Ranked #1
Christopher Bollas, “When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia” (Yale University Press, 2015)
Christopher Bollas, “When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia” (Yale University Press, 2015)
In his second visit with New Books in Psychoanalysis, Christopher Bollas elucidates his thinking about schizophrenia. Bu... Read more
21 Dec 2015
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55mins
Ranked #2
Daniel Shaw, “Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation” (Routledge, 2013)
Daniel Shaw, “Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation” (Routledge, 2013)
Conventional psychoanalytic views of narcissism focus on familiar character traits: grandiosity, devaluation, entitlemen... Read more
28 Jan 2015
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54mins
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Ranked #3
Bruce Fink, “Against Understanding. Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key” (Routledge, 2014)
Bruce Fink, “Against Understanding. Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key” (Routledge, 2014)
What can possibly be wrong with the process of understanding in psychoanalytic treatment? Everything, according to Bruce... Read more
17 Nov 2014
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #4
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Todd McGowan, “Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Todd McGowan‘s Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (Columbia University Press, 2016) elegantly emplo... Read more
19 Mar 2017
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59mins
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Zahi Zalloua, "Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Zahi Zalloua, "Žižek on Race: Towards an Anti-Racist Future" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
The Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek’s prolific quips on various cultural and political issues aro... Read more
23 Mar 2020
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Ranked #6
Lewis Kirshner, “Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice” (Routledge, 2017)
Lewis Kirshner, “Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: A Model for Theory and Practice” (Routledge, 2017)
It has been said that we cannot not be in intersubjectivity. During the past decades, this fact has challenged the tradi... Read more
29 Aug 2017
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52mins
Ranked #7
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pu... Read more
30 Mar 2020
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54mins
Ranked #8
Mark Epstein, “The Trauma of Everyday Life” (Penguin Press, 2013)
Mark Epstein, “The Trauma of Everyday Life” (Penguin Press, 2013)
Being human, much of our energy goes into resisting the basic mess of life, but messy it is nonetheless. The trick (as p... Read more
13 Oct 2014
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53mins
Ranked #9
Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel" (Routledge, 2019
Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel" (Routledge, 2019
"I’m very happy to say I really really do love psychoanalysis. I think the insights are absolutely genius and I don’t th... Read more
15 Nov 2019
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1hr 11mins
Ranked #10
Mark Borg, et. al. “Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy” (Central Recovery Press, 2015)
Mark Borg, et. al. “Irrelationship: How We Use Dysfunctional Relationships to Hide from Intimacy” (Central Recovery Press, 2015)
Why do relationship partners so often feel isolated and unsatisfied despite all their efforts to show love and caring to... Read more
16 Jul 2016
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Ranked #11
Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)
Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)
How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim, “The unconscious i... Read more
16 Jan 2018
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56mins
Ranked #12
Theodore J. Jacobs, “The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change” (Routledge, 2013)
Theodore J. Jacobs, “The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change” (Routledge, 2013)
In this interview Dr. Theodore Jacobs discusses his book The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change (Routle... Read more
20 Oct 2015
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45mins
Ranked #13
Mark Solms, “The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers in Neuropsychoanalysis” (Karnac, 2015)
Mark Solms, “The Feeling Brain: Selected Papers in Neuropsychoanalysis” (Karnac, 2015)
If you steered yourself away from books about brain science because you were interested in something completely differen... Read more
3 Jul 2017
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56mins
Ranked #14
Alenka Zupancic, “What is Sex?” (MIT Press, 2017)
Alenka Zupancic, “What is Sex?” (MIT Press, 2017)
Alenka Zupancic has done the unthinkable. She has managed to write a fun and exciting book about sex with only cursory m... Read more
14 Mar 2018
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #15
Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)
Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches t... Read more
15 Aug 2019
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59mins
Ranked #16
Donnel B. Stern, “Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field” (Routledge, 2015)
Donnel B. Stern, “Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field” (Routledge, 2015)
We are mostly familiar with the hermeneutics of suspicion. But what about a hermeneutics of curiosity? In his latest boo... Read more
1 Aug 2015
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57mins
Ranked #17
Jan Abram and R. D. Hinshelwood, “The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues” (Routledge, 2018)
Jan Abram and R. D. Hinshelwood, “The Clinical Paradigms of Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott: Comparisons and Dialogues” (Routledge, 2018)
Can one integrate Klein and Winnicott? Or does one have to choose between them when practicing psychoanalysis? These are... Read more
12 Jul 2018
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49mins
Ranked #18
Christopher Bollas, “Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown” (Routledge, 2013)
Christopher Bollas, “Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown” (Routledge, 2013)
What if analysts took steps to keep their analysands out of the hospital when they were beginning to breakdown? What wou... Read more
26 Mar 2013
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59mins
Ranked #19
Adam Phillips, “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst” (Yale UP, 2014)
Adam Phillips, “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst” (Yale UP, 2014)
For those who are savvy about all things psychoanalytic, be they analysts, analysands, or fellow travelers, the existenc... Read more
28 Jul 2014
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54mins
Ranked #20
Galit Atlas, “The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2015)
Galit Atlas, “The Enigma of Desire: Sex, Longing, and Belonging in Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2015)
This interview is really a conversation between two friends, peers, and colleagues–two women who were pleased to find ea... Read more
2 Jun 2016
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59mins