In this episode, Kerry Sulkowicz interviews Mira Erlich-Ginor about a unique experience realized during the time of COVID-19: a WhatsApp group of Israel Psychanalytic Society members that became a lively meeting place, evidence of the well-timed response to an existing need, and a series of Zoom meetings dedicated to working intensively on dreams, in the model of the Social Dreaming Matrix.

Link to paper Social Closeness at a Time of Social Distancing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jaomh6r-tbELrMlRfcFt80tygohHuB8t/view

Link to the Orphaned Chairs and Couches PDF https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z3_rnGK_WbB_MnJbUw4sieWEGS0Vaoxl/view

Kerry Sulkowicz is President-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and Managing Principal, Boswell Group LLC.

Mira Erlich-Ginor is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society; European Representative on the IPA Board (2015-2019); as well as Co-Founder and Secretary of PCCA: Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities, the 2019 recipient of the Sigourney Award.

Introduction recorded by Andy Cohen Etude Op. 25 no. 4 in A minor - 'Paganini' comes from https://musopen.org