Discussions On Psychoanalysis

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts conclude their discussion on various red flags regarding analysts behaviors. They try to explain why some things should be avoided, each time with a psychoanalytic explanation. [03:49] Commercial use of our practice [12:19] It could be a beginner mistake [45:16] It depends [60:07 Disagrements [60:09] Ending You can follow us on BlueSky: @discussionsonpsy...

In this episode, your hots discuss a list of therapy red flags offered by Jonathan Shedler. We will focus on Unethical red flags and red flags indicating that this is not a psychoanalytic practice. [06:10] This is not psychoanalysis. [33:50] This is unethical. [45:35] Ending You can follow us on BlueSky: @discussionsonpsya.bsky.social We stopped updating our profile on Tweeter/X because we do not...

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] Shame by interpretation [13:19] Did patients change? [14:33] Shame and defense [22:08] Perversions [31:18] The analyst's shame [44:27] Shame and castration [46:38] Shame and anger directed at the Institute [48:05] Shame and hiding [50:11] More intens...

Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts conclude their commentary of the article "The intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutions" by Kenneth Eisold. [0:28] Intro [1:47] Tensions around pairing [7:21] The hurtfull feeling of superiority [21:49] Insecurity during training You can follow us on BlueSky: @discussionsonpsya.bsky.social We stopped updating our profile on Tweeter/X because...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts continue their discussion based on the article "The Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes" by Kenneth Eisold. Let us know what you think, and follow us on BlueSky (discussionsonpsya.bsky.social). Thank you for listening [03:04] Tension around networking [06:02] Analysis and whealth [08:23] "You need to go back to analysis" [13:47] What is...

Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts based their discussion on a 1994 article written by Kenneth Eisold, "The Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes". Happy New Year! [02:56] Little things the paper does not address. [06:47] Survival & History. [08:54] Tension between belonging to a group of analysts and being available to the diversity of our patients. [14:22] Institutes & Lo...

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 chose our institute [9:08] Institutes & Academia [13:16] What is the point of a psychoanalytic institute? [17:31] The infamous 800 level at NPAP [18:17] Why do we need a place to train? [24:15] A personal analysis is not enough [27:22] Why would eclec...

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 an "interesting patient"? [11:43] Beyond an embellished story? [19:21] No family therapist [22:44] Recognizing our own limitations [27:30] Ending

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 interest [04:17] Choosing an analyst inside or outside an Institute? [07:00] Seeing the analyst at a party [16:50] Incestuous dynamics [17:26] What about people who are not in training? [27:11] MDs, SWs, Analysts? [31:37] Ending

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: how to use psychoanalysis in an institution? [01:10] Intro [07:11] Relating [13:17] Institution éclatée [shattered institution] [19:26] Psychotic societies allergic to psychosis [20:55] How to treat people? [26:03] Working at night [28:43] The intensity...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, we discuss Grégoire's experience working with children and teenagers with psychosis, autism and severe borderline features. This episode focus on the activity Grégoire created with a fellow intern, Sandie Lalouette, for a very regressed teenager, Louice. [0:36] Intro [04:25] My work with kids [08:24] What the kids had in commun [10:03] Don't attack the symptoms [11...

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] Intro [05:49] How do we know if an intervention was needed? [08:23] The impossibility of case presentation [11:46] To present to defend (psychoanalysis)? [14:11] Do we want to be well analyzed? [19:07] Tension btw what we said and "should have said" [23...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing what could and should be done to keep the psychoanalysts alive, not just physically, but also mentally. [00:31] Intro [03:22] How do we keep a sense of purpose? [06:49] Managing life expectations [10:38] "Temps FIR" [12:57] How to not feel depleted? [21:17] To stay in a position of uncertainty [26:50] Location and convenience [34:02] Endin...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts have a discussion on how to keep psychoanalysis alive. [04:06] Psychoanalysis in literature [05:10] Definition of life [08:33] Younger patients [10:04] Adapt the way we welcome patients [13:19] What are we adapting to? [16:57] Something of the social rules [20:15] Evolving without betraying [23:44] Magical & religious thinking [24:52] Cut the BS [27:37]...

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 alive? [06:21] 3 fold answer [06:58] Narcissistic needs [15:59] Psychoanalysis as a movement and a state of mind [24:09] Can we work with everybody? [27:40] The question of 3 times a week [33:20] Tension between Institutions and creativity [45:13] What i...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your host and our special guest Tenille Blair Neff conclude their discussion on death anxiety. Little note: for a sustainable, local, organic and psychoanalytic honey: http://www.ohhoneyapiaries.com/ [0:22] Intro [07:42] Are we referring to aggression too quickly? [13:01] What to do about our shared humanity? [23:44] What about the analyst envy of patients' youth?...

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 influence how we can think (or not) about it. [0:20] Intro [3:03] Freud, DA and beyond the fantasy [05:20] DA and death drive [09:02] How can we work with DA? [14:01] Privacy & Secrecy [15:40] Influence of the culture [17:21] Religion and multiples d...

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 only taking death anxiety on the symbolic side can miss important part of what patients might express. [00:22] Intro [04:24] When we start thinking about the reality of death anxiety [06:59] How working on the symbolic can be a defense [08:43] How t...

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 clinical work, etc. Of course, there are many things we unknowingly forgot to question during this discussion, but such is our human condition. [0:23] Intro [2:25] Should we try to explore our own decision to question one thing or another? [7:38] Questio...

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] Intro [03:04] Edgard's discovery of psychoanalysis [06:09] Grégoire's discovery of psychoanalysis [17:21] Edgard's choice [19:06] Psychoanalysis in a University [22:52] Choosing NPAP [24:14] Clergy & recognizing the missing [28:18] Bonneuil [30:07] N...

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 but can also hurt the process. [0:22] Intro [04:13] Hu Hum or not Hu Hum] [07:23] Masochism [09:50] Leaving space to the ambivalence [12:26] How do we need to assume? [15:45] Support & Anxiety [18:06] Impossible to reach a satisfactory result [22:02]...

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 despite our conscious best intentions. This podcast, recorded a few months ago, is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague Peter Jaegerman who died recently. [0:28] Intro [02:02] How can we know that we are not attacking our patients? [4:58] How m...

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 from? And where do patients speak from? Happy Holidays! [0:20] Intro [03:30] What do we do? [14:53] Where do we position ourselves? [20:48] Are we splitting? [29:00] Where do patients come from? [33:10] How to know when we are in the wrong? [35:34] Issu...

Dear Listeners, In this episode, your hosts are discussing the necessity and difficulties to question theories in our daily practice. Thank you for listening. Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud @user-296153775 iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

Dear Listeners, In this episode your hosts question how psychoanalysis interacts with societies, and how psychoanalysis can help us get a better sense of some unspoken nuances in the social discourse. Thank you for listening. Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/2496680926014...