Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
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An Analyst's Reflections on Mourning and What Makes Suffering Tolerable with Sandra Buechler, PhD (New York)
October 4, 2026 · 59 min"I believe that to be inspiring, we have to have conviction. Conviction is the central thing to me. Conviction about treatment itself, and conviction about the way that we do treatment. I saw two analysts at two different times of my life…
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A Cure by Love and Science with Mark Solms, PhD (Cape Town)
September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 19 minAlthough I believe that transference interpretation is the core mechanism of change in psychoanalysis, I don't believe it's the only mechanism. I think there are other things that go on too. I also think that alongside the transference…
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From the Music Studio to the Consulting Room with Edmund Sprunger, MSW (St. Louis)
September 6, 2026 · 51 min"In analytic training, and actually through my own analysis, is really where it happened. I think I just got more of a sense that whatever was going on with my students and the parents of my students was maybe not about me. It might not be…
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Time of War: Iran Today with Gohar Homayounpour, PsyD (Paris)
August 9, 2026 · 52 min"How do we continue doing this work when the socio-political realities are unimaginable? I've been living in Paris the last few years, and I continue to have a full caseload in Tehran and other cities. There was a time that the internet…
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From Couch to Page: The Craft of Psychodynamic Case Writing with Aner Govrin, PhD (Tel Aviv)
July 12, 2026 · 58 min"We have a trove of treasure. These are the case studies, and we need the case studies - these are the flora and fauna of our field. This is how we work. We work by reading case studies and they enrich us. Not only do they enrich the…
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My Journey from Veterinary Medicine to Psychoanalysis with Michele Gaspar, DVM,MA,LCPC (Chicago)
June 28, 2026 · 53 min"I have always been fascinated by the world of animals. What fascinated me about them is that when you pay attention to animals, this is a world beyond words. Words are not part of their world, so you start paying attention to movement, to…
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The Analyst as Transference and Developmental Object with Carla Neely, PhD (Washington, DC)
June 14, 2026 · 57 min"As analysts, we have our own development - as humans, we have our own development. My view is that the work of analysis, if the developmental piece is present, requires some relatively sophisticated developmental capacity on the part of…
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AI, Subjectivity and Psychoanalysis with Amy Levy, PhD (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
May 31, 2026 · 56 min"Humanism has been the dominant Western belief system of the last century. It's based on the worship of human wisdom, human creation, human experience, human mind, and psychoanalysis has very much emerged from this humanist tradition. We…