Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

By Harvey Schwartz MD

Alternative Health

What's Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch about?

Psychoanalysis applied outside the office.

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Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch episodes:

04.21.2024
'Does it Still Taste like Psychoanalysis’? - University Affiliation in Finland with Jan Johansson (Helsinki)
"Psychoanalysis landed in Finland in the 50s; before the Second World War there were one or two persons familiar with psychoanalysis. In the 50s, psychoanalysis got a lot of interest in Finland but then there was no possibility of training...
04.07.2024
The Presence of 'Companioning' in Psychoanalysis with Robert Grossmark, PhD (New York)
“My interest is to rather than continue with the psychoanalytic tilt which has tended to try to find the words - to find the areas of the analyst that has words to engage with these states and then help the...
03.24.2024
The Dynamic Underpinnings of the Eating Disorders with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD (San Francisco)
"The first line treatment for adolescents with anorexia now is family-based therapy typically, which involves helping the parents facilitate the refeeding of the adolescent. So, I was working with the patient in that way and found it to be helpful...
03.10.2024
Why Winnicott? - Part II: The Surviving Object Joel Whitebook, Ph.D. (New York), interviews Jan Abram, Ph.D. (London).
"The ability to play means we can indulge in a kind of illusion, not delusion, and make a distinction. It always amazes me that when the patient arrives, they like the routine of an analysis; nobody breaks that, it's an...
02.25.2024
Female Sexuality in India Today: Through an Analytic Lens with Amrita Narayanan, PsyD (Goa, India)
“I was speaking to the tendency of the popular media to perceive narratives of Indian women's sexuality via the lens of oppression. Now, of course, sexual violence against women is an important concern in India, as it is worldwide. But...
02.11.2024
Infertility and its Unconscious Reverberations with Mali Mann, MD (San Francisco)
"The genetic asymmetry [with sperm donorship] will create issues and complications - it puts a strain on the relationship, i.e. who is excluded; who has more rights to this product? In other words, if the sperm donor is from a...
01.28.2024
The Repair of a Frame Gone Awry with Alan Karbelnig, PhD (Pasadena, California)
"As I elaborate in the book, there was no physical contact or romantic engagement. The reason why I chose the ‘lover’ as the [psychoanalytic] analogy is, in the real world outside of psychoanalytic practice, where else do you have an...
01.14.2024
An Analyst’s Catholicism with Ginta Remeikis, MD (Rockville, Maryland)
"What's the spiritual room? For me, it does tend to be a connection to something greater than just me; it is a contemplative space; it is getting to the core of who I am, allowing in some ways for the...
12.17.2023
Our Oral Tradition and the Aging Analyst with Nancy McWilliams, PhD (Lambertville, New Jersey)
"My analysis not only allowed me to grieve [my mother], with my analyst patiently pushing me in the direction of my feelings, but it radically transformed my life. I wouldn't have had kids if I hadn't had my analysis because...
12.03.2023
The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Michael Levin, Psy.D and Adam Blum, Psy.D (San Francisco Bay Area)
"The fact that music is so important for our constitution - that music is almost how we move in the world, that our own bodies are played through by musical forms, that the way we relate to our own way...
11.19.2023
IPA Prejudices, Discrimination and Racism Committee with Abel Fainstein, MD (Buenos Aires)
“Discrimination is something that is needed for the child to create himself as a person. You need to be discriminated from the other, and the other is useful for you, as Freud said, as a model, as a rival, as...
11.01.2023
Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Ehrlich-Ginor, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv)
“The situation was that I went with my husband Danny, who is also a clinical psychologist, and we were on the team that came and told people when family members were identified and that they had been murdered. There was...
10.29.2023
Treatment of Child Soldiers: Traditional Healers and their Dynamic Underpinnings with Martha Bragin, PhD MSW (New York)
"The gift of the [traditional] healer that he shares with those of us who do psychoanalytic work is that we are given an idea of the human mind as being always in a process of mediating the real world and...
10.15.2023
Why Winnicott? Joel Whitebook, PhD (New York) interviews Jan Abrams, PhD (London)
"Instead of the analyst being in a position where they know something about the patient, they are with the patient. As Winnicott says in his late work, if you are a philosopher in your armchair, you have to come out...
10.01.2023
From Filmmaking to Psychoanalysis with Karen Dougherty, FIPA (Toronto)
"I made a film for PepWeb on the research of Beatrice Beebe. I made the video for her picture book, The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book, and various other short films. These are deep dives into mother-infant dyads that reveal something,...
09.17.2023
The Presence of Religion within the Psychoanalytic Dyad with Nathan Szajnberg, MD (Palo Alto)
"We know as analysts there’s a long literature on mourning and its connection to creativity from the time of Freud’s work to George Pollock's work and others - but that's too intellectual; let me make it more personal, and then...
09.03.2023
Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times with Don Carveth, PhD (Toronto)
"Conscience represents ethics that are not socially constructed and not socially learned but built-in. In fact, the whole of psychoanalysis is grounded in such an ethic - we all as analysts value life over death, we value truth over lies,...
08.06.2023
Are Patients Different Today? with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna)
"One of the changes that analysis provided me with was an awareness about how similar we all are, of course with a few differences. For me, an analyst is before all a person who had the opportunity to realize how...
07.22.2023
From Technology to Psychoanalysis with Nicolle Zapien, PhD (Oakland)
"Technology is based on the premise that there can be an optimization of things through algorithmic understanding. ‘Ones and zeros’ data can be manipulated and thus produce an optimal outcome which is a lovely idea for certain kinds of things....
07.09.2023
High - Conflict Divorce: Psychoanalytic Perspectives with Arthur Leonoff, Ph.D. (Ottawa)
"In divorce it's fundamental that even though the couple ends, there's not an end to the family. We still owe a debt to the other - that other who offered to love us, who we had the opportunity to love,...
06.25.2023
The Role of Defense Analysis in Child (and Adult) Treatment with Leon Hoffman, MD (New York)
“The basic principle in defense analysis is that one approaches what is going on right now - it's an experience-near technique. You don't make conjectures about what would be called experience-distant phenomenon until you have a lot of material, a...
06.11.2023
Freud's Nephew and the Creation of 'Buzz' around Psychoanalysis with Joseph Malherek, Ph.D. (Raleigh, North Carolina)
"He [Bernays] proposed to his uncle that he’d do a translation of this book that had been given to him and Freud, perhaps without thinking too much about it, approved the idea. Bernays went about hiring a translator who was...
05.28.2023
Technique is Character Rationalized with Lee Grossman, MD (Oakland, Ca.)
"Analytic candidates in training struggle with the fact that you tend to get thrown into the deep water before you really know what you're doing. Then, the anxious candidate will typically struggle to find something to hang on to -...
05.14.2023
One Analyst - Two Continents: Treatment Differences? with Jeanne Wolff- Bernstein, Ph.D. (Vienna)
"When you're with a patient you take all that you know in your head, all the theory, and you throw it away. You have to listen to the patient and then maybe afterward something becomes clear - you...
04.30.2023
International Commentaries on the State of our Field with Fred Busch, Ph.D. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
"I've long had concerns about the practice of psychoanalysis and that the theory underlying it has become a veritable Tower of Babel. We have these multiple views where everything is accepted as ‘psychoanalysis,’ but they really can't be because they're...
04.16.2023
Children Exposed to Pornography: the Erosion of Latency with Franco D’Alberton, Ph.D. & Andrea Scardovi, MD, Ph.D. (Bologna)
"They interviewed more than 6,000 American parents and their children from ages eight to thirteen. They wanted to identify what the perception and realities were of the parents' use of technology. It is important to know that about...
04.02.2023
“Music Sounds the Way Emotion Feels”: from the Piano to the Couch with Julie Nagel, PhD (Dexter, Michigan)
"Some of the shared concepts - even words that psychoanalysis and musicians use - such as conflict, ambiguity, silences, dissonance, resolution or not, working through, is in the Mozart you've heard. What you hear in the very opening four measures...
03.19.2023
'Wearing the Attributes' - 50 years as an Analyst with Judith Chused, MD (Washington, DC)
“A child [patient] makes a mistake, upsets things - one doesn't console or complain, but just reflects whatever the patient's affect was at that moment, such as, ‘that seems to bother you’ or ‘it's hard to put those two...
03.05.2023
From Immunology to Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Primitive Mental States with Shiri Ben Bassat (Tel Aviv)
“This is the first time that I really felt what is meant by cell relations. You have object relations and you have part-object relations and anxieties that are depressive and schizophrenic. But when I deal with primitive anxieties, I...
02.19.2023
Freud Encounters C.S. Lewis as imagined by Mark St. Germain
"[in the play Freud's Last Session]... with the sound of the bombers both men react as they did the first time - with fear. But this time instead of disguising it they admit to it. That admittance was the...
02.05.2023
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Evil with Dr. Roger Kennedy (London)
"I feel as a psychoanalyst one has to respond to the world. We can’t just simply remain in our consulting rooms although that has always been vitally important for my identity and thinking. We can’t turn a blind eye...
01.22.2023
Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima)
"Psychoanalysis is a translation of what I call in Spanish, Psicoanalisis Criollo, which means that we are hybrid cultures in Latin America, and that is something that we should never forget. We have been acting in the Psychoanalytical Society...
01.08.2023
Psychoanalysis and Opera – rejoining the verbal and non-verbal with Steven Goldberg, MD and Lee Rather, Ph.D. (San Francisco)
“Unconsciously, or sometimes just without really focusing on it, we’re always responding to the musicality of the patient’s voice. I think that careful listening and study of opera really hones our ability to do that. We pay more attention...
12.11.2022
Psychoanalytic Fieldwork: A Woman Psychanalyst (Training Analyst IPA) Working in Eastern Africa with Dr. phil. Barbara Saegesser (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)
"The psychoanalytic frame I have built in myself helps me to find a way to not go too near and not be too distant to a person. It is other than what we learn when we learn to be psychoanalysts....
11.27.2022
Teaching Dynamic Therapy through Storytelling with Anne Adelman, Ph.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) and Kerry Malawista, Ph.D. (Potomac, MD)
“When I first started teaching it was most often done through theory, and teaching these complicated words with hard-to-understand concepts. It never made sense to me, to be honest, as a student myself. So, when I began teaching, I would...
11.13.2022
Analytic Desire, Listening and Letting Go with Mitchell Wilson, MD (Berkeley)
"It seemed to me in my training, also in my scholarly pursuits, that desire did not have conceptual status in most analytic clinical theory. Most traditions did not have a way of talking about the analyst’s motivations with the exception...
10.30.2022
Polish Psychoanalysis, Ukraine and Intergenerational Trauma with Edyta Biernacka (Krakow)
"During the treatment they start to think about their family, they want to understand what really happened to their parents that made them such monsters towards their own children? They start to look for the origins of their family and...
10.16.2022
Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran)
"Aren't these daughters of Persia retelling that myth [Shahnameh] as we speak - they put their hair down, Rudabeh put her hair down. This time maybe from this union there will now be a baby girl that will be...
10.02.2022
From Neurology to Psychoanalysis with Iftah Biran, MD (Tel Aviv) and Rachel Gross, MD (Philadelphia)
"I started with an analyst right as I was ending residency and starting the fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders. It was right in this transition time, and over time it transitioned into a psychoanalysis, and I think...
09.18.2022
Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD
"I feel very often that I can detect when people are doing case presentations, this ubiquitous tendency to not bother about the body. At a very superficial level it is accepted that we run around in bodies. What is...
09.04.2022
From Education to Psychoanalysis with Susana Merlo, MA (Buenos Aires) and Ellen Pinsky, PsyD (Cambridge, Mass)
"I think that writing also is among the things that help me think this through and get there. When I finished my degree, I was actually very pessimistic - I had no idea that at close to age 55-56 that...
08.21.2022
“Nothing is Unimportant” - Contemporaneous Records of Mass Trauma: The Ringelblum Archive with Samuel Kassow, PhD
"The Archive begins in 1940. The Germans themselves do not decide they are going to murder all the Jews, they don’t decide on the Final Solution until late 1941. When the archive begins, Ringelblum is creating the archive in...
07.17.2022
Dynamic Psychotherapy of a Tortured Patient: Mentalization, Counter-transference, and Culture with Sverre Varvin, MD, Dr. Philos (Oslo, Norway)
"I think every encounter with the patient is a potential re-humanizing experience, also for me as a therapist. Because when we are slowly experiencing this kind of positive emotion, especially when it comes to turning points, where the patient realizes...
07.03.2022
The Analyst's Early Experiences: Emerging Themes in Theory and Practice with Karen Maroda, PhD
"We are chosen [as children] for the roles of peacekeeper, soother, and possibly entertainer at times, because we temperamentally have been gifted with a certain degree of empathy, sensitivity, and psychological mindedness that was not true of our siblings....
06.19.2022
Older Analysts Aging Well with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD
“Everyone was all for inclusion. There wasn't anybody who felt that this movement for inclusion was anything but good. But there were a lot of worries that in our focus on inclusion that we’ve turned away from thinking about...
06.05.2022
An Analyst's Journey to Authenticity and Presence with Henry Markman, MD
"What you are describing in the process of reading the book is what I am aspiring to which is a kind of deep emotional dialogue both in the book with the reader, but also in my work with the patient....
05.22.2022
The Psychoanalytic Consultant with Glen Gabbard, MD (Houston)
"The role that an analyst plays is so important in terms of how people can be wounded, shamed and hurt in a variety of different ways. We need to be very thoughtful about our own residual psychopathology because no...
05.08.2022
PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities) and Working with Ukrainian Current Atrocities with Mira Erlich-Ginor (Tel-Aviv)
"You can do as much about the legacy of the Holocaust - and what I took from my depressed mother who lost all her family in the Holocaust - there is only so much I could do in personal...
04.24.2022
The Masculine Trajectory and the Development of Male Interiority with Michael Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles)
“The father carries the separation function which is very important in terms of progressive differentiation from the mother rather than forceful opposition. It rests on something else that I think that we in psychoanalysis don’t take seriously enough -...
04.05.2022
Report from Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society with Igor Romanov, Ph.D. (Kharkiv)
"I have some very close friends in Russia and some of them emigrated now and some of them are in Russia. Of course, I can speak with them very personally about my experience. I see how much guilt they...

What's Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch about?

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Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch episodes:

'Does it Still Taste like Psychoanalysis’? - University Affiliation in Finland with Jan Johansson (Helsinki)

The Presence of 'Companioning' in Psychoanalysis with Robert Grossmark, PhD (New York)

The Dynamic Underpinnings of the Eating Disorders with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD (San Francisco)

Why Winnicott? - Part II: The Surviving Object Joel Whitebook, Ph.D. (New York), interviews Jan Abram, Ph.D. (London).

Female Sexuality in India Today: Through an Analytic Lens with Amrita Narayanan, PsyD (Goa, India)

Infertility and its Unconscious Reverberations with Mali Mann, MD (San Francisco)

The Repair of a Frame Gone Awry with Alan Karbelnig, PhD (Pasadena, California)

An Analyst’s Catholicism with Ginta Remeikis, MD (Rockville, Maryland)

Our Oral Tradition and the Aging Analyst with Nancy McWilliams, PhD (Lambertville, New Jersey)

The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Michael Levin, Psy.D and Adam Blum, Psy.D (San Francisco Bay Area)

IPA Prejudices, Discrimination and Racism Committee with Abel Fainstein, MD (Buenos Aires)

Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Ehrlich-Ginor, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv)

Treatment of Child Soldiers: Traditional Healers and their Dynamic Underpinnings with Martha Bragin, PhD MSW (New York)

Why Winnicott? Joel Whitebook, PhD (New York) interviews Jan Abrams, PhD (London)

From Filmmaking to Psychoanalysis with Karen Dougherty, FIPA (Toronto)

The Presence of Religion within the Psychoanalytic Dyad with Nathan Szajnberg, MD (Palo Alto)

Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times with Don Carveth, PhD (Toronto)

Are Patients Different Today? with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna)

From Technology to Psychoanalysis with Nicolle Zapien, PhD (Oakland)

High - Conflict Divorce: Psychoanalytic Perspectives with Arthur Leonoff, Ph.D. (Ottawa)

The Role of Defense Analysis in Child (and Adult) Treatment with Leon Hoffman, MD (New York)

Freud's Nephew and the Creation of 'Buzz' around Psychoanalysis with Joseph Malherek, Ph.D. (Raleigh, North Carolina)

Technique is Character Rationalized with Lee Grossman, MD (Oakland, Ca.)

One Analyst - Two Continents: Treatment Differences? with Jeanne Wolff- Bernstein, Ph.D. (Vienna)

International Commentaries on the State of our Field with Fred Busch, Ph.D. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)

Children Exposed to Pornography: the Erosion of Latency with Franco D’Alberton, Ph.D. & Andrea Scardovi, MD, Ph.D. (Bologna)

“Music Sounds the Way Emotion Feels”: from the Piano to the Couch with Julie Nagel, PhD (Dexter, Michigan)

'Wearing the Attributes' - 50 years as an Analyst with Judith Chused, MD (Washington, DC)

From Immunology to Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Primitive Mental States with Shiri Ben Bassat (Tel Aviv)

Freud Encounters C.S. Lewis as imagined by Mark St. Germain

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Evil with Dr. Roger Kennedy (London)

Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima)

Psychoanalysis and Opera – rejoining the verbal and non-verbal with Steven Goldberg, MD and Lee Rather, Ph.D. (San Francisco)

Psychoanalytic Fieldwork: A Woman Psychanalyst (Training Analyst IPA) Working in Eastern Africa with Dr. phil. Barbara Saegesser (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)

Teaching Dynamic Therapy through Storytelling with Anne Adelman, Ph.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) and Kerry Malawista, Ph.D. (Potomac, MD)

Analytic Desire, Listening and Letting Go with Mitchell Wilson, MD (Berkeley)

Polish Psychoanalysis, Ukraine and Intergenerational Trauma with Edyta Biernacka (Krakow)

Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran)

From Neurology to Psychoanalysis with Iftah Biran, MD (Tel Aviv) and Rachel Gross, MD (Philadelphia)

Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD

From Education to Psychoanalysis with Susana Merlo, MA (Buenos Aires) and Ellen Pinsky, PsyD (Cambridge, Mass)

“Nothing is Unimportant” - Contemporaneous Records of Mass Trauma: The Ringelblum Archive with Samuel Kassow, PhD

Dynamic Psychotherapy of a Tortured Patient: Mentalization, Counter-transference, and Culture with Sverre Varvin, MD, Dr. Philos (Oslo, Norway)

The Analyst's Early Experiences: Emerging Themes in Theory and Practice with Karen Maroda, PhD

Older Analysts Aging Well with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD

An Analyst's Journey to Authenticity and Presence with Henry Markman, MD

The Psychoanalytic Consultant with Glen Gabbard, MD (Houston)

PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities) and Working with Ukrainian Current Atrocities with Mira Erlich-Ginor (Tel-Aviv)

The Masculine Trajectory and the Development of Male Interiority with Michael Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles)

Report from Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society with Igor Romanov, Ph.D. (Kharkiv)

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