Discussions On Psychoanalysis
Episodes
#57 On Shame
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts discuss the question of shame. [0:24] Intro [3:28] Different kind of shame [05:47] Guilt and shame [06:34]...
#56 On Institutions' Internal Tensions Part 2
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts conclude their commentary of the article "The intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutions" by K...
#55 On Institutions' Internal Tensions
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts continue their discussion based on the article "The Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes"...
# 54 On Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts based their discussion on a 1994 article written by Kenneth Eisold, "The Intolerance of Diversity in Psycho...
#53 On Choosing a Psychoanalytic Institute & a Supervisor
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts discuss different ways to choose a psychoanalytic institute and a supervisor. [0:25] Intro [3:44] How we c...
#52 On Choosing an Analysant
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing how analysts choose their analysants. [2:52] To choose or not your analyst? [8:55] What is...
#51 On Choosing an Analyst
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts have a discussion on how to choose an analyst: where, when, how, etc. [00:27] Intro [03:50] Conflict of i...
#50 On Using Psychoanalysis in an Institution
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listener, In this episode, your hosts continue to dwell into Grégoire's past at l'Ecole Expérimentale de Bonneuil. The main question will be: h...
#49 On Working with Children with Psychosis
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, we discuss Grégoire's experience working with children and teenagers with psychosis, autism and severe borderline fe...
#48 On How We Try To Justify Our Presence
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing different aspects of how we end up trying to justify our presence as clinicians. [0:22] In...
#47 On How to Keep the Psychoanalyst Alive
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing what could and should be done to keep the psychoanalysts alive, not just physically, but a...
#46 On How to keep Psychoanalysis alive
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts have a discussion on how to keep psychoanalysis alive. [04:06] Psychoanalysis in literature [05:10] Defin...
#45 On What is and is not Psychoanalysis
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, your hosts are trying to get a better sense of what is and what is not psychoanalysis. [00:24] Intro [03:52] What are we keeping ali...
#44 On Death Anxiety and our Shared Reality
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your host and our special guest Tenille Blair Neff conclude their discussion on death anxiety. Little note: for a su...
#43 On Death Anxiety - The Influence of Cultures
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts and Tenille Blair-Neff continue to discuss the subject of death anxiety with a focus on how cultures will ...
#42 On Death Anxiety - The symbolic & the Reality
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, We welcome again Tenille Blair-Neff for a series of three episodes on Death Anxiety. In this first episode, we will try to address how...
#41 On What We Decide To Question
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts try to understand what we decide to question; what are our blind spots and how to address them in our clin...
#40 On How We Met Psychoanalysis
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts talk about how they met psychoanalysis and what they appreciated about it. Thank you for listening! [0:22]...
#39 On How we Interact
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode we try talk about how impossible it is to interact with our patients without closing doors, how it can be beneficial b...
#38 On Questioning our Patients
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, we try to question how we interact with our patients, and more specifically how aggression can be at times expressed ...
#37 On Questioning Our Place
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, This month we are trying to question our place as analysts in a therapy: how do we know what we know is correct? Where do we speak fro...
#36 On Questioning Theories
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing the necessity and difficulties to question theories in our daily practice. Thank you for li...
#35 On Neutrality & External Discourses
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts question how psychoanalysis interacts with societies, and how psychoanalysis can help us get a better sense...
#34 On Neutrality & Analysts' beliefs
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, your hosts continue their discussion on different aspects of neutrality in psychoanalysis. After a few general comments, we will addr...
#33 On Neutrality & Sensitive topics
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts engage in a discussion on how to think about a required neutrality and the inevitable opinions a psychoana...
#32 On Building One's Own Practice - Concrete expenses
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this 3rd and, most likely, last episode on how to build one's own practice, we talk about the very concrete expenses one has to go ...
#31 On Climate Change with Susan Kassouf - Traumatized sensibility and denial
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listener, In this episode we continue our discussion on climate change with Susan Kassouf. We talk about traumatized sensibility, a concept impor...
#30 On Climate Change With Susan Kassouf Part 01
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Dr. Susan Kasouf – a licensed psychoanalyst in New York – joins Grégoire Pierre and Edgard ...
#29 On Building One's Own Practice With Tenille Blair Neff - Network issues
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we continue our discussion on how to build one's own practice. Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonps...
#28 On Building One's Own Practice With Tenille Blair Neff - Setting the frame
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Discussions On Psychoanalysis, your hosts welcome Tenille Blair Neff, practicing psychoanalyst in Missouri and former Member-In-Tra...
#27 On Patients' & Analysts' Expectations Part 02
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcasts, your hosts continue their (unexpected) discussion on patients' and analysts' expectations. We are going to wonder if we are fetishis...
#26 On Patients' & Analysts' expectations Part 01
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in an frank and open conversation a...
#25 On The Social with Catherine Silver Part 02
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Second part of our interview with Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies and practices as a "social relational psychoanalyst" in ...
#24 On The Social With Catherine Silver part 01
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen interview Dr. Catherine Silver, ...
#23 On Modernity & Post Modernity
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Edgard Fransico Danielsen and Grégoire Pierre discuss some aspects of how modernity and post modernity affect our work as psychoanalysts....
#22 On the "end" of the pandemic
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On the 22nd installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre & Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in conversation about the covid vaccine...
#21 On Including the Social Part 3
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a new episode of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, engage in their last discussion of the...
#20 On Including the Social Part 2
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We invite you to continue the discussion on how the social is part of a psychoanalytic practice. This time, we will address how psychoanalysts bring w...
# 19 On Including the Social Part 1
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of a series of podcasts in which your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, will explore how to integrate the soci...
#18 On Socialization in Analysis
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, your hosts will discuss social aspects of the relationship between patients and psychoanalyst. We will address the questions of socia...
#17 On Race and Racism With Lee Jenkins Part 2
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Second part of the interview with Lee Jenkins on race and racism from a psychoanalytic perspective. Share with us your comments or questions directly...
#16 On Race and Racism With Lee Jenkins Part 1
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre interviews Dr. Lee Jenkins, Training Analyst and Supervisor at the Nation...
#15 On Race & Racism in a Psychoanalysis
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Four psychoanalysts enter a bar …” or so would go a variation of the jocular trope, except that this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalys...
#14 Follow Up #5 Questions & Covid
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, answer some questions from the audi...
#13 On Beginnings & Ends of Therapy Part 4
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about be...
#12 On Beginnings & Ends of Therapy Part 3
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about be...
#11 On Beginnings & Ends of Therapy Part 2
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about th...
#10 On Covid 19 and Other Traumatic Events
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Grégoire & Edgard discuss how the spread of the virus Covid 19 is impacting their work, how they tried to adapt and the challenges th...
#9 Follow Up Podcast #4
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this follow up, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen share more about what they mean when they say "patients don't get cured." In addition, the...
#8 On Beginnings & Ends of Therapy Part 1
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, engage in conversation about the beginnings...
#7 Follow Up Podcast #3
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this month’s installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, we respond to the audience comments to our prior podcasts.
#6 On Japanese Comics As Support for Teenagehood Part 02
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen continue to explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese mang...
#5 On Japanese Comics As Support for Teenagehood Part 01
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese manga (comic) th...
#4 On Forgiveness and Judgment Follow Up
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Listeners, In this month’s episode, we respond to the audience comments, expanding the concept of “judgment” and its implications for the t...
#3 On Forgiveness in Religions and in Psychoanalysis
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis we engage in a conversation on forgiveness. We look at forgiveness from a religious perspective -...
#2 On the Fee Determination Process - Follow up
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this follow up podcast, your hosts try to answer your questions, and bring up some of your comments on the fee determination process. Share with u...
#1 On the Fee Determination Process
24 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion on ways to set up fees in different frames: In training, during the transition to private practice, and then in-network or out of network. ...