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Psychoanalysis May 26, 2020

Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society

Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna

Hosted by Christopher Bandini
The areas of the Law and psychoanalysis overlap in interesting and compelling fashion in the new book, Psychoanalysis, Law, and Society (Routledge, 2019) edited by Adrienne Harris and Plinio Montagna …
Psychoanalysis October 28, 2019

Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process

Robert P. Drozek

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The subject of ethics in psychoanalysis has long been relegated to the sidelines of clinical theory. In his new book Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process with a forward by Peter …
Psychoanalysis June 7, 2019

Heart Melts Forward

The Collected Writings of Emmanuel Ghent

Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos

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Composer, philosopher, scientist, psychoanalyst-Emmanuel ("Manny") Ghent was all of these and more. In this comprehensive interview with the editors, Adrienne Harris and Victoria Demos of the new book Heart Melts …
Psychoanalysis November 7, 2018

On the Couch

A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud

Nathan Kravis

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Sometimes, a couch is a only a couch, but not in Dr. Nathan Kravis’s new book, On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud …
Psychoanalysis April 19, 2018

The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s-1990s

Rethinking Transference and Countertransference

Irwin Hirsch and Donnell Stern, eds.

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The history of psychoanalysis is full of twists, turns and also glaring omissions. In their new two-volume set, editors Irwin Hirsch and Donnell Stern attempt to set the record straight …
Psychoanalysis September 8, 2017

Micro-trauma

A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury

Margaret Crastnopol

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Little murders, unkind cutting back, uneasy intimacy and connoisseurship gone awry are just a few of the provocative relational concepts Dr. Margaret Crastnopol describes and explores in her new book …
Psychoanalysis August 1, 2017

Private Practices

Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism

Naoko Wake

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The influential yet controversial psychiatrist, Harry Stack Sullivan was pioneering in his treatment of schizophrenia however the way he lived privately did not always correspond to the theoretical ideas he …
Psychoanalysis December 9, 2016

The Interpersonal Tradition

The Origins of Psychoanalytic Subjectivity

Irwin Hirsch

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The Interpersonal School of psychoanalysis developed independent of the classical tradition in the United States early in the twentieth century, and was a harbinger to the relational thinking of the …
Psychoanalysis October 13, 2016

To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World

The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Gail Hornstein

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The life of the German-born, pioneering American psychoanalyst, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, is intriguing enough in itself, but in the biography, To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life …
Psychoanalysis June 30, 2016

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis

Understanding and Working with Trauma

Sheldon Itzkowitz and Elizabeth Howell, eds.

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The rediscovery of trauma in the analytic field coupled with the the development of the concept of dissociation is the focus of a new book edited by two preeminent clinicians …
Psychoanalysis May 4, 2016

The Embodied Analyst

From Freud and Reich to Relationality

Jon Sletvold

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Bodies, both the patient's and the analyst, has been a neglected area of investigation in psychoanalysis for many years, despite it's presence in Freud's early theories and clinical work. In …
Psychoanalysis December 18, 2015

Mended by the Muse

Creative Transformations of Trauma

Sophia Richman

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In a wide ranging and courageous interview that touched on the creative process, personal history, memoir and self-disclosure, the psychoanalyst and writer Sophia Richman explored the connections between trauma and …
Psychoanalysis October 20, 2015

The Possible Profession

The Analytic Process of Change

Theodore J. Jacobs

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In this interview Dr. Theodore Jacobs discusses his book The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change (Routledge, 2013) . Dr. Jacobs is a pioneer in the use of countertransference …
Psychoanalysis June 2, 2015

Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich

History, Memory, Tradition

Emily Kuriloff

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In her new book, Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition (Routledge, 2013), Emily Kuriloff details a dimension of psychoanalytic history that has never been so extensively documented …
Psychoanalysis January 28, 2015

Traumatic Narcissism

Relational Systems of Subjugation

Daniel Shaw

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Conventional psychoanalytic views of narcissism focus on familiar character traits: grandiosity, devaluation, entitlement and a lack of empathy. In his new book Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation (Routledge, 2013) …
Psychoanalysis October 21, 2014

Mended By the Muse

Creative Transformations of Trauma

Sophia Richman

Hosted by Christopher Bandini
In a wide ranging and courageous interview that touched on the creative process, personal history, memoir and self-disclosure, the psychoanalyst and writer Sophia Richman explored the connections between trauma and …