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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 April 27, 2022

Deliberately Divided

Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart

Nancy L Segal

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
A lot can be learned from scientific twin studies about the relative contributions of nature versus nurture to human experience. However, when such studies do lasting harm to its participants …
Psychology November 24, 2021

Emotional Inheritance

A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

Galit Atlas

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Loss and trauma are ubiquitous, yet we are often unaware of their presence in our individual and family histories, much less how they affect us present-day. We carry them in …
Psychology September 1, 2021

Nobody’s Normal

How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

Roy Richard Grinker

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Stigma about mental illness makes life doubly hard for people suffering from mental or emotional distress. In addition to dealing with their conditions, they must also contend with social shame …
Psychology August 13, 2021

Your Turn

How to Be an Adult

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
"Adulting" has now become a verb, and it scares us. Yet it is also essential if we are to live our best, most authentic lives. So how do you do …
Psychology August 11, 2021

The AfterGrief

Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss

Hope Edelman

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Grief is a long-misunderstood experience that many people believe proceeds according to predictable steps ending in ‘closure.’ According to Hope Edelman, however, grief is a long-term process that can actually …
Psychology August 2, 2021

Surviving an Eating Disorder

Strategies for Family and Friends

Michele Siegel, Judith Brisman and Margot Weinshel

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
When someone you love appears to be struggling with an eating disorder, it is hard to know what to say or do. Families and friends need information and guidelines if …
Psychology July 22, 2021

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Jane Ward

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
If opposite-gender partnerships remain the societal ideal, then why are so many straight couples miserable? Author Jane Ward has been studying this question for some time and outlines her ideas …
Psychology July 21, 2021

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios

Race, Class, and the Unconscious

Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychoanalysis began as a politicized form of treatment for people from all walks of life. Yet in the United States, it has become divorced from these roots and transformed into …
Psychology February 9, 2021

Out of the Shadows

Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

Walt Odets

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
The progress that has been made by the gay rights movement can sometimes obscure the work that is still left to be done. In his new book, Out of the Shadows …
Psychology January 27, 2021

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing

David A. Treleaven

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Mindfulness meditation has become the mental health practice du jour, and rightfully so, given all of its benefits: greater presence, clarity and calm. But for people who have endured trauma …
Psychology December 30, 2020

In the Shadow of Freud's Couch

Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices

Mark Gerald

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Psychotherapy offices are typically thought of as existing in the background of treatment, but they are brought to the foreground in Mark Gerald’s new book In the Shadow of Freud’s Couch …
Psychology December 11, 2020

Rape

From Lucretia to #MeToo

Mithu Sanyal

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
My guest today, author Mithu Sanyal, describes the topic of rape as a ‘cultural sore spot,’ one that requires yet eludes wide conversation. Her latest book, Rape: From Lucretia to …
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 …
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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …
Psychology 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 …