Discussions On Psychoanalysis

Grégoire Pierre & Edgard Danielsen

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  • 48 minutes 44 seconds
    #58 On Red Flags (Unethical or not Psychoanalysis)
    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 this application, and we encourage you to do the same. We'll maintain the FB page, but nothing else, for the same reasons. Thank you for listening, and if you like the podcast, give us 5 stars and mention us to your friends and colleagues.
    16 February 2026, 6:20 am
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    #57 On Shame
    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 between students [57:59] Peer group to counter shame [01:01:33] 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 this application, and we encourage you to do the same. We'll maintain the FB page, but nothing else, for the same reasons. Thank you for listening, and if you like the podcast, give us 5 stars and mention us to your friends and colleagues.
    23 September 2025, 10:00 am
  • 31 minutes 37 seconds
    #56 On Institutions' Internal Tensions Part 2
    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 owner of this application, and we encourage you to do the same. We'll maintain the FB page, but nothing else, for the same reasons. Thank you for listening, and if you like the podcast, give us 5 stars and mention us to your friends and colleagues.
    9 March 2025, 12:00 am
  • 28 minutes 58 seconds
    #55 On Institutions' Internal Tensions
    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] Training Analysis [20:43] Tensions in the cross identifications [24:30] Submission to bad treatments [27:23] Ending
    11 February 2025, 12:00 am
  • 26 minutes 53 seconds
    # 54 On Intolerance of Diversity in Psychoanalytic Institutes
    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] Different trainings, similar outcomes. [20:22] Theory & Loss
    10 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 59 minutes 20 seconds
    #53 On Choosing a Psychoanalytic Institute & a Supervisor
    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 of a specialized institute [36:42] Choosing a supervisor or many [46:29] Important but hard to know aspects of an institute [51:00] Limited amount of staff members [52:08] Ability to integrate the conflicts in the present and the past [56:51] Ending
    1 December 2024, 12:00 am
  • 30 minutes 41 seconds
    #52 On Choosing an Analysant
    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
    17 September 2024, 10:00 am
  • 34 minutes 37 seconds
    #51 On Choosing an Analyst
    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
    13 August 2024, 10:00 am
  • 52 minutes 38 seconds
    #50 On Using Psychoanalysis in an Institution
    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] How was it psychoanalysis? [40:10] Ending Thank you Share with us your comments or questions directly at [email protected] Twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud @user-296153775 iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disc…is/id1454139315
    14 May 2024, 10:00 am
  • 56 minutes 35 seconds
    #49 On Working with Children with Psychosis
    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 of La Nouba [19:07] Choice of songs and frame [26:10] Negative reactions [29:06] Intern's role [32:00] Evolution of the frame [33:40] The Playlist and holding the frame [37:50] Psychoanalysis in such a frame? [44:11] Working with psychosis with your body [47:20] Ending and addons Thank you Share with us your comments or questions directly at [email protected] Twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud @user-296153775 iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disc…is/id1454139315
    9 April 2024, 9:59 am
  • 45 minutes 1 second
    #48 On How We Try To Justify Our Presence
    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] Anxiety to justify our presence and fees [36:26] Understandable interventions Thank you Share with us your comments or questions directly at [email protected] Twitter twitter.com/DiscusOnPsycha Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/249668092601494/ SoundCloud @user-296153775 iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disc…is/id1454139315
    13 February 2024, 11:00 am
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