Discussions On Psychoanalysis

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.

Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen continue to explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese manga (comic) that targets adolescents. Pierre’s thesis is that Nekketsu talk to teenagers’ unconscious through displacement, condensation, and symbolization. Weaving together the structural model, object relations, and developmental theories, Pierre and Danielsen ponder how the Nekketsu sagas mirror the inner world of adolescents: the stories become spaces on which adolescents project and see reflected their struggles, growth, longings and desires.

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Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese manga (comic) that targets adolescents. Pierre’s thesis is that Nekketsu talk to teenagers’ unconscious through displacement, condensation, and symbolization. Weaving together the structural model, object relations, and developmental theories, Pierre and Danielsen ponder how the Nekketsu sagas mirror the inner world of adolescents: the stories become spaces on which adolescents project and see reflected their struggles, growth, longings and desires.

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Dear Listeners,

In this month’s episode, we respond to the audience comments, expanding the concept of “judgment” and its implications for the therapeutic work, in particular when confronted with the dilemma of "judgment calls." In addition, we develop some of the ideas related to psychoanalytic theory as a container for the analyst's anxiety, and fantasy as existing outside the realm of morality.

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[00:04] Intro

[01:22] Thank you to a town

[03:08] Is our judgment really suspended?

[09:01] Disclosing our internal process?

[18:17] A need for judgment?

[20:44] What to do with potential unconscious fantasies?

[22:41] Ending

On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis we engage in a conversation on forgiveness. We look at forgiveness from a religious perspective - including the myth of Jonah - and from a psychoanalytic perspective. Among many other questions, we touch on the following: In what ways can we address forgiveness in the therapeutic process? Does morality have a part in the psychoanalytic treatment? How does forgiving oneself is experienced by the patient? And forgiving others? What about the aggressor?

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[0:03] Intro

[01:17] Why we are talking about forgiveness

[03:35] Forgiveness from a religious perspective

[04:45] Pros and Cons of the religious perspective

[06:43] Forgiveness from a psychoanalytic perspective

[15:50] Let's talk about splitting

[17:16] When forgiveness is made harder by psychoanalysis

[20:26] When aggression is happening in a psychoanalytic institute

[21:32] Something that happened to me

[25:28] The necessary dis-identification with the aggressor

[27:07] The myth of Jonah

[32:49] Reading recommendations

[36:23] Ending

On this follow up podcast, your hosts try to answer your questions, and bring up some of your comments on the fee determination process.

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[01:45] Thank you

[02:46] Patients' fantasies on sliding scale

[11:21] Exchange without money

[14:59] When and how analyze tensions around fees

[17:19] How fees are influence by the culture in which the analysis takes place

[21:51] Differences since we recorded the podcast

[24:14] Fees in Training and Institute's budget

[28:31] Experience with Open Path

[32:25] Training before and after the licensing law in NYS

[33:19] Conclusion

Discussion on ways to set up fees in different frames: In training, during the transition to private practice, and then in-network or out of network.

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[0:07] Intro

[04:05] Fee determination in Training

[10:16] Transition out of Training

[13:14] The price we pay

[18:19] Fees In Network

[29:15] Fees Out of Network

[47:06] Social Responsibility

[49:24] Reading recommendations