On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in an frank and open conversation about their experiences with patients who are looking for something the analyst cannot provide. The hosts look at the tension created when the tectonic plates of what institutes define as psychoanalytic work, the fantasies of a patient seeking psychotherapy, and the analyst's limitations collide in psychoanalytic room. Part 1 of 2 podcasts. Share wit...
Nov 10, 2021•31 min
Second part of our interview with Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies and practices as a "social relational psychoanalyst" in New York City. 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/disc…is/id1454139315 [02:02] Obstacles encountered in her practice [07:02] Resistances to the...
Oct 12, 2021•37 min
On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen interview Dr. Catherine Silver, Professor of Sociology who identifies as a "social relational psychoanalyst." Through their candid dialogue, hosts and guest explore the web of forces - personal and social - that lead a person to become a psychoanalyst, another person to desire being in psychoanalysis, and these two to find each other in the therapy room. We engage in themes of cla...
Sep 21, 2021•37 min
This month, Edgard Fransico Danielsen and Grégoire Pierre discuss some aspects of how modernity and post modernity affect our work as psychoanalysts. 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/disc…is/id1454139315 [04:16] The loss of transcendence [09:00] The shift in sublimation and social assignati...
Jul 13, 2021•32 min
On the 22nd installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre & Edgard Francisco Danielsen engage in conversation about the covid vaccine and the impact on their practices. What was their internal experience when they received the shot: relief, anxiety, shame, guilt? What were their phantasies? They address the various forces that drove them back to their physical offices and to in-person psychoanalysis. What has been the experiences of analysands and analysts seeing each other i...
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr
In a new episode of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, engage in their last discussion of the series on psychoanalysis and the social. In particular, Grégoire and Edgard Francisco share their thoughts on the assumptions and cultural perceptions the members of the dyad - analyst and analysand - may have of each other while listening to each other in languages outside their mother's tongues. In addition, they discuss their ideas on the ubiqui...
May 11, 2021•28 min
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 where they come from in the analysis, what it means to work with people who come from different countries with different knowledge of the analytic process, how we are always in a process of exclusion and inclusion, and how influenced we are by the difficulty of the US society with conflict. Finally, we will have a little chat on the religion and the...
Apr 13, 2021•30 min
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 social in our psychoanalytic practices. We will address the difficulty to integrate the social in some psychoanalytic trainings, what to do when the social meets a patient's issue, can we include the social and still be psychoanalysts, and how taking the social into account is an unspoken or unrecognized necessity in a psychoanalytic work. Share with us...
Mar 09, 2021•26 min
In this podcast, your hosts will discuss social aspects of the relationship between patients and psychoanalyst. We will address the questions of social conventions, seduction, the place of the analyst as a third, and finally what it is to be a psychoanalyst in one's social life. 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...
Feb 09, 2021•48 min
Second part of the interview with Lee Jenkins on race and racism from a psychoanalytic perspective. 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/disc…is/id1454139315
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
On the latest installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, Grégoire Pierre interviews Dr. Lee Jenkins, Training Analyst and Supervisor at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) in New York City. Dr. Jenkins leads the audience through an abridged chronicle of his upbringing in the south of the United States to his work as a college professor to becoming a psychoanalyst. Dr. Jenkins welcomes us into his personal experiences and weaves a tapestry with stories on race and ...
Dec 10, 2020•48 min
“Four psychoanalysts enter a bar …” or so would go a variation of the jocular trope, except that this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis was not recorded in a bar, and much less the subject is a funny thing. In this episode, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, invite two other psychoanalysts – Tine Pahl and Peter Jaegerman – to ponder the complexities of race and racism. This podcast was recorded 18 months ago, and you won’t hear a word on COVID or latest social...
Oct 28, 2020•54 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen, answer some questions from the audience, e.g. fantasy and note-taking, and delve deeper into the shifting demands and explorations regarding on how to do psychoanalysis in times of pandemic. The psychoanalytic frame has changed, in what ways does it impact the work with our patients? Both analyst and patient are immersed in the same external global reality, i.e. pandemic, what does t...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 11 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about beginnings and ends of therapy. This time wondering if a therapy can really end. 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/disc…is/id1454139315
Jun 09, 2020•24 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about beginnings and ends of therapy. This time on the last sessions. 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/disc…is/id1454139315
May 12, 2020•29 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, continue to engage in conversation about the beginnings of the treatment. This time on the second session and the following ones. 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/disc…is/id1454139315
Apr 14, 2020•26 min
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 they are facing. 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/disc…is/id1454139315
Mar 22, 2020•49 min
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, they continue to ponder in what ways their perspectives on their private psychoanalytic practices have changed since the first podcast. 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 podcas...
Feb 18, 2020•23 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis your hosts, Grégoire Pierre and Edgard F. Danielsen, engage in conversation about the beginnings of the treatment. Among other subjects, we explore the transition we experienced as we moved from seeing patients in a clinical center associated with an institute to our own private practices: we compare and contrast the referring processes, and our understanding of unconscious fantasies associated with being non-licensed and becoming licensed psy...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 2 min
In this month’s installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis, we respond to the audience comments to our prior podcasts.
Dec 10, 2019•21 min
Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen continue to explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese manga (comic) that targets adolescents. Pierre’s thesis is that Nekketsu talk to teenagers’ unconscious through displacement, condensation, and symbolization. Weaving together the structural model, object relations, and developmental theories, Pierre and Danielsen ponder how the Nekketsu sagas mirror the inner world of adolescents: the stories become sp...
Nov 09, 2019•42 min
Grégoire Pierre and Edgard Francisco Danielsen explore Nekketsu through a psychoanalytic lens. Nekketsu is a subcategory of Japanese manga (comic) that targets adolescents. Pierre’s thesis is that Nekketsu talk to teenagers’ unconscious through displacement, condensation, and symbolization. Weaving together the structural model, object relations, and developmental theories, Pierre and Danielsen ponder how the Nekketsu sagas mirror the inner world of adolescents: the stories become spaces on whic...
Oct 08, 2019•38 min
Dear Listeners, In this month’s episode, we respond to the audience comments, expanding the concept of “judgment” and its implications for the therapeutic work, in particular when confronted with the dilemma of "judgment calls." In addition, we develop some of the ideas related to psychoanalytic theory as a container for the analyst's anxiety, and fantasy as existing outside the realm of morality. Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitte...
Sep 10, 2019•24 min
On this installment of Discussions on Psychoanalysis we engage in a conversation on forgiveness. We look at forgiveness from a religious perspective - including the myth of Jonah - and from a psychoanalytic perspective. Among many other questions, we touch on the following: In what ways can we address forgiveness in the therapeutic process? Does morality have a part in the psychoanalytic treatment? How does forgiving oneself is experienced by the patient? And forgiving others? What about the agg...
Jul 04, 2019•37 min
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 us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitter https://twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-296153775 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discussions-on-psychoanalysis/id1454139315 [01:45] Thank you [02:46] Patien...
May 31, 2019•34 min
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. Share with us your comments or questions directly at discussionsonpsychoanalysis@pm.me or on twitter https://twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-296153775 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/discussions-on-psychoanalysis/id1454139315 [0:07] Intro [04:05...
Feb 24, 2019•55 min
