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About Christopher Russell
"If the heart could think it would stop beating." - Fernando Pessoa (1930)
Christopher Russell is a Psychoanalyst in Chelsea, Manhattan.
NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
Psychoanalysis
March 16, 2021
Elizabeth Severn
The "Evil Genius" of Psychoanalysis
Arnold W. Rachman
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017) chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most controversial analysands in the history of psychoanalysis …
Psychoanalysis
February 16, 2021
The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots
The Emotional Development of the Clinician
Vic Sedlak
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalities inform but also limit their ability to recognize and …
Psychoanalysis
January 27, 2021
Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
An Embodied Therapeutic Approach
Marian Dunlea
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Winner the 2019 NAAP Gradiva Award and Co- Winner of International Association for Jungian Studies Awards Program for Best Books published in 2019, Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming in the Treatment of …
Psychoanalysis
December 28, 2020
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film
Reading the Symptom
Trevor C. Pederson
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018) proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic …
Literature
September 25, 2020
Hysteria
Jessica Gross
Hosted by Christopher Russell
“But creative writers are valuable allies and their evidence is to be prized highly for they are apt to know a whole host of things between heaven and earth of …
Latin American Studies
July 20, 2020
Working-through Collective Wounds
Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising
Raluca Soreanu
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) formulates a theory of collective trauma, drawing on the work of Sándor Ferenczi. Dr. Soreanu takes Ferenczi …
Psychoanalysis
June 5, 2020
The Making of A Psychoanalyst
Studies in Emotional Education
Claudia Luiz
Hosted by Christopher Russell
The eight stories in The Making of A Psychoanalyst: Studies in Emotional Education (Routledge, 2018) are composites of clinical material highlighting familiar emotional conflicts found in treatment. Dr. Claudia Luiz …
Psychoanalysis
May 29, 2020
The Regulars' Table
Conversations with Ferenczi
Christina Griffin
Hosted by Christopher Russell
From the Central Coast of California to Baden-Baden, Toronto, Siracusa, and Budapest, Christina Griffin's The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Ferenczi (International Psychoanalytic Books, 2018) is about deep enduring friendships; then …
Psychoanalysis
April 6, 2020
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity
Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process
Bruce E. Reis
Hosted by Christopher Russell
In his new book Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process (Routledge, 2019), Bruce E. Reis writes intimacy is “transformative prior to the delivery …
Biography
December 18, 2019
I Should Have Been Music
Babette Becker
Hosted by Christopher Russell
Dr. Babette Becker’s memoir I Should Have Been Music (Page Publishing, 2018) recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960. It was a …