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Psychoanalysis
Interviews with psychoanalysts about their new books.
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
October 6, 2024
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressi…
October 5, 2024
Being Ill
A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and fami…
October 2, 2024
In the Freud Closet
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and sup…
September 9, 2024
The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalit…
September 8, 2024
From Skepticism to Competence
From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatrist…
September 3, 2024
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts Sp…
August 25, 2024
Beyond Psychotherapy
In Beyond Psychotherapy: On Becoming a (Radical) Psychoanalyst (Routledge, 2019), Barnaby Barratt illuminates a new perspective on the radicality of g…
August 20, 2024
At War with the Obvious
What does Donald Moss have against common sense, Captain Obvious, sincerity, and everything duh!? At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psyc…
August 17, 2024
The Indian Jungle
In this podcast, Ashis Roy (Psychoanalyst (IPA) and author of the recently published book Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Mu…
August 16, 2024
How Children Grieve
An award-winning childhood grief expert shares clinically-informed advice for supporting kids and teens through difficult times--from family deaths an…
August 13, 2024
Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field
Today I talked to Dianne Elise about her book Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field (Routledge, 2019). …
August 7, 2024
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host discu…
July 8, 2024
Sexuality Beyond Consent
Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). My conversation with Dr. S…
July 1, 2024
On Giving Up
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up …
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 24, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings in the …
June 22, 2024
Infinite Greed
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible inter…
June 16, 2024
Madman in the White House?
Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks with…
June 8, 2024
Patriarchy and Its Discontents
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of feminis…