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Psychoanalysis February 17, 2021

The Autistic Subject

On the Threshold of Language

Leon S. Brenner

Hosted by Jordan Osserman
Leon Brenner's The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) makes a forceful case for the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the understanding and treatment of autism …

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Psychoanalysis February 16, 2021

The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots

The Emotional Development of the Clinician

Vic Sedlak

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalities inform but also limit their ability to recognize and …
Medicine February 12, 2021

Psychoanalysis in Medicine

Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary Medical Care

Paul Ian Steinberg

Hosted by Alec Kacew
In today’s program, Dr. Paul Steinberg, a psychiatrist and clinical professor at the University of British Columbia, discusses his recently released book Psychoanalysis in Medicine: Applying Psychoanalytic Thought to Contemporary …
Psychoanalysis February 3, 2021

Trauma and Race

A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity

Sheldon George

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In his book, Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity (Baylor UP, 2016), Sheldon George treats an old idea--that African Americans must transform their relationship to …
Psychoanalysis January 27, 2021

Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma

An Embodied Therapeutic Approach

Marian Dunlea

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Winner the 2019 NAAP Gradiva Award and Co- Winner of International Association for Jungian Studies Awards Program for Best Books published in 2019, Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming in the Treatment of …
Psychoanalysis January 20, 2021

Memory's Eyes

A New York Oedipus Novel

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau

Hosted by Philip Lance
Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau's Memory’s Eyes is a contemporary New York Oedipus novel. It is written for readers who enjoy playing with concepts and storylines, here namely the classical Oedipus myth, Sophocles’ three …
Politics January 11, 2021

I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics

How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

Jeanne Safer

Hosted by Ian Drake
We’ve all been there – the family dinners turned full-fledged political debates, the awkward chat in the kitchen at work, the difficulty of discussing politics on a first date or …
Psychoanalysis January 7, 2021

Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis

A Guide to Practice, Study and Research

Roy E. Barsness

Hosted by Philip Lance
Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research (Routledge, 2018) provides a concise and clearly presented handbook for graduate students, experienced clinicians, supervisors, and professors, presenting …
Science, Technology, and Society January 5, 2021

The Empire of Depression

A New History

Jonathan Sadowsky

Hosted by Chad Valasek
When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies …
Psychoanalysis December 31, 2020

The Theory and Practice of Psychoanalytic Therapy

Listening for the Subtext

Siri Erika Gullestad and Bjørn Killingmo

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
“She is seated in her chair, quietly anticipative. She is in no hurry. There is nothing that has to be achieved. She does not charge the situation with her temper …
Psychology December 30, 2020

In the Shadow of Freud's Couch

Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices

Mark Gerald

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychotherapy offices are typically thought of as existing in the background of treatment, but they are brought to the foreground in Mark Gerald’s new book In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch …
Psychoanalysis December 28, 2020

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film

Reading the Symptom

Trevor C. Pederson

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018) proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic …
Psychoanalysis December 18, 2020

Toward a Social Psychoanalysis

Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes

Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis

Hosted by J.J. Mull
In this episode, J.J. Mull interviews Lynne Layton and Marianna Leavy-Sperounis, author and editor respectively of Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes, published in 2020 by …
Philosophy December 10, 2020

Causation in Psychology

John Campbell

Hosted by Carrie Figdor
Our practices of holding people morally and legally responsible for what they do rests on causal relationships between our mental states and our actions – a desire for revenge or …
Psychoanalysis December 10, 2020

Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families

Jack Drescher

Hosted by Philip Lance
In this episode, Philip Lance interviews Jack Drescher, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is an expert in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. The interview focuses on a …
Psychoanalysis December 7, 2020

Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind

A psychoanalytic method and theory

Fred Busch

Hosted by Philip Lance
Bringing a fresh contemporary Freudian view to a number of current issues in psychoanalysis, this book is about a psychoanalytic method that has been evolved by Fred Busch over the …
Psychoanalysis November 25, 2020

Freud

The Making of an Illusion

Frederick Crews

Hosted by Cassandra Seltman
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies on Hysteria, the good doctor from Vienna …
Medicine November 23, 2020

The Trusted Doctor

Medical Ethics and Professionalism

Rosamond Rhodes

Hosted by Claire Clark
Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979. Rosamond Rhodes challenges this dominant view by presenting …
Psychology November 10, 2020

To Heal a Wounded Heart

The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action

Pilar Jennings

Hosted by Yakir Englander
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking. Challenged by the limitations …
Psychoanalysis October 27, 2020

Bodies and Social Rhythms

Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity

Steven H. Knoblauch

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychotherapy tends to be thought of as a verbal enterprise, wherein participants speak and construct meaning through words. However, much goes on between patient and therapist at an embodied, nonverbal …