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Psychoanalysis May 11, 2021

A People's History of Psychoanalysis

From Freud to Liberation Psychology

Daniel Jose Gaztambide

Hosted by J.J. Mull
In this episode, host J.J. Mull interviews Daniel José Gaztambide about his book, A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology (Lexington Books, 2021). The project traces a …

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Communications April 28, 2021

Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

Jack Black

Hosted by Lee Pierce
Jack Black, Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy (Routledge 2021). In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining …
Science, Technology, and Society April 5, 2021

Break on Through

Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Lucas Richert

Hosted by Chad Valasek
"Antipsychiatry," Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s. The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade …
Psychology April 5, 2021

Managing Microaggressions

Addressing Everyday Racism in Therapeutic Spaces

Monnica T. Williams

Hosted by Debbie Sorensen
Microaggressions have been identified as a common and troubling cause of low retention and poor psychotherapy outcomes for people of color. All therapists want and intend to be helpful to …
Psychoanalysis March 31, 2021

Freud and Said

Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis

Robert Beshara

Hosted by Vira Sachenko
Robert Beshara’s Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021) is a guide through the textual relationship between the work of Sigmund Freud and Edward Said. It is also a …
Psychoanalysis March 16, 2021

Internal Racism

A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference

M. Fakhry Davids

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
What makes racist feelings and ideas objectionable? In his book Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (Red Globe, 2011), M. Fakhry Davids, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society …
Psychoanalysis March 16, 2021

Elizabeth Severn

The "Evil Genius" of Psychoanalysis

Arnold W. Rachman

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017) chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis …
Psychoanalysis March 15, 2021

The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy

Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis

Willow Pearson and Helen Marlo

Hosted by Roy Barsness
W. Pearson and H. Marlo's The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy: Mysticism, Intersubjectivity, and Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2020) examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team …
Psychoanalysis March 9, 2021

How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist

Brett Kahr

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
Brett Kahr has done it again! He has given us a marvelous book, helpful, yet challenging, fun to read, yet digging deep. In How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist (Phoenix …
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 …
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 …