On Paternal Presence - Heribert Blass
In the wake of profound cultural change, the traditional image of the father has been destabilized, prompting renewed psychoanalytic reflection. No longer confined to authority alone, the paternal fig...
22 Juli 202527min
What Can Psychoanalysis Offer to Alleviate Toxic Polarization - Harriet Wolfe
The current social, political and historical context offers many difficult challenges. We have experienced up close and from a distance awareness of a remarkable number of challenges including the war...
26 Juni 202518min
Confidentiality in Supervision – Ellen A. Sparer
What happens when the analytic setting—built on confidentiality and silence—meets the institutional demands of psychoanalytic training? Can the frame of supervision truly preserve the integrity of the...
5 Juni 202525min
Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis - Renata Viola Vives & Ana Teresa Vale
Medical interventions in fertility have transformed how people experience parenthood. How can clinicians navigate the intricate emotional landscape created by assisted reproduction? In this episode, R...
19 Mars 202519min
Building a Space for Thinking - Alberto Carrión García de Parada
What challenges face the patient and analyst in constructing the analytic space? How can the analyst navigate the interplay of intense emotional dynamics to enable meaningful transformation? In this a...
16 Jan 202529min
The Desire and Passion for a Child - Dr. Patricia Alkolombre
In today’s context of reproductive technologies, one has the idea that we might have more control over the process of reproduction. No longer necessarily linked to sexuality, reproduction and parentho...
21 Aug 202428min
Freud, his passion for travel, and its impact on psychoanalytic discoveries - Patricia O'Donnell
What is it that is so captivating about travel? In Freud’s travel letters chronicling his experiences over many decades in different countries, there are the seeds of the advance of non-clinical expe...
25 Juni 202422min
Inanimate Objects in the Frame - Jacqueline Godfrind
What roles do the inanimate objects in the psychoanalyst’s office play in the treatment? Paintings on the walls, bookcases, armchairs, carpets, sculptures, and of course, the couch are simultaneously...
22 Maj 202422min
