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About Eugenio Duarte

Eugenio Duarte, Ph.D. is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Miami.

NBN Episodes hosted by Eugenio:

Psychology November 16, 2020

Gender and Our Brains

How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds

Gina Rippon

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
There is a long history of brain research that seems to legitimize widely held beliefs about the men versus women. According to my guest, much of that research is founded on biases and misguided experiments, which raises the questions: Are there any meaningful neurological differences between men and women? And if so, what are they? To find out, you’ll want to listen to my interview with Dr. Gina Rippon, author …
Psychology October 29, 2020

It’s Not Always Depression

Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self

Hilary Jacobs Hendel

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest. Often thought of as presenting problems in their own right, it might make more sense to …
Psychoanalysis October 27, 2020

Bodies and Social Rhythms

Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity

Steven H. Knoblauch

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychotherapy tends to be thought of as a verbal enterprise, wherein participants speak and construct meaning through words. However, much goes on between patient and therapist at an embodied, nonverbal …
Medicine October 9, 2020

Treating Complex Trauma

Combined Theories and Methods

Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Relationship problems, struggles with substance abuse, poor memory, and difficulties with emotions are typical symptoms of complex trauma—yet many traumatized individuals have no idea their symptoms share a common cause …
Psychoanalysis August 27, 2020

Don’t Be a Dick

Change Yourself, Change Your World

Mark Borg, Jr.

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why. This is one of the central phenomena addressed by Mark Borg, Jr. in his new …
Psychoanalysis June 15, 2020

The Unconscious

Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications

J. Weinberger and V. Stoycheva

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
The concept of the unconscious has a complicated place in the history of psychology. Many areas of study ignored or outright denied it for a long time, while psychoanalysis claimed …
Critical Theory February 10, 2020

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Activists have been working to dismantle patriarchal structures since the feminist and civil rights movements of the last century, and yet we continue to struggle with patriarchy today. In their …
American Studies November 19, 2019

New York After 9/11

Susan Opotow

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the country have been widely discussed—but what about the impact on New York City, specifically? In their new anthology, New York After …
Psychology August 14, 2019

Relationship Sanity

Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Mark Borg, Grant Brenner, and Daniel Berry

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Relationships are hard, and it’s often because we defend ourselves against the very intimacy we seek by getting locked into problematic patterns of compulsive caretaking. Such was the topic of …
Anthropology July 4, 2019

Bowen Theory’s Secrets

Revealing the Hidden Life of Families

Michael E. Kerr

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen. He was among the first to observe families in a naturalistic …
American Studies June 26, 2019

One Nation, Two Realities

Dueling Facts in American Democracy

Morgan Marietta and David Barker

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
American society is deeply divided at this moment—not just on values and opinions but on basic perceptions of reality. In their latest book, One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in …
Language May 15, 2019

The Infinity of the Unsaid

Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal

Donnel Stern

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Donnel Stern has been a key figure in the advancement of interpersonal and relational psychoanalysis since his initial writings on unformulated experience in the 1980s, in which he offered a …