Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch
Health & Fitness:Mental Health
I observe what many of the French analysts and my supervisees say [about online treatment] - they are absolutely happy by how fantastic the patients talk, they talk much easier than before, they have dreams, and they relate their dreams and even sexual fantasies which they never did before. I understand them of course because they talk to them as easily as they would talk to a taxi driver that they will never see again.
Episode Description: We begin by recalling our first conversation in March 2020 (Episode #43) at the beginning of the lockdown in Paris and the switch from in-person to online analytic treatment. We discuss the impact of the missing bodies in the office and its implications for the freedom that some patients now feel to be more open. Marilia wondered about how analysands will feel when they return to in-person treatment after revealing more online than they would have otherwise tolerated. This forced experiment in technique will hopefully shed light on what is essential in our work in contrast to what are non-essential "rules."
We also discuss her 45 years of practicing analysis, her deepened comforts in aloneness, and her view on the future of our field.
Our Guest: Marilia Aisenstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst in the Hellenic Society and the Paris Society and past president of the Paris Society. She has served as the IPA's Board representative to the Executive Committee and the past president of the International New Groups Committee. She has been the Editor and co-founder of the French Review of Psychosomatics and President of the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics.
Her most recent book translated into English is Desire, Pain, and Thought.
Episode referred to
http://ipaoffthecouch.org/2020/03/31/episode-43-a-report-from-paris-with-marilia-aisenstein/
Meet the IPA's New President: Harriet Wolfe, MD
Off the Couch and into the Political Arena with John, Lord Alderdice FRCPsych (Oxford)
Why Do We Read Books? Literature and Psychoanalysis with Merav Roth, Ph.D.
The 4th Wall and the Movable Analytic Frame with Isacc Tylim, PsyD
Presidential Reflections on Psychoanalysis with Virginia Ungar, MD (Buenos Aires)
Fifty Years On, a Survivor of Torture Reflects on his Therapeutic Practice with John Schlapobersky, BA MSc (London)
Cultural Complexity: Palestinian Therapist - Jewish Patient with Roney Srour, PhD
Large Groups, Diplomacy, and Psychoanalysis with Vamik Volkan, MD
Wisdom and Enthusiasm for Today's Candidates with Fred Busch, PhD
A Psychoanalytic Consideration of Mass Murder - the Norway Experience with Dr. philos. Siri Erika Gullestad
Psychoanalysis during Wartime: The Israeli Experience with Yolanda Gampel, PhD
An Independent Thinker: Joel Whitebook Interviews Fred Pine
The Elder Analyst with Malkah Notman, MD
Repairing the Other - Our Planet with Sally Weintrobe
Thoughts about Termination with Judy Kantrowitz, PhD
A Psychoanalytic COVID Workbook for Children in South Africa with Jennifer Davids, M.Sc.
Psychoanalytic Curiosity and Boundaries with Philip Stokoe (London)
A Psychoanalyst and Magic Moments: Working with Caregivers of Traumatized Children with Alexandra Harrison, M.D. (Cambridge, Mass.)
Episode 79: Shame, Guilt, and Ruminations with Donald Carveth, Ph.D. (Toronto)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Your Sleep Guru Podcast
Anxiety Slayer™ with Shann and Ananga
Men Do Talk Podcast
The Dr. John Delony Show
On Purpose with Jay Shetty