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About Christopher Russell
"If the heart could think it would stop beating." Fernando PessoaChristopher Russell, LP is a psychoanalyst in Chelsea, Manhattan.
NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
November 20, 2024
The Antagonist
Today I spoke with Emily Dinova about her new novel The Antagonist (Bruce Scivally, 2024). Dinova, a psychoanalytic candidate working towards a licen…
September 9, 2024
The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personalit…
July 8, 2024
Sexuality Beyond Consent
Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). My conversation with Dr. S…
March 4, 2024
Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons
Today I spoke with Dr. Louis Rothschild about his new book Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities (Karnac, 2024).…
December 27, 2023
Somatic Maternal Healing
Today we spoke with Dr. Helena Vissing about her new book Somatic Maternal Healing Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Hea…
November 25, 2023
The Analyst's Torment
Today I spoke with Dr. Dhwani Shah about his new book The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (Karnac Books, 2022). The…
October 15, 2023
Here I'm Alive
Today we have a group session (read: an hour and a half) with the authors Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michal Levin discussing their new book Here …
May 27, 2023
Misogyny in Psychoanalysis
Today I talked to Michaela Chamberlain, author of Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (Phoenix Publishing House, 2022) Chamberlain’s book is a product of “cum…
January 18, 2023
Exigent Psychoanalysis
In Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021), Dr. Gila Ashtor “strives to draw out the discipline’s conceptual und…
November 2, 2022
Unreasonable Hospitality
Today I talked to Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect (Optimism Press, 2022)…
January 25, 2022
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters
The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds (Routledge, 2020) investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – …
January 19, 2022
What Happens When the Analyst Dies
What Happens When the Analyst Dies: Unexpected Terminations in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019) explores the stories of patients who have experienced …
June 24, 2021
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan
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 a…
June 23, 2021
Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan
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 a…
March 16, 2021
Elizabeth Severn
Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017) chronicles the life and work of Elizabeth Severn, both as one of the most cont…
January 27, 2021
Bodydreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma
Winner the 2019 NAAP Gradiva Award and Co- Winner of International Association for Jungian Studies Awards Program for Best Books published in 2019, M…
December 28, 2020
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018) proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of p…
September 25, 2020
Hysteria
“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…
July 20, 2020
Working-through Collective Wounds
Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) formulates a theory of collective …
June 5, 2020
The Making of A Psychoanalyst
The eight stories in The Making of A Psychoanalyst: Studies in Emotional Education (Routledge, 2018) are composites of clinical material highlighting …
May 29, 2020
The Regulars' Table
From the Central Coast of California to Baden-Baden, Toronto, Siracusa, and Budapest, Christina Griffin's The Regulars’ Table: Conversations with Fere…
April 6, 2020
Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity
In his new book Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity: Contemporary Freudian Explorations of Trauma, Memory, and Clinical Process (Routledge, 2019…
December 18, 2019
I Should Have Been Music
Dr. Babette Becker’s memoir I Should Have Been Music (Page Publishing, 2018) recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals f…