About Tracy Morgan

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

NBN Episodes hosted by Tracy:

Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber, "The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

June 3, 2023

The Queerness of Childhood

Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber
Hosted by Tracy Morgan
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In this interview, Anna Fishzon, co editor with Emma Lieber on The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (Palgrave M…

Vincenzo Bonaminio, "Playing at Work: Clinical Essays in a Contemporary Winnicottian Perspective on Technique" (Routledge, 2022)

January 11, 2023

Playing at Work

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 …

Jordan Osserman, "Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

August 15, 2022

Circumcision on the Couch

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…

Gillian Straker and Jacqui Winship, "The Talking Cure: Normal People, their Hidden Struggles and the Life-Changing Power of Therapy" (Macmillan, 2019)

October 12, 2021

The Talking Cure

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 vicissitu…

Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)

June 8, 2021

White Privilege

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 re…

Emma Lieber, "The Writing Cure" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

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 su…

M. Fakhry Davids, "Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference" (Red Globe, 2011)

March 16, 2021

Internal Racism

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…

Sheldon George, "Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity" (Baylor UP, 2016)

February 3, 2021

Trauma and Race

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 …

Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalysis and Politics" (Columbia UP, 2019)

May 22, 2020

Fear of Breakdown

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, alread…

Vanessa Sinclair and Manya Steinkoler, "On Psychoanalysis and Violence" (Routledge, 2018)

December 16, 2019

On Psychoanalysis and Violence

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 …

John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein" (Henry N. Abrams, 2017)

November 11, 2019

Sex Versus Survival

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…

Benjamin Fong, "Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism" (Columbia UP, 2016)

October 31, 2019

Death and Mastery

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 of…

Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)

August 15, 2019

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living

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: Addressi…

E. Danto and A. Steiner-Strauss, "Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the Best Possible School" (Routledge, 2018)

July 19, 2019

Freud/Tiffany

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 usu…

Ellen Pinsky, "Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Mortal Gifts" (Routledge, 2017)

April 19, 2019

Death and Fallibility in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

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: Mor…

Jacqueline Rose , "Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty" (FSG, 2018)

October 10, 2018

Mothers

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…

Aner Govrin, "Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge" (Routledge, 2016)

September 7, 2017

Conservative and Radical Perspectives on Psychoanalytic Knowledge

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…

Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)

March 19, 2017

Capitalism and Desire

Todd McGowan
Hosted by Tracy Morgan

Todd McGowan's Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly employs psychoanalytic thinking to …

Orna Ophir, "On the Borderland of Madness: Psychosis, Psychoanalysis, and Psychiatry in Postwar USA" (Routledge, 2015)

November 7, 2016

On the Borderland of Madness

Orna Ophir
Hosted by Tracy Morgan

When it comes to the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry in the United States, to paraphrase Luce Irigaray, one never stirs without the other. Wh…

Galit Atlas, "The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2015)

June 2, 2016

The Enigma of Desire

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 psychoanalyti…

Christopher Bollas, "When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia" (Yale UP, 2015)

December 21, 2015

When the Sun Bursts

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;…

Gillian Isaacs Russell, "Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy" (Karnac, 2015)

October 13, 2015

Screen Relations

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 …

Frank Summers, "The Psychoanalytic Vision" (Routledge, 2013)

April 13, 2015

The Psychoanalytic Vision

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 whol…

Elizabeth Lunbeck, "The Americanization of Narcissism" (Harvard UP, 2014)

August 21, 2014

The Americanization of Narcissism

Elizabeth Lunbeck
Hosted by Tracy Morgan

Elizabeth Lunbeck has made a major contribution to the historical study of psychoanalysis with the publication of The Americanization of Narcissism (H…