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About Christopher Russell

"If the heart could think it would stop beating." Fernando Pessoa

Christopher Russell, LP is a psychoanalyst in Chelsea, Manhattan. He is a member of the faculty and supervising analyst at The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Christopher is a board member with Restaurant After Hours a 501C3 charitable organization committed to mental health advocacy, resources, and support for the hospitality industry.

NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:

Psychoanalysis January 18, 2023

Exigent Psychoanalysis

The Interventions of Jean Laplanche

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Christopher Russell
In Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Gila Ashtor “strives to draw out the discipline’s conceptual underpinnings by putting them in conversation with Laplanche’s comprehensive innovations.” Ashtor …
Business, Management, and Marketing November 2, 2022

Unreasonable Hospitality

The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

Will Guidara

Hosted by Christopher Russell
Today I talked to Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect (Optimism Press, 2022). Will Guidara was twenty-six when he took the …
Psychoanalysis January 25, 2022

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters

Father Desire, Father Wounds

Susan E. Schwartz

Hosted by Christopher Russell
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds (Routledge, 2020) investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches …
Psychoanalysis January 19, 2022

What Happens When the Analyst Dies

Unexpected Terminations in Psychoanalysis

Claudia Heilbrunn

Hosted by Christopher Russell
What Happens When the Analyst Dies: Unexpected Terminations in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019) explores the stories of patients who have experienced the death of their analyst. The book prioritizes the voices …
Psychoanalysis June 24, 2021

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan

On and Off the Couch (Part 2)

Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales

Hosted by Christopher Russell
This is part two of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch (Routledge …
Psychoanalysis June 23, 2021

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan

On and Off the Couch (Part 1)

Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales

Hosted by Christopher Russell
This is part one of a two part interview with Carol Owens and Stephanie Swales about their book Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch  (Routledge, 2020) Taking …
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 …
Psychoanalysis 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 …
Psychoanalysis 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 …
Psychoanalysis 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 …