Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

How We Care for Ourselves (and each other) with Stephen Bernstein, MD, Melvin Bornstein, MD, Mark Moore, PhD, Jonathan Palmer, MD, Harvey Schwartz, MD, Peggy Warren, MD

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"We are a group of analysts working in the greater context of the analytic world, but as a group, we have a profound analytic group process that's evo...

Mothers and Their Little Girls with Ilene Lefcourt (New York)

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"In addition to the easy convenience of bathing two children together, or three children together, there are other motivations of bathing them togethe...

A Memoir of Analysis, Poetry and Mortality with Alice Jones, MD (Berkeley, California)

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"All my writing before this has been poetry, and over the years in my books of poems I found the lines kept getting longer. I think the move towards p...

A Candidate Engages Patients Who are 'Difficult to Reach' with Pamela Polizzi, LCSW (New York)

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"This came from an experience with a patient. It was early in my analytic training, and I was working with a supervisor who I really admired, and work...

An Analyst's 'Couple State of Mind' with Mary Morgan, (London)

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"[A couple state of mind] is the capacity to be subjectively involved with both individuals, but then importantly, to be able to step back, find a thi...

#197: When the Analytic Frame 'Groans' with Allannah Furlong, PhD (Montreal)

08 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"To come back to this idea of 'groaning' - I really like it because I think it's a good description of the work we do, but particularly because it ref...

The Syntax of Trauma: Parasitic Language, Metaphor and Metonymy with Dana Amir, PhD (Haifa, Israel)

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"A saturated state is a state in which the conceptual or emotional object has absolute value, it is already stacked or closed to new meanings and ther...

The Unique Characteristics of Supportive Therapy with Rodrigo Sanchez Escandon (Leeds, England)

11 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"This patient taught me a lot. The context was that I just finished my second training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and I felt I needed to prove...

Teaching About the Dynamic Mind: Then and Now with Jonathan Shedler, PhD (San Francisco)

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"We bring our patterns with us wherever we go, into every relationship, and we necessarily and inevitably bring them into the therapy relationship or ...

On Transience and the Cycle of Time: Freud and Ecclesiastes with Paul Marcus, PhD (Great Neck, New York)

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The similarity between Freud and Kohelet [Ecclesiastes] is that both of them believe that there's no overarching totalistic system that  integrates ...

A Memoir of Transformation: a patient examines two analyses at two stages of life with Joan Peters, PhD (Ojai, California)

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"With Kristi [second analyst], it was much, much deeper. This whole dependent and infantile part of me was coming out. This is psychoanalytic language...

Psychotherapeutic Aphorisms: Reflections from a Lifetime of Listening with David Joseph, MD (Washington DC)

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Some time ago, I realized that there was such a thing for me as experiencing my patients as being friends, but they were psychoanalytic friends. It w...

An Analyst's Reflections on Her Treatments and Her Life with Beverly Kolsky, MSW (Tupper Lake, New York)

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"This really is the full motivation for my having written the memoir. I want people to know what the process is like; not only what the process is lik...

When We Feel Provoked by the Politics of Our Patients with Heribert Blass, Dr. Med. (MD) (Dusseldorf, Germany)

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I think that the comparison [between political and erotic passions]  is related to the danger of transgressing boundaries from the side of the analy...

Analysts' Reflections on Their Parenting with Andy Cohen (Johannesburg)

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I was quite protective of the parent reader while I was editing this. I feel that so many of the books out there on the shelf have a real kind of fin...

From Reacting to Reflecting: "How Psychoanalysis Made Us Better Surgeons" with Mauro Vasella, MD and Flavio Vasella, MD, PhD (Zurich)

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I have had quite some reactions to the article [on their psychoanalyses]. I was also telling Mauro and my colleagues that out of quite a number of ar...

'Why is This Happening in My Body'?: the meeting of/between patients' imaginings and analysts' theories with Sharone Bergner, PhD (New York)

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I really think that the purpose is to make space for the unknown, uncertainty, and for our kind of humility in the face of the complexity of our belo...

Affairs: Exploring the Dynamic Mind with non-Clinical Readers with Juliet Rosenfeld(London)

29 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The subject of affairs, I think it's of interest to everybody. We have all had an Oedipal experience - we've all been babies who have at some point r...

Affects, Curiosity, and Corporal Punishment with Paul Holinger, MD, MPH (Chicago)

15 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Now's the time to tell that wonderful story of the little boy. He was about two or three years old, and he went in the icebox to get some milk, and h...

The 'Necessary Foreignness' of Psychoanalysis with Mariano Horenstein, PhD (Cordoba, Argentina)

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"In the analysis, the place where you face the experience of otherness, of foreignness, of the unconscious that goes through you, it doesn't appear as...

Care of a Former Analysand with Dementia with Maxine Anderson, MD (Seattle, Washington)

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I think that my analytic awareness of denial and projection and the concreteness of psychic reality when executive function wanes, that I could help ...

Before 'Ghosts' become 'Ancestors' with Shalini Masih, PhD (Worcestershire, UK)

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"All of this together shaped how I began to think about mind, not as something to be mastered, but as a landscape of the unspoken whether it was ghost...

Candidates' Reflections on their Psychoanalytic Training with Himanshu Agrawal, MD (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The theme that I found with IPSO [International Psychoanalytical Studies Organization] was that there was a common theme [in psychoanalytic training]...

Reflections on Our Changing Field with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna)

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"When we reconstruct [in a patient] a possible lacking object or role or function, we  see that if the analyst himself has been able and the patient ...

Discovering the Process of One's Mind with Fred Busch, PhD (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The original papers that were written about the analyst's unconscious being attuned to the patient's unconscious  by Hyman and Racker, in both cases...

Religion, 'Allegorical Objects' and Levinas with David Black, PhD (London)

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The idea of analytic neutrality, which was more or less a cliche truth when I was training back in the 1980s, is clearly getting at something very im...

Childhood Memories: Their Impact on Mothers and Their 0–3-year-old Children with Ilene Lefcourt (New York)

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"There are very specific fears that people have that are specifically related to their own childhood, and I'd like to give an example. A mom with twin...

Forbidden Intimacy: Marrying the 'Other' with Ashis Roy, PhD (Kolkata, India)

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"The amount of guilt and the sense of alienation that people feel when they fall in love with someone who is 'outside', and the struggle that they hav...

The Making of the Documentary: Outsider. Freud with Yair Qedar (Tel Aviv)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I belong to the race that in the Middle Ages was blamed for all the plagues and such experiences have a sobering effect, and they do not arouse the t...

A Fourth Pillar: Unlocking the Power of Case Writing in Analytic Training with Stephen B. Bernstein, MD (Brookline, Mass.)

12 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"I've had the experience of having some wonderful supervisees, many of whom have done quite fine work and where it has not been an issue of any kind o...

The Unspoken: Analyst's 'Delinquencies', Post-Treatment Contact and Aging with Joyce Slochower, PhD (New York)

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I feel so strongly about this [collective commemorative ritual]. I think that early psychoanalytic writing overemphasized the value of separation-ind...

Poetry of the Mind and the Process of Mourning with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts)

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"What Freud may have missed here is that the investment in the lost object is a much more reconstructive and integrative process. It's one where we re...

"Before Painting the Bird, You Must Become the Bird" with Jonathan Palmer, MD (Newton, Mass.)

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"A number of art schools in the early 60s said: "Clearly, it is the relationship of the painter to the medium that is the essence of painting - the pa...

Trauma and Survival: Eddy de Wind and Viktor Frankl with Dan Stone, PhD (London)

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The Holocaust seems to me to be the paradigmatic case of the acting out of unconscious fears, fantasies and projections onto another group that has e...

Psychoanalysis and the Working Through of a Vineyard's Slave History with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town)

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The historian [of the vineyard] gave us regular feedback on what she was finding, and she also brought in oral historians to take our own life histor...

Chaos and Transformation in Psychoanalysis: 'the Bet on Freedom' with Gabriela Goldstein, Ph.D. (Buenos Aires)

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I think it is very interesting to open a debate and talk about this impact of the culture, this epoch, in the subjectivity and never losing the inter...

A Sociologist/Psychoanalyst Writes a Novel/Memoir with Roberta Satow, PhD (Washington, CT)

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I was very interested in the unspoken thoughts and feelings of the patient because I think one of the things about free association is that in the be...

An Analyst's Journey with Cancer with Jhuma Basak, PhD (Calcutta)

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There was a lot of dilemma, and I wasn't able to definitely deal with the sudden knowledge of my cancer and to be able to impart that information in ...

Transformation of Dreams in Analysis: the Research Findings with Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Prof. Dr. Phil. (Frankfurt)

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"In my own two analyses, I had observed such transformations for me in a very impressive way. I started my own analysis after the traumatic death of m...

Secrets Kept and Secrets Told: the Analyst's Responsibility with Barbara Stimmel, PhD (New York)

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I don't know what to do about this because we do have to use clinical material. It's the best tried and true method in which to inculcate analytic th...

The Adventure of Immersive Analytic Training with Dr. Eike Hinze (Berlin)

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"During the whole course of your [psychoanalytic] training, you are laying on the couch and have your personal analysis and beforehand you don't know ...

Adjunctive Psychedelic Medicines during Dynamic Psychotherapy with Charis Cladouhos, MD (Boston)

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I would love for the psychoanalytic world to re-embrace some of these adjunctive treatments that get to non-ordinary states of consciousness in order...

The Dying Patient in Treatment with Mark Moore, PhD (Philadelphia) and Peggy Warren, MD (Boston)

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"What is it like to be a clinician with a patient who either comes because they're going to be dying or it happens in the treatment -  what is it lik...

Bystanding as Perversion: "We need to forget about what we actually did not even see here." with Jan Borowicz, PhD (Warsaw)

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"From such accounts [of Polish atrocities] we can see how incredibly emotional and how incredibly pleasurable it could be on the social level, not onl...

An Analyst's Hindu-Indian Imagination with Sudhir Kakar (Goa, India)

05 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

My conversation with Sudhir Kakar took place five weeks before his untimely death on April 22nd.  "Freud obviously is very brave and courageous to ac...

'Does it Still Taste like Psychoanalysis'? - University Affiliation in Finland with Jan Johansson (Helsinki)

21 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Psychoanalysis landed in Finland in the 50s; before the Second World War there were one or two persons familiar with psychoanalysis. In the 50s, psyc...

The Presence of 'Companioning' in Psychoanalysis with Robert Grossmark, PhD (New York)

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"My interest is to rather than continue with the psychoanalytic tilt which has tended to try to find the words - to find the areas of the analyst that...

The Dynamic Underpinnings of the Eating Disorders with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD (San Francisco)

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The first line treatment for adolescents with anorexia now is family-based therapy typically, which involves helping the parents facilitate the refee...

Why Winnicott? - Part II: The Surviving Object Joel Whitebook, Ph.D. (New York), interviews Jan Abram, Ph.D. (London).

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The ability to play means we can indulge in a kind of illusion, not delusion, and make a distinction. It always amazes me that when the patient arriv...

Female Sexuality in India Today: Through an Analytic Lens with Amrita Narayanan, PsyD (Goa, India)

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I was speaking to the tendency of the popular media to perceive narratives of Indian women's sexuality via the lens of oppression. Now, of course, se...

Infertility and its Unconscious Reverberations with Mali Mann, MD (San Francisco)

11 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"The genetic asymmetry [with sperm donorship] will create issues and complications -  it puts a strain on the relationship, i.e. who is excluded; who...

The Repair of a Frame Gone Awry with Alan Karbelnig, PhD (Pasadena, California)

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"As I elaborate in the book, there was no physical contact or romantic engagement. The reason why I chose the 'lover' as the [psychoanalytic] analogy ...

An Analyst's Catholicism with Ginta Remeikis, MD (Rockville, Maryland)

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"What's the spiritual room? For me, it does tend to be a connection to something greater than just me; it is a contemplative space; it is getting to t...

Our Oral Tradition and the Aging Analyst with Nancy McWilliams, PhD (Lambertville, New Jersey)

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"My analysis not only allowed me to grieve [my mother], with my analyst patiently pushing me in the direction of my feelings, but it radically transfo...

The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Peter Goldberg, Ph.D., Michael Levin, Psy.D and Adam Blum, Psy.D (San Francisco Bay Area)

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The fact that music is so important for our constitution - that music is almost how we move in the world, that our own bodies are played through by m...

IPA Prejudices, Discrimination and Racism Committee with Abel Fainstein, MD (Buenos Aires)

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Discrimination is something that is needed for the child to create himself as a person. You need to be discriminated from the other, and the other is...

Acute Psychoanalytic Care of the Victims of the October 7th Massacre with Merav Roth, Ph.D. and Mira Ehrlich-Ginor, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv)

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The situation was that I went with my husband Danny, who is also a clinical psychologist, and we were  on the team that came and told people when fa...

Treatment of Child Soldiers: Traditional Healers and their Dynamic Underpinnings with Martha Bragin, PhD MSW (New York)

29 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The gift of the [traditional] healer that he shares with those of us who do psychoanalytic work is that we are given an idea of the human mind as bei...

Why Winnicott? Joel Whitebook, PhD (New York) interviews Jan Abrams, PhD (London)

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Instead of the analyst being in a position where they know something about the patient, they are with the patient. As Winnicott says in his late work...

From Filmmaking to Psychoanalysis with Karen Dougherty, FIPA (Toronto)

01 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I made a film for PepWeb on the research of Beatrice Beebe. I made the video for her picture book, The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book, and va...

The Presence of Religion within the Psychoanalytic Dyad with Nathan Szajnberg, MD (Palo Alto)

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"We know as analysts there's a long literature on mourning and its connection to creativity from the time of Freud's work to George Pollock's work and...

Superego, Conscience and the Narcissism of our Times with Don Carveth, PhD (Toronto)

03 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Conscience represents ethics that are not socially constructed and not socially learned but built-in. In fact, the whole of psychoanalysis is grounde...

Are Patients Different Today? with Stefano Bolognini, MD (Bologna)

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"One of the changes that analysis provided me with was an awareness about how similar we all are, of course with a few differences. For me, an analyst...

From Technology to Psychoanalysis with Nicolle Zapien, PhD (Oakland)

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Technology is based on the premise that there can be an optimization of things through algorithmic understanding. 'Ones and zeros' data can be manipu...

High - Conflict Divorce: Psychoanalytic Perspectives with Arthur Leonoff, Ph.D. (Ottawa)

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"In divorce it's fundamental that even though the couple ends, there's not an end to the family. We still owe a debt to the other - that other who off...

The Role of Defense Analysis in Child (and Adult) Treatment with Leon Hoffman, MD (New York)

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"The basic principle in defense analysis is that one approaches what is going on right now -  it's an experience-near technique. You don't make conje...

Freud's Nephew and the Creation of 'Buzz' around Psychoanalysis with Joseph Malherek, Ph.D. (Raleigh, North Carolina)

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"He [Bernays] proposed to his uncle that he'd do a translation of this book that had been given to him and Freud, perhaps without thinking too much ab...

Technique is Character Rationalized with Lee Grossman, MD (Oakland, Ca.)

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Analytic candidates in training struggle with the fact that you tend to get thrown into the deep water before you really know what you're doing. Then...

One Analyst - Two Continents: Treatment Differences? with Jeanne Wolff- Bernstein, Ph.D. (Vienna)

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"When you're with a patient you take all that you know in your head, all the theory, and you throw it away. You have to listen to the patient and th...

International Commentaries on the State of our Field with Fred Busch, Ph.D. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I've long had concerns about the practice of psychoanalysis and that the theory underlying it has become a veritable Tower of Babel. We have these mu...

Children Exposed to Pornography: the Erosion of Latency with Franco D'Alberton, Ph.D. & Andrea Scardovi, MD, Ph.D. (Bologna)

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"They interviewed more than 6,000 American parents and their children from ages eight to thirteen. They wanted to identify what the perception and r...

"Music Sounds the Way Emotion Feels": from the Piano to the Couch with Julie Nagel, PhD (Dexter, Michigan)

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Some of the shared concepts - even words that psychoanalysis and musicians use - such as conflict, ambiguity, silences, dissonance, resolution or not...

'Wearing the Attributes' - 50 years as an Analyst with Judith Chused, MD (Washington, DC)

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"A child [patient] makes a mistake, upsets things - one doesn't console or complain, but just reflects whatever the patient's affect was at that mome...

From Immunology to Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Primitive Mental States with Shiri Ben Bassat (Tel Aviv)

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"This is the first time that I really felt what is meant by cell relations. You have object relations and you have part-object relations and anxietie...

Freud Encounters C.S. Lewis as imagined by Mark St. Germain

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"[in the play Freud's Last Session]... with the sound of the bombers both men react as they did the first time - with fear. But this time instead of ...

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Evil with Dr. Roger Kennedy (London)

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"I feel as a psychoanalyst one has to respond to the world. We can't just simply remain in our consulting rooms although that has always been vitally...

Can Psychoanalysis be Identical Everywhere? with Jorge Bruce (Lima)

22 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Psychoanalysis is a translation of what I call in Spanish, Psicoanalisis Criollo, which means that we are hybrid cultures in Latin America, and that...

Psychoanalysis and Opera – rejoining the verbal and non-verbal with Steven Goldberg, MD and Lee Rather, Ph.D. (San Francisco)

08 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Unconsciously, or sometimes just without really focusing on it, we're always responding to the musicality of the patient's voice. I think that caref...

Psychoanalytic Fieldwork: A Woman Psychanalyst (Training Analyst IPA) Working in Eastern Africa with Dr. phil. Barbara Saegesser (Biel/Bienne, Switzerland)

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The psychoanalytic frame I have built in myself helps me to find a way to not go too near and not be too distant to a person. It is other than what w...

Teaching Dynamic Therapy through Storytelling with Anne Adelman, Ph.D. (Chevy Chase, MD) and Kerry Malawista, Ph.D. (Potomac, MD)

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"When I first started teaching it was most often done through theory, and teaching these complicated words with hard-to-understand concepts. It never ...

Analytic Desire, Listening and Letting Go with Mitchell Wilson, MD (Berkeley)

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"It seemed to me in my training, also in my scholarly pursuits, that desire did not have conceptual status in most analytic clinical theory. Most trad...

Polish Psychoanalysis, Ukraine and Intergenerational Trauma with Edyta Biernacka (Krakow)

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"During the treatment they start to think about their family, they want to understand what really happened to their parents that made them such monste...

Foreignness, the Blues, and Psychoanalysis in Iran with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Tehran)

16 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Aren't these daughters of Persia retelling that myth [Shahnameh] as we speak - they put their hair down, Rudabeh put her hair down. This time maybe ...

From Neurology to Psychoanalysis with Iftah Biran, MD (Tel Aviv) and Rachel Gross, MD (Philadelphia)

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I started with an analyst right as I was ending residency and starting the fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders. It was right i...

Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I feel very often that I can detect when people are doing case presentations, this ubiquitous tendency to not bother about the body. At a very super...

From Education to Psychoanalysis with Susana Merlo, MA (Buenos Aires) and Ellen Pinsky, PsyD (Cambridge, Mass)

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I think that writing also is among the things that help me think this through and get there. When I finished my degree, I was actually very pessimist...

"Nothing is Unimportant" - Contemporaneous Records of Mass Trauma: The Ringelblum Archive with Samuel Kassow, PhD

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The Archive begins in 1940. The Germans themselves do not decide they are going to murder all the Jews, they don't decide on the Final Solution unti...

Dynamic Psychotherapy of a Tortured Patient: Mentalization, Counter-transference, and Culture with Sverre Varvin, MD, Dr. Philos (Oslo, Norway)

17 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I think every encounter with the patient is a potential re-humanizing experience, also for me as a therapist. Because when we are slowly experiencing...

The Analyst's Early Experiences: Emerging Themes in Theory and Practice with Karen Maroda, PhD

03 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We are chosen [as children] for the roles of peacekeeper, soother, and possibly entertainer at times, because we temperamentally have been gifted wi...

Older Analysts Aging Well with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD

19 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Everyone was all for inclusion. There wasn't anybody who felt that this movement for inclusion was anything but good. But there were a lot of worrie...

An Analyst's Journey to Authenticity and Presence with Henry Markman, MD

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"What you are describing in the process of reading the book is what I am aspiring to which is a kind of deep emotional dialogue both in the book with ...

The Psychoanalytic Consultant with Glen Gabbard, MD (Houston)

22 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The role that an analyst plays is so important in terms of how people can be wounded, shamed and hurt in a variety of different ways. We need to be ...

PCCA (Partners in Confronting Collective Atrocities) and Working with Ukrainian Current Atrocities with Mira Erlich-Ginor (Tel-Aviv)

08 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"You can do as much about the legacy of the Holocaust - and what I took from my depressed mother who lost all her family in the Holocaust - there is ...

The Masculine Trajectory and the Development of Male Interiority with Michael Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles)

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The father carries the separation function which is very important in terms of progressive differentiation from the mother rather than forceful oppo...

Report from Ukrainian Psychoanalytic Society with Igor Romanov, Ph.D. (Kharkiv)

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I have some very close friends in Russia and some of them emigrated now and some of them are in Russia. Of course, I can speak with them very person...

A Psychoanalyst Administers Ketamine with Gita Vaid, MD

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"One of the things that I find absolutely remarkable about psychedelic medicines is the access one can have into discovering different parts of  one...

A Conversation with Ukrainian Psychoanalyst Oleksandra Mirza (Kyiv, Ukraine)

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We understand that we are not alone. It is crucially important to feel like that because we are a large country compared to other European countries ...

Musical Improvisation and Free Association with Rafael Ornstein, MD

06 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"Patients may be bringing in harmonies that are tough to connect, fragments of life or things that cannot be integrated. And part of the improvisation...

The Eyes, The Drives, and Culture with Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, PhD

20 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"I'm interested in with what mind and what imagination and thoughts and association one person lives her life. That's the common thread in all three n...

Addictive Pornography: Psychoanalytic Considerations with Claudia Spadazzi, MD and Jose Zusman, MD

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"We are all dependent and potentially addicted as well. We regularly use addictive objects whenever we are confronted with a circumstance that brings...