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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 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …