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About Christopher Russell
"Only when the analyst understands nothing can something change." - Emily OgdenChristopher Russell is a psychoanalyst working with individuals and groups. He is a member of the faculty at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies; a licensure qualifying institute in New York. CMPS is also the New York campus for the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. BGSP is the only accredited, independent graduate school of psychoanalysis in the country. Christopher is primarily interested in new books about Sandor Ferenczi and Hyman Spotnitz.
NBN Episodes hosted by Christopher:
January 26, 2026
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).…
January 21, 2026
Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy
Today I spoke with Juliane Maxwald abut her new book Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Taylor & Francis, 2025).…
January 20, 2026
The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning
Today I spoke with Anna Fishzon about her new book The Impossible Return - Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Routledge,…
October 31, 2025
Wired for Why
WIRED FOR WHY: How We Think, Feel and Make Meaning. (Self-Published 2025) spans eighteen chapters exploring everything from how we manage to stay aliv…
May 21, 2025
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust
Today I interviewed Jan Borowicz about Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders (Routledge, 2024). "The…
April 22, 2025
Make a Scene
Today I spoke with Mike Ganino about his new book Make a Scene, Storytelling, Stage Presence, and the Art of being Unforgettable in every Spotlight (A…
March 25, 2025
The Long Journey Out
Today I spoke with Ronald Okuaki Lieber about his new book, The Long Journey Out (Resource Publications, 2023) These poems are arranged in four secti…
March 12, 2025
Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression
Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific A…
February 17, 2025
Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link
Today I spoke to Dr. Carl Waitz about his new book Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective (Routledge, …
January 16, 2025
Our Time Is Up
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Roberta Satow about her new book Our Time Is Up (Ipbooks, 2024). In 1895 Freud noticed that his case hi…
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…
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…