Discussions On Psychoanalysis

Every month we try to offer a good enough, candid and open discussion on different aspects of psychoanalysis. We invite our audience to share with us their comments and questions by writing to us 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

Episodes

DoP 60 - On Sport and Psychoanalysis Part 1 (w/ Joseph S. Reynoso)

August 11, 2026 • 44 mins

Dear Listeners, In this episode, our guest Joseph S. Reynoso, Ph.D. leads the discussion on psychoanalysis and sport. After discussing what led Joseph to develop a special interest in sport and psychoanalysis, we started to focus on how to understand sport through a psychoanalytic lens. This is the first part of a two part interview. Joseph S. Reynoso is a psychoanalytic clinical psychologist in New York City, where he treats chi...

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#59 On Other Red Flags

April 28, 2026 • 72 mins

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: @discussionsonpsya.bsky.social We stopped updatin...

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#58 On Red Flags (Unethical or not Psychoanalysis)

February 16, 2026 • 48 mins

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 want to support the owner of thi...

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#57 On Shame

September 23, 2025 • 64 mins

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 intense for analysts? [54:38] Shame betw...

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#56 On Institutions' Internal Tensions Part 2

March 8, 2025 • 31 mins

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 we do not want to support the o...

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#55 On Institutions' Internal Tensions

February 10, 2025 • 28 mins

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 the analysis for? [18:12] Trainin...

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# 54 On Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes

January 9, 2025 • 26 mins

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 & Loneliness. [17:23] Differen...

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#53 On Choosing a Psychoanalytic Institute & a Supervisor

November 30, 2024 • 59 mins

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 eclectic be better? [30:18] The pros...

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#52 On Choosing an Analysant

September 17, 2024 • 30 mins

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

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#51 On Choosing an Analyst

August 13, 2024 • 34 mins

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

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#50 On Using Psychoanalysis in an Institution

May 14, 2024 • 52 mins

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 of working with psychosis [36:22]...

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#49 On Working with Children with Psychosis

April 9, 2024 • 56 mins

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 [11:00] Inspiration [15:19] Creation ...

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#48 On How We Try To Justify Our Presence

February 13, 2024 • 45 mins

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" [23:05] To trust the process [33:37] ...

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#47 On How to Keep the Psychoanalyst Alive

January 9, 2024 • 36 mins

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] Ending Thank you Share with us your c...

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#46 On How to keep Psychoanalysis alive

December 12, 2023 • 39 mins

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] How far do we change psychoana...

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#45 On What is and is not Psychoanalysis

November 14, 2023 • 56 mins

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 is not psychoanalysis? [54:56] Endi...

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#44 On Death Anxiety and our Shared Reality

August 8, 2023 • 47 mins

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? [28:21] A look back at the first ...

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#43 On Death Anxiety - The Influence of Cultures

July 11, 2023 • 32 mins

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 denials [21:27] Distortion thro...

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#42 On Death Anxiety - The symbolic & the Reality

June 13, 2023 • 26 mins

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 to address DA without being too dep...

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#41 On What We Decide To Question

May 16, 2023 • 39 mins

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] Questioning the urge [13:20] Internal Dia...

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Discussions On Psychoanalysis

Episodes

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#58 On Red Flags (Unethical or not Psychoanalysis)

#57 On Shame

#56 On Institutions' Internal Tensions Part 2

#55 On Institutions' Internal Tensions

# 54 On Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes

#53 On Choosing a Psychoanalytic Institute & a Supervisor

#52 On Choosing an Analysant

#51 On Choosing an Analyst

#50 On Using Psychoanalysis in an Institution

#49 On Working with Children with Psychosis

#48 On How We Try To Justify Our Presence

#47 On How to Keep the Psychoanalyst Alive

#46 On How to keep Psychoanalysis alive

#45 On What is and is not Psychoanalysis

#44 On Death Anxiety and our Shared Reality

#43 On Death Anxiety - The Influence of Cultures

#42 On Death Anxiety - The symbolic & the Reality

#41 On What We Decide To Question

Popular Podcasts

DoP 60 - On Sport and Psychoanalysis Part 1 (w/ Joseph S. Reynoso)

#59 On Other Red Flags