invite two other psychoanalysts – Tine Pahl and Peter Jaegerman – to ponder the complexities of race and racism. This podcast was recorded 18 months ago, and you won’t hear a word on COVID or latest social and political unrest experienced in the United States; nevertheless, the conversation between these four psychoanalysts remains current. “Four psychoanalysts record a podcast,” one is French, one is Puerto Rican, another is German, and the fourth is American. We come to the table from different cultural and academic backgrounds (Law, Natural Sciences, Psychology, and Developmental Research) and explore race and racism from sociological and psychoanalytic perspectives. We talk about identity and intersectionality, identification and fantasy, splitting and violence, and much more.

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On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, answer some questions from the audience, e.g. fantasy and note-taking, and delve deeper into the shifting demands and explorations regarding on how to do psychoanalysis in times of pandemic. The psychoanalytic frame has changed, in what ways does it impact the work with our patients? Both analyst and patient are immersed in the same external global reality, i.e. pandemic, what does this mean for the work of interpreting in the transference? In what ways the physical body is part of the analysis, e.g. lying down on the couch or facing a camera; phone or videoconference? What about the analyst's own mortality? Join your hosts as they ponder and unpack their thoughts around these and other questions from the audience.

On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about beginnings and ends of therapy. This time wondering if a therapy can really end.

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On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about beginnings and ends of therapy. This time on the last sessions.

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On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about the beginnings of the treatment. This time on the second session and the following ones.

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In this podcast Grégoire & Edgard discuss how the spread of the virus Covid 19 is impacting their work, how they tried to adapt and the challenges they are facing.

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In this follow up, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen share more about what they mean when they say "patients don't get cured." In addition, they continue to ponder in what ways their perspectives on their private psychoanalytic practices have changed since the first podcast.

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On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, engage in conversation about the beginnings of the treatment.

Among other subjects, we explore the transition we experienced as we moved from seeing patients in a clinical center associated with an institute to our own private practices: we compare and contrast the referring processes, and our understanding of unconscious fantasies associated with being non-licensed and becoming licensed psychoanalysts.

During the podcast, we present our experiences in how we create and sustain the frame, as well as how we engage our patients in a therapeutic alliance that may propel the treatment forward.

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In this month’s installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, we respond to the audience comments to our prior podcasts.