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Tracy D. Morgan: Psychoanalyst, LCSW-R, M.Phil., Editor, New Books in Psychoanalysis.

NBN Episodes hosted by Tracy:

Psychoanalysis January 11, 2023

Playing at Work

Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique

Vincenzo Bonaminio

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Vincenzo Bonaminio, the Italian psychoanalyst and ambassador to the Winnicottian tradition offers us a clinical feast in his new publication, Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on …
Psychoanalysis August 15, 2022

Circumcision on the Couch

The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery

Jordan Osserman

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
It is not terribly controversial to say that castration fear is one of the key conceptual engines driving the psychoanalytic project overall. Whether one thinks of it manifesting as a …
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 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 …
Psychoanalysis March 31, 2021

The Writing Cure

Emma Lieber

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In the hills north of Rome about a month ago I met a woman, a writer, so blown away by her Dottoressa, her psychoanalyst, that she announced to the surprise …
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 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 May 22, 2020

Fear of Breakdown

Psychoanalysis and Politics

Noëlle McAfee

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened. Taking her cue from …
Psychoanalysis December 16, 2019

On Psychoanalysis and Violence

Contemporary Lacanian Perspectives

Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Gun violence must be what drive defusion looks like; with every shot fired, with every life stilled by rounds of ammo, we are summoned to address the acute darkness of …
Psychoanalysis November 11, 2019

Sex Versus Survival

The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein

John Launer

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
John Launer's Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein (Overlook Duckworth Press, 2014) manages to supplant (and given the power of the visual image, this is no …
Psychoanalysis October 31, 2019

Death and Mastery

Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism

Benjamin Fong

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Benjamin Fong’s Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia University Press, 2016) revitalizes two oft’ maligned psychoanalytic concepts, the death drive and the drive …
Psychoanalysis August 15, 2019

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living

Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical Practice

Sandra Buechler

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressing Life's Challenges in Clinical Practice (Routledge, 2019), which continues …
Psychoanalysis July 19, 2019

Freud/Tiffany

Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Best Possible School

Elizabeth Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
When we imagine Anna Freud, how does she appear to us? I have a snapshot image in my mind of a woman, almost nondescript, decidedly meek, standing usually near her …
Psychoanalysis April 19, 2019

Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

Mortal Gifts

Ellen Pinsky

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
If I could vote for my favorite new psychoanalytic book of the 21st century, Ellen Pinsky's Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts (Routledge, 2017) might be it …
Psychoanalysis October 10, 2018

Mothers

An Essay on Love and Cruelty

Jacqueline Rose

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
I left the kitchen radio on while reading Jacqueline Rose's Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) in preparation for this interview. It was June …
Psychoanalysis September 7, 2017

Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge

The Fascinated and the Disenchanted

Aner Govrin

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
This is an interview for the pessimists among us: Worried that your career as an analyst is over? That CBT is about to enact world domination over all things psychological …
Psychoanalysis March 19, 2017

Capitalism and Desire

The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

Todd McGowan

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Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to unpack the lure of capitalism. He argues that we are …
Psychoanalysis November 7, 2016

On the Borderland of Madness

Psychosis, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry in Postwar USA

Orna Ophir

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When it comes to the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the United States, to paraphrase Luce Irigaray, one never stirs without the other. While Freud sent Theodore Reik across …
Psychoanalysis June 2, 2016

The Enigma of Desire

Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis

Galit Atlas

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
This interview is really a conversation between two friends, peers, and colleagues--two women who were pleased to find each other in the psychoanalytic world who keep track of each others' …
Psychoanalysis December 21, 2015

When the Sun Bursts

The Enigma of Schizophrenia

Christopher Bollas

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In his second visit with New Books in Psychoanalysis, Christopher Bollas elucidates his thinking about schizophrenia. But he also does more than that; because his beginnings as a clinician are …
Psychoanalysis October 13, 2015

Screen Relations

The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

Gillian Isaacs Russell

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
At New Books in Psychoanalysis, interviews are conducted using Skype. As the program is audio rather than video based, it never occurred to me to use the camera on my …
Psychoanalysis April 13, 2015

The Psychoanalytic Vision

The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process

Frank Summers

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
In The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process (Routledge, 2013), Frank Summers has written a wholly original work of theory, technique and cultural critique. Privileging terms …
Psychoanalysis August 21, 2014

The Americanization of Narcissism

Elizabeth Lunbeck

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Elizabeth Lunbeck has made a major contribution to the historical study of psychoanalysis with the publication of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard University Press, 2014). Exploring the concept of narcissism …
Psychoanalysis July 28, 2014

Becoming Freud

The Making of a Psychoanalyst

Adam Phillips

Hosted by Tracy Morgan
For those who are savvy about all things psychoanalytic, be they analysts, analysands, or fellow travelers, the existence, presence, work, writing, and imprimatur of Adam Phillips is given long, as …