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Talks On PsychoanalysisOn Paternal Presence - Heribert BlassIn the wake of profound cultural change, the traditional image of the father has been destabilized, prompting renewed psychoanalytic reflection. No longer confined to authority alone, the paternal figure is now expected to embody both care and limit. What psychic space does the father occupy in the life of the child? In this episode, Heribert Blass explores fatherhood through a contemporary psychoanalytic lens.
Drawing on clinical experience, interdisciplinary research, and cultural observation, he outlines a model of committed paternity that integrates emotional presence with symbolic function. From early play to Oedipal conflict, the father's task is to...2025-07-2227 minTalks On PsychoanalysisWhat Can Psychoanalysis Offer to Alleviate Toxic Polarization - Harriet Wolfe
The current social, political and historical context offers many difficult challenges. We have experienced up close and from a distance awareness of a remarkable number of challenges including the wars, political unrest, growing socioeconomic inequities, climate catastrophe, and human and animal suffering. These times are also marked by polarized thinking, including among analysts, candidates and in our communities. An application of a psychoanalytically-informed method that rests on psychoanalytic clinical theory but focuses on group experiences of psycho-historical conflict as it continues in the present is offered as a means to facilitate deep and moving change when there is toxic po...2025-06-2618 minTalks On PsychoanalysisConfidentiality in Supervision – Ellen A. SparerWhat happens when the analytic setting—built on confidentiality and silence—meets the institutional demands of psychoanalytic training? Can the frame of supervision truly preserve the integrity of the analytic pact, or does it inevitably put it at risk?
In this episode, Ellen Sparer explores a central paradox in psychoanalytic formation: the tension between the confidentiality of analytic work and the structural requirements of supervision. Drawing from her experience at the Paris Psychoanalytic Institute, she asks whether supervision risks undermining the very foundation of the analytic situation—what Freud, in An Outline of Psychoanalysis, described as a pact i...2025-06-0525 min
Technology and the MindPhenomenology, aesthetics and technology with Dr. Tone RoaldIn this episode, Dr. Roald discusses the importance of art and aesthetic experience and its relationship to freedom. We draw connections to technology and its impact on our experience of art and freedom as well as connections to psychoanalysis.2025-04-1545 minTalks On PsychoanalysisAssisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis - Renata Viola Vives & Ana Teresa ValeMedical interventions in fertility have transformed how people experience parenthood. How can clinicians navigate the intricate emotional landscape created by assisted reproduction?
In this episode, Renata Viola Vives and Ana Teresa Vale explore the complex relationship between assisted reproduction and psychoanalysis, drawing from their edited book, "Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis," published by Routledge. Conceived through years of clinical work and shaped by the collaborative encounters fostered by COWAP, the IPA Women and Psychoanalysis Committee, they explore how contemporary practices redefine our understanding of parenthood, identity, and desire.
Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors add...2025-03-1919 minTechnology and the MindTeleanalysis, Telehealth and Teletraining with Dr. Leora TrubIn this episode Dr. Trub discusses her research and experience training psychologists prior, during and after to COVID-19. She calls for more thinking about teleanalysis and teletraining and particularly questions about the analytic frame. In this episode we muse about the generational impact of tech use on schemata for thinking and on the future of our profession against the backdrop of AI and therapy apps.2025-02-2653 minTalks On PsychoanalysisBuilding a Space for Thinking - Alberto Carrión García de ParadaWhat challenges face the patient and analyst in constructing the analytic space? How can the analyst navigate the interplay of intense emotional dynamics to enable meaningful transformation?
In this article, titled "The Analyst and the Patient: Building a Space for Thinking", Alberto Carrión García de Parada, delves into the intricate process of building a shared analytic space. Drawing on his extensive experience in child and adolescent psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy, he examines the dynamic interplay of transference and countertransference, highlighting the analyst's active role in containing disturbing emotional and mental content.
Integrating classical theo...2025-01-1629 minTechnology and the MindUser Experience Design Research and technology used to help with neurodevelopmentIn this episode Colleen Cotter, user experience researcher and designer discusses her work on projects of social value and in particular on technology products that support social good including neurodevelopment and that address neurodegenerative disease. She discusses incentives that motivate design and processes that are more beneficial to us all.2024-11-2736 minTechnology and the MindAI and the Unconscious: The Importance of Psychoanalysis in Tech Development with Dr. Luca PossatiDr. Possati describes he work at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis and AI. He discusses the mutual influence of tech on humans and vice versa, the importance of unconscious processes and interdisciplinary collaboration across fields to produce ethical AI systems.2024-10-2958 minTalks On PsychoanalysisThe Desire and Passion for a Child - Dr. Patricia Alkolombre
In today’s context of reproductive technologies, one has the idea that we might have more control over the process of reproduction. No longer necessarily linked to sexuality, reproduction and parenthood can occur in a multitude of ways, pushing the boundaries of what was not thought to be possible or acceptable. These biotechnical innovations have not only changed the ways that one can become a parent but also necessarily suggest new areas for psychoanalytic theorizing.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Patricia Alkolombre discusses how the desire for a child has become in some cases, the passion for a chi...2024-08-2128 minTechnology and the MindCritical Sexuality Studies and SexTech with Dr. Michelle MarzulloIn this episode, Dr. Michelle Marzullo, chair of the Department of Critical Sexuality Studies at CIIS discusses her work and the importance of technology in sexuality studies. She provides a queer, intersectional and critical lens and shares a few projects she and her students are working on at the intersection of sexuality studies and technology.2024-07-0458 min
Talks On PsychoanalysisFreud, his passion for travel, and its impact on psychoanalytic discoveries - Patricia O'Donnell
What is it that is so captivating about travel? In Freud’s travel letters chronicling his experiences over many decades in different countries, there are the seeds of the advance of non-clinical experiences of psychoanalysis. Travel takes us to another place with unfamiliar surroundings so that we might see anew that which we may otherwise take for granted. Awe and beauty are often experiences we have while abroad. And these are described by Freud over and over again in these captivating letters.
In this podcast episode, Dr. Patricia O’Donnell discusses Freud’s travel letters and his mu...2024-06-2522 minTalks On PsychoanalysisInanimate Objects in the Frame - Jacqueline GodfrindWhat roles do the inanimate objects in the psychoanalyst’s office play in the treatment? Paintings on the walls, bookcases, armchairs, carpets, sculptures, and of course, the couch are simultaneously objects of external reality which are part of the frame, and they may also become part of the internal reality of the patient. Can these objects have an important effect on the progress and process of analytic treatment? It is these questions that Jacqueline Godfrind will address in this podcast episode.
Starting from theories of objects as autistic, transitional, resemblances and fetishized, put forth by Tusti...2024-05-2222 minTechnology and the MindHuman Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic InvestigationsIn this episode long time friends and collaborators, Drs. Richard Frankel and Victor Krebs carry on a decade long conversation in person and in google docs resulting in the book, Human Virtuality and Digital Life, a delightful and rich discussion of the philosophical understandings of virtuality as well as implications for the psyche. Their discussions are far reaching and deep leveraging myths, critical thought, important philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists. In the end we discuss AI, thinking, dreaming, and the generational divide and post-truth political landscape that is fueled by technology.
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Dreaming in the Digital Age...2024-05-181h 00Technology and the MindThe Importance of Professional Advocacy for Mental Health Treatment Choice in the Times of Ubiquitous TechnologyIn this episode Dr. Linda Michaels, Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAn) discusses grassroots efforts to provide public information and advocacy for therapies of depth, insight and relationship. She discusses the role of marketing as a major source of information to the public about treatment options for mental health. Further she emphasizes that psychoanalysts and psychodynamically-oriented clinicians should advocate and educate the public, particularly while there are significant strategic interests in among tech apps, investors and insurance companies in shaping the marketplace for consumers.2024-04-021h 06Technology and the MindAre the Kids Alright? Motivations, Decisions and Values Embedded in Educational and Consumer TechnologiesIn this episode Catherine Saldutti, founder of EduChange, an innovative EdTech firm that is re-engineering formal secondary academic systems for increased equity describes the values and motivations that drive her team's design of The Integrated Science Program. This program creates the conditions for expert STEM learning. She discusses the power of systems thinking, circular economic principles, sustainable practices and the value of the unknown, creativity and a focus on process. In this episode we philosophize about what technology is, how it is impacting us, we discuss its implications for teaching and learning and for adolescent development and we draw connections...2024-03-091h 03Technology and the MindDr. Alexander Stein on Psychoanalysis as a Technology for Positive Change and Influence at ScaleDr. Stein discusses his work consulting with executives and teams as a psychodynamic strategy consultant. He discusses the impact psychoanalysis can have on people and dynamics between people within business contexts. He centers decision making and caring in his work and muses about AI and the future from the perspective of the C-suite advisor role. His work is ultimately about how psychodynamic strategy consulting can be used as an intervention for social good and business success at scale.
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...2024-01-231h 09Technology and the MindMorgan Venable on big tech, its consequences and the futureMorgan Venable, inventor, product developer and former Ideo, Google, Microsoft and Amazon senior tech product developer discusses his current projects including his work on the Datahand, an ergonomic keyboard that prevents and heals repetitive stress injuries from keyboarding and the future of tech including its impact on our mental health and social landscape.2023-12-0555 minTechnology and the MindDr. Paul Slovic on feelings and decision making at the societal level including Technology and Political ApplicationsDr. Paul Slovic, decision scientist and accomplished academic and researcher discusses human decision making, judgements, and risk with an emphasis on the role of feelings as applied to genocide, war, smoking, advertising, addiction and nuclear arms.2023-11-161h 11
Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationshipsS17E8: Why People Cheat w/ Dr. Nicolle ZapienOnce a cheater, always a cheater? We’re finding out as we break down the psychology of infidelity with Dr. Nicolle Zapien about the psychology of cheating and why people cheat in the first place. We’re discussing the main reasons for infidelity, why certain people may be more prone to cheating than others, and how to determine if reconciliation is in the cards (or not).Learn more about Dr. Zapien: https://nicollegottfriedzapien.com/Follow us @dateablepodcast, @juliekrafchickh and @nonplatonic. Check out our website for more content. Also listen to our other podcast Exit Interview w/ i...2023-10-181h 02Technology and the MindStephen Cognetta on working in tech and the futureIn this episode we interview Stephen Cognetta, CEO of Exponent, a firm that helps tech workers land their dream job. We discuss his career development including running HackMentalHealth, the world's largest mental health hackathon, his thoughts on the future of tech and the role psychoanalysis might play in helping tech workers to develop.2023-10-1139 minTechnology and the MindSecond Season Trailer EpisodeThis the a short trailer describing the focus of season 2 of Technology and the Mind. In this season we broaden our discussions by interviewing leaders in the tech sector, techno ethicists, business consultants, venture capitalists, politicians, philosophers and academics in dialogue with psychoanalysts about consumer tech products and services and the impacts these may have on our minds, relationships and society. We will consider the unconscious dynamics we may be participating in individually and socially via technology and whether or not these are important to analyze.2023-07-2805 min
Psychoanalysis On and Off the CouchFrom Technology to Psychoanalysis with Nicolle Zapien, PhD (Oakland)"Technology is based on the premise that there can be an optimization of things through algorithmic understanding. ‘Ones and zeros’ data can be manipulated and thus produce an optimal outcome which is a lovely idea for certain kinds of things. It's not necessarily, in my opinion, the best idea for the psyche or for happiness or for developing a life that's meaningful. I think a psychological mindset is slightly different in that our colleagues are really concerned with being with the person, making meanings, suffering sometimes through difficult things, so there isn't just an automatic assumption as there is in t...2023-07-2249 minTechnology and the MindDr. Kimberlyn Leary on Race, Bias, Belonging, and Consumer TechnologyIn this episode Dr. Leary discusses psychoanalytic ideas about race, bias, equity and belonging and how technology may play a role in how people and our communities experience race and belonging.2023-06-1045 minTechnology and the MindDr. Jeremy Soh on Creativity, Dreams and TechnologyDr. Jeremy Soh discusses creativity and dreams - what they are, why we should care about them and how technology may impact our capacity to be creative and to dream.2023-06-0549 minTechnology and the MindDr. Isabel Millar on AI, Consciousness and SexDr. Millar shifts the question of is AI conscious to the question of does AI enjoy. She explores areas of sexuality, consent and suffering in AI and suggests that Kantian ethics and Lacanian notions of jouissance may be helpful in understanding how we might secure freedom and privacy as we relate to AI.2023-05-0448 minTechnology and the MindDr. Patricia Gherovici on Perversion and PornDr. Patricia Gherovici discusses perversion, sexuality and porn. She discusses the use of technology and muses about its impact on our ability to dream and imagine.2023-04-1049 minTechnology and the MindDr. Mitchell Wilson on materiality, embodiment and proximity in psychoanalysisDr. Mitchell Wilson discusses a few cases that illustrate the importance of materiality, embodiment and proximity in psychoanalysis and muses about the meanings for our profession and the future.2023-03-0745 minTechnology and the MindDr. Todd Essig on teleanalysis and tech-mediated relatingDr. Todd Essig discusses the differences between teleanalysis and traditional in person psychoanalysis and how this may be useful in understanding tech-mediated relating outside of the consulting relationship.2023-01-2540 minTechnology and the MindProfessor Jan Abram on Winnicott, playing, the use of an object and video gamesIn this episode, Professor Jan Abram discusses the Winnicottian notion of playing and the use of an object and how these ideas apply to our thinking about video game addiction and liveliness in our relationships.2022-12-2245 minTechnology and the MindDr. Tom Wooldridge on Narcissism and Consumer TechnologiesDr. Tom Wooldridge discusses narcissism and how consumer technology can influence our sensitivities to narcissistic injury in both positive and negative ways. He offer several interesting examples of the use of technology in clinical cases.2022-11-0134 minTechnology and the MindDr. Stephen Lugar on the Kleinian Notion of the Depressive Position and the Cruel Optimization MindsetDr. Stephen Lugar discusses the Kleinian notion of the depressive position, why it is of value and how consumer technology may facilitate a mindset of what he calls cruel optimization which then impacts our capacities to value and achieve the depressive position.2022-09-2341 minTechnology and the MindDr. Catherine Mallouh on Negative Capability in the Context of Ubiquitous TechnologyAn interview with Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Dr. Catherine Mallouh about negative capability, what it is, why it is important and how it is developed. Dr. Mallouh will also consider how consumer technology may impact the development and maintenance of negative capability and creativity.2022-09-2236 min
Philosophy Gets PersonalZapien gets personal with marital affairs, technology and psychoanalysisWhy do we cheat? Is technology ruining our lives? Can we really be happy in this life? In this episode Dr. Susi Ferarello is joined by Dr. Nicolle Zapien to discuss about technology, the way it affects our personal life and what psychoanalysis can do to make our life better. Dr. Nicolle Zapien is a licensed clinician with two decades of experience. She is currently a candidate training at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC). She is a member of the PINC visiting scholar committee and its ethics committee. Dr. Zapien recently won an IPA research grant to...2022-09-1144 minTechnology and the MindDr. Fernando Castrillon on Desire, Lack, Jouissance and Consumer TechnologyAn interview with Lacanian psychoanalyst, Dr. Fernando Castrillon about the Lacanian notions of desire, lack and jouissance and how these ideas can help us to think about our use of consumer technology.2022-09-0156 minTechnology and the MindDr. Nicolle Zapien on Why Psychoanalysis and TechnologyGuest host, Dr. Susi Ferrarello, a philosopher, and ethicist, will interview the host of Technology and the Mind, Dr. Nicolle Zapien about what psychoanalysis might have to do with technology and how both disciplines might benefit from being in dialogue.2022-09-0138 minTechnology and the MindIntroducing: Technology and the MindTechnology and the Mind is a podcast dedicated to exploring the intersection between contemporary psychoanalytic theory and consumer technology use. Each month we interview a practicing psychoanalyst who will explore and apply what we know about key psychoanalytic concepts of the mind and relationships to technology use cases. We will get underneath the conscious, obvious dimensions of these issues and we hope to stimulate your imagination and help you to become more curious about your relationship to the technology products and services you use. We hope you will join us on Technology and the Mind.2022-05-0303 min
The Why FactorWhy do we cheat on our partners?Infidelity is seen as the ultimate betrayal, and many relationships are brought down by it. Around the world most of us agree that it’s wrong for a married person to have an affair, but that doesn’t seem to stop us: why? The answer could lie in our DNA. In this week’s Why Factor, Phoebe Keane hears how research into the mating habits of prairie voles could shed light on the extra marital affairs of humans and explores how we make decisions in the heat of the moment. Guests:
Professor Steven Phelps, University of Texas at Aus...2019-11-1124 min
CIIS Public ProgramsNicolle Zapien: Reframing InfidelityCIIS Professor and psychologist Nicolle Zapien discusses her recent research into cases of infidelity, and how we can reframe the way we think about infidelity and sexuality in our relationships.2019-03-211h 00
CIIS Public ProgramsJ. Stuart Ablon: The Science Behind Changing MindsIn this episode, psychologist and author Stuart Ablon is joined in conversation by Nicolle Zapien, CIIS’s Dean of Professional Psychology and Health, to explore the science of how people change.2018-08-291h 04
CIIS Public ProgramsJo Piazza: How To Be MarriedAuthor and journalist Jo Piazza is joined in conversation by CIIS professor Nicolle Zapien to explore wedding and marriage rituals, customs, and traditions throughout the world.2017-08-3151 min
Women In-Depth: Conversations about the Inner Lives of Women18: Crossing the Line: How an Extramarital Affair Begins with Nicolle Zapien, PhD, MFCMy guest today is Dr. Nicolle Zapien, a psychotherapist, certified sex therapist, and college professor from San Francisco. Our topic today is an important one because it affects so many people. We’re discussing the experience of infidelity in relationships. Join us! You can read the full show notes at www.lourdesviado.com.2016-10-2638 min