What is psychoanalysis and how does it work? Want a clear, impassioned, jargon-free explanation? Look no further: this episode's guest is one of the top communicators of psychoanalytic ideas in the world today.

Psychoanalyst Jonathan Shedler, PhD, is an internationally renowned author, speaker, researcher, and clinical consultant. A psychologist, he is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.

Dr. Shedler is perhaps best known for his article The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, which won worldwide acclaim for establishing psychoanalytic therapy as an evidence-based treatment.

For more information on Dr. Shedler and for the papers discussed in this podcast, visit his website at: www.jonathanshedler.com

On this episode, host Karen Dougherty interviews Psychoanalyst Donald Carveth, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought, Senior Scholar, York University. Professor Carveth is also a Registered Psychotherapist, a Training and Supervising Analyst, Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis, the author of many books and articles on a wide range of subjects, and the host of a popular YouTube channel (link, below).

Listen in as the pair chat about his latest book, Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction (available at Caversham Booksellers), explore his "pugilistic" approach to learning, and spar over the state of psychoanalysis in Canada today.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/@doncarveth

https://www.doncarveth.com

https://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth

Cecilia Taiana PhD, RP, FIPA is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Ottawa. She has authored papers on a wide range of topics and is a former winner of both the Miguel Prados and the Douglas Levin Prizes awarded for papers written by members of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society. Listen in to learn about her upcoming presentations at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna and the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and Sigmund Freud University in Berlin on topics including migration, absence, the role of poetry in psychoanalysis, and the epistemological drive.