About Isak de Vries

psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, NY.

Isak de Vries is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, NY.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Isak:

Darren Haber, "Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles Without a Center" (Routledge, 2022)

June 15, 2026

Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis

Darren Haber
Hosted by Isak de Vries

Addiction, Accommodation, and Vulnerability in Psychoanalysis: Circles Without a Center (Routledge, 2022) explores the compulsions and trauma that und…

Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)

December 8, 2021

Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter

Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell
Hosted by Isak de Vries

From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and artist…

Danielle Knafo, "The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis" (Confer Books, 2020)

August 17, 2020

The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Danielle Knafo and Rocco Lo Bosco
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The sexual landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades, with the meaning of gender and sexuality now being parsed within the realms of …

D. Gilhooley and F. Toich, "Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind" (Routledge, 2019)

February 27, 2020

Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind

Dan Gilhooley and Frank Toich
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More than anything else, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind: I Woke Up Dead (Routledge, 2020) bears witness …