Current Psychoanalysis with Mark Kinet

Two virtual hosts discuss the key points of Unnatural Love , a paper by Mark Kinet in the Dutch Journal of Psychoanalysis . He argues that psychoanalysis sees perversion not simply as a sexual deviation but as a complex way of coping with innerconflict. Freud viewed it as an expression of the child's early sexuality and as a defence against deep-seated fears of loss and vulnerability. Klein li...

Mark Solms is widely regarded as one of the leading figures in contemporary psychoanalysis and neuroscience. He is the editor of Freud’s New Standard Edition and he has played a major role in restoring psychoanalysis to scientific standing. His latest book bears a characteristically ambitious title: The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing . Drawing on Mark Kinet’s critical revi...

Some children learn too early how to care for others—and too late how to care for themselves. Based on Mark Kinet's The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification , this conversation explores the hidden costs of growing up with responsibilities that belong to adults. The works of Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Michael Balint, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Wilfred Bion and Jacques...

Why is therapy not a car wash? Based on Mark Kinet's Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Reported and Recorded , this virtual conversation explores what psychotherapy looks like through the eyes of those who have actually undergone it. The book begins and ends with a survey of psychoanalytic principles that organise clinical practice. Then we hear the patients' stories in t...

What does psychoanalytic psychotherapy actually look like in everyday psychiatric practice? Drawing on Mark Kinet's Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Psychiatric Practice: Premises and Clinical Portraits , this episode first sketches seven psychoanalytic principles that organise Kinet's clinical work. Then, 77 patients are portrayed, showing naturalistic problems and therapeutic process as t...

Can psychiatry benefit from psychoanalytic thinking without abandoning scientific rigour? Drawing on Mark Kinet's Psychoanalytic Principles in Psychiatric Practice: A Remedy by Truth , this lively conversation between two virtual hosts introduces themes such as unconscious meaning, therapeutic listening, transference, subjectivity, diagnosis, and the place of truth in mental health treatment....

Can neuroscience help us understand what Freud meant by the drive? Drawing on Mark Kinet's The Spirit of the Drive in Neuropsychoanalysis , this lively discussion between two virtual hosts introduces listeners to topics such as affective consciousness, SEEKING, motivation, desire, and the future of psychoanalytic thinking. Key authors include Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, Jaak Pa...