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Psychoanalysis October 20, 2021

Bodies and Social Rhythms

Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity

Steven Knoblauch

Hosted by Roy Barsness
Steven Knoblauch's Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity (Routledge, 2020) traces the development of an unfolding challenge for psychoanalytic attention, which augments contemporary theoretical lenses focusing …

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Interviews with psychoanalysts about their new books.

Psychoanalysis October 14, 2021

The Distance Cure

A History of Teletherapy

Hannah Zeavin

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews author Hannah Zeavin about her new book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press, 2021). Among Zeavin’s central interventions in the book …
Psychoanalysis October 13, 2021

Trauma, Guilt and Reparation

The Path from Impasse to Development

Heinz Weiss

Hosted by Philip Lance
Trauma, Guilt and Reparation: The Path from Impasse to Development (Routledge, 2019) identifies the emotional barriers faced by people who have experienced severe trauma, as well as the emergence of …
Psychoanalysis October 12, 2021

The Talking Cure

Normal People, their Hidden Struggles and the Life-Changing Power of Therapy

Gillian Straker and Jacqui Winship

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Gillian Straker’s name has long been on my radar, particularly for the ways in which she has used psychoanalytic thought to contend with the vicissitudes of apartheid and its aftermath …
Psychoanalysis October 8, 2021

Lacan and Race

Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory

Sheldon George and Derek Hook

Hosted by Jordan Osserman
Derek Hook and Sheldon George's Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2021) is a path-breaking edited volume that draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces …
Science September 24, 2021

DSM

A History of Psychiatry's Bible

Allan V. Horwitz

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium …
Psychology September 8, 2021

Towards an Ecopsychotherapy

Mary-Jayne Rust

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy (Confer Books, 2020) provides an overview of ecopsychology and introduces the newly emerging field of ecopsychotherapy, including insightful case examples for practitioners. However, ecopsychotherapy is not simply …
Psychology September 1, 2021

Nobody’s Normal

How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with social shame …
Psychoanalysis August 9, 2021

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (Phoenix Publishing House, 2021) by Susan and Marcus Evans is an uncomfortable book on the politically and clinically …
Psychoanalysis July 26, 2021

The Desire of Psychoanalysis

Exercises in Lacanian Thinking

Gabriel Tupinambá

Hosted by Jordan Osserman
What does psychoanalysis want? In The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Northwestern UP, 2021), analyst and academic Gabriel Tupinambá takes the Lacanian world to task for failing to properly …
Film July 23, 2021

Beyond Bias

Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria

Scott Krzych

Hosted by Joel Tscherne
Scott Krzych's book Beyond Bias: Conservative Media, Documentary Form, and the Politics of Hysteria (Oxford University Press, 2021) offers the first scholarly study of contemporary right-wing documentary film and video. Drawing from …
Psychology July 21, 2021

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios

Race, Class, and the Unconscious

Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychoanalysis began as a politicized form of treatment for people from all walks of life. Yet in the United States, it has become divorced from these roots and transformed into …
Psychoanalysis July 13, 2021

The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Steven Kuchuck

Hosted by Roy Barsness
The relational revolution led to what is arguably the most radical revision of our understanding of how to effect healing and change in the mind since Freud’s ground-breaking work more …
Folklore July 13, 2021

Sacred Disobedience

A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil

Sharon L. Coggan

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Pan plays a central role in European mythology, originating as a figure who represented all that was impossible to tame in the world, something anyone who has ever worked with …
Medicine June 30, 2021

Trans Medicine

The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

stef m. shuster

Hosted by Claire Clark
A rich examination of the history of trans medicine and current day practice Surfacing in the mid-twentieth century, yet shrouded in social stigma, transgender medicine is now a rapidly growing …
Psychoanalysis June 28, 2021

Disalienation

Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France

Camille Robcis

Hosted by J. J. Mull
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France (University of Chicago Press, 2021) …
Psychoanalysis June 24, 2021

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan

On and Off the Couch (Part 2)

Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales

Hosted by Christopher Russell
This is part two of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch (Routledge …
Psychoanalysis June 23, 2021

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan

On and Off the Couch (Part 1)

Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales

Hosted by Christopher Russell
This is part one of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch  (Routledge, 2020) Taking …
Law June 9, 2021

Men in White Coats

Treatment Under Coercion

George Szmukler

Hosted by Jane Richards
The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of their effectiveness, rather, these laws cling to outdated …
Psychoanalysis June 8, 2021

White Privilege

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Neil Altman

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book that reads as both addendum and antidote to some of …