St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute

The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Podcast: Episode 2. Our host is Anene Tressler-Hauschultz and today we have joining us: Stuart Ozar, MD & Lynn Wolfe, MA, PLPC. The mission of the institute is to advance psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought through training, treatment, education, and research to benefit the mental health of our diverse community. Joining the host is Dr. Stuart Ozar, a psychiatrist in private practice in the St. Louis area. Dr. Ozar also serves as the medical director for the Institute’s Schiele Clinic. The clinic is a sliding scale fee clinic based in St. Louis. Also, joining the podcast is Lynn Wolfe, a provisionally licensed counselor who is completing her practicum program in June of this year. More Information about the Schiele Clinic HERE. A transcript of this episode is located HERE.

Between You & I: Episode 1. Our host is Anene Tressler-Hauschultz and today we have joining us: Chester Smith, M.Ed, LPC. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Smith speaks on what to look for when finding a therapist, his private practice, what it means to be a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist, as well as his upcoming Cohn lecture on April 22, 2022. Listen to hear more. More Information about the I.H. Cohn Lecture: Trauma – How We are Damaged & What Can Be Done About It HERE

https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Empathy-William-Kelly-MD-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Empathy William Kelly, MD Empathy: In all twenty-three volumes of Freud’s works the term only appears fourteen times. However he regarded it as basic to the process and the practice of psychoanalysis. He referred to empathy as a “mechanism by means of which we are able to take up any attitude at all towards another’s mental life.

https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Self-Psychology-Kelly-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Self Psychology William Kelly, MD Self psychology is a relatively new theory within the field of psychoanalysis. The name was chosen because of gradual recognition that the difficulties some people experience have to do with self-esteem regulation and maintenance of a solid sense of self in time and space, often referred to as self cohesion. Previously, these were considered to be narcissistic problems and usually not amenable to psychoanalysis. Like all psychoanalytic theories, self psychology attempts to explain human motivation. Over a thirty-year period, Heinz Kohut and other self psychologists evolved a new perception, a new understanding, of what patients were trying to tell us.

 We invite you to listen to our presentation… The Many Faces of Eros: Through the Eyes of a Midsummer Night’s Dream Commentary by Jacqueline Langley, PhD Originally Presented June 3, 2016, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis A Midsummer Night’s Dream Learn more about the connections between psychoanalytic thought and the dramatic arts: Click HERE.  

 We invite you to listen to our presentation… The Many Faces of Eros: Through the Eyes of a Midsummer Night’s Dream Commentary by Jacqueline Langley, PhD Originally Presented June 3, 2016, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis A Midsummer Night’s Dream Learn more about the connections between psychoanalytic thought and the dramatic arts: Click HERE.  

https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Altman-Podium-Mike-Edited-Audio.m4a.m4a Understanding Race, Social Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens Lecture with Neil Altman, PhD This lecture was an interactive dialogue, focusing on the ways the social categories of race, social class, and culture can be understood from a psychoanalytic point of view. The evening looked at the way “whiteness” is constructed in U.S. society, along with the implications for the racial and social class status of various ethnic groups in this country — and explored the intersection of racial, social class, and cultural categories, both in psychotherapy and in daily life.  

http://systems-strategies.com/stlpi/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Childhood-Trauma-Ruiz-Podcast.m4a Childhood Trauma in Cultural Context Lecture with Gabriel Ruiz, LCPC Today’s children face enormous challenges resulting in both acute and chronic traumatic effects.  The sources of trauma are myriad: community violence such as gangs, school shootings, and police brutality; war, terrorism, and refugee status; physical and/or sexual abuse; loss of a parent/significant adult;      parental/family violence; chronic neglect; digital/media overexposure, and more. When looking at what trauma “is” and how it is “experienced” we must look at the cultural context of the child and family.  When it comes to processing trauma, a child’s culture typically falls on a continuum ranging from the traumatic disruption of a child’s individual mind to the disruption of an entire community’s way of life.  As teachers, clinicians, and professionals, what do we do when it is not only the child’s mind, but the child’s entire cultural way of functioning that is overwhelmed by trauma?  Further, how do cultures that privilege a collective mindset mediate childhood trauma when compared to more individualistic cultures? This lecture helps identify what type and level of trauma is being experienced by a child and provide a working model of how to begin intervening in a child and family’s life affected by trauma respectful of the child and family’s cultural context.

Film Analysis: Il Postino (The Postman) with Gerald Izenberg, PhD and Oren Izenberg, PhD http://systems-strategies.com/stlpi/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Il-Postino-podcast.m4a The Postman is about a simple man named Mario who discovers through his meeting with an extraordinary man, the poet Neruda, that he too is extraordinary. In its affectionate telling, The Postman comes as close as any film to uncovering the working heart of poetry, how it need not be arcane, and how

http://systems-strategies.com/stlpi/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Intergenerational-Conflict-Kelly-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Intergenerational Conflict in Family Business William Kelly, MD Intergenerational conflict is a heavy sounding concept. History is replete with examples from Abraham and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Cain and Abel, Hamlet, etc. One of the more compelling stories from a psychoanalytic perspective is that of Oedipus Rex, a tale by Sophocles believed to have some basis in fact. Family business is often like a kingdom where there are rights of succession, betrayal, even seduction, etc. Is this, however, a healthy resolution and transition of power and/or leadership? There are many forces at work in every human family and probably the greatest of these is the desire to grow up, to fully become a person in one’s own right.

Film Analysis: Vertigo https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Vertigo-Volney-Gay.m4awith Volney Gay, PhD     A Hitchcock classic, an intricate psychological thriller, this movie is all about dreams.  Dreams are the stuff that psychoanalysts can’t stop thinking about.  Freud began the whole science with his Reflections on Dreams.  The dream is a puzzle, a rebus – we don’t know exactly how to solve it, neither does the hero in the film.  

Film Analysis: Shortbus https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shortbus-Audio.m4awith Gary Hirshberg, MSW, LCSW     John Cameron Mitchell, the director of the explosive transgender rock musical, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” broadens his investigation into sexuality with Shortbus (2007).  Shortbus is an exploration into the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the humorous and tragic intersections between love and sex.

Film Analysis: Shirley Valentine https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Shirley-Valentine.m4awith K. Lynne Moritz, MD   Shirley Valentine — a funny film, a bittersweet film an all-too-true-to-life film… This film compellingly captures an actual moment in the life cycle — the love cycle — of many women. Some might call it a midlife crisis and there are indeed lots of midlife issues here:  the children have left, Shirley is noticing the first effects of gravity, she is realizing she is on the downward slope of life, only a little time left, only one life to live.  Is this little life all there will be for her?    

Film Analysis: Revolutionary Road https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Revolutionary-Road-Cirio.m4awith Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW     Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a couple living uncomfortably in the suburbs.  The story is set in 1955.  World War II, and the memory of service in the European theater, looms in the background for the men.  Frank and April believe themselves to be superior to their friends and neighbors.  Frank has contempt for his job, and most of his co-workers.  April felt she was destined for better things.  The life they have today was not planned, it just happened, and both regard it as temporary.  

Film Analysis: Pulp Fiction https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Pulp-Fiction.m4awith Andrew Chirchirillo, PhD   Pulp Fiction is a movie about lowlifes. It presents us with three of the oldest chestnuts in the world:  Two hitmen out on a job; a boxer who is supposed to throw a fight; a guy who’s supposed to take out the boss’s lady.   The characters in these three stories are linked by their connection to a crime boss, Marsellus, and framed by the story of a young couple in the midst of robbing a diner.  

Film Analysis: Pan’s Labyrinth https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pans-Labyrinth-audio.m4awith Jacqueline Langley, PhD   Winner of three Oscars, with another 63 international wins & 57 nominations, Pan’s Labyrinth is described by one critic as “an epic, poetic vision in which the grim realities of war are matched and mirrored by a descent into an underworld populated by fearsomely beautiful monsters.” Set in civil war-torn Spain, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when along with her pregnant mother, moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Retreating from reality into her own imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon these imaginative escapes begin to blur the lines of experience, as Ofelia finds herself at the tipping point in a vivid battle between the whimsical and the nightmarish; between good and evil.  

Film Analysis: Night on Earth https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Night-on-Earth-Feinberg.m4awith Bernard Feinberg, MD   A 1991 film by Jim Jarmusch.  While a pleasant conversation delights, a really interesting conversation changes the participants.  Night on Earth shows us five vignettes about a cabbie and passenger set in five cities across the globe in a single night.  As a result of their interactions on the way to their specific geographic destinations, each pair winds up in emotional places they could never have anticipated.  Jarmusch’s pairs amaze, seduce, antagonize and shock.  It’s a  ride you’ll be glad you took.  Stars Gena Rowlands, Winona Ryder, Roberto Benigni, Rosie Perez.    

Film Analysis: Margot at the Wedding https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Margot-at-the-Wedding.m4awith Michael Deal, MA, LPC Margot at the Wedding is a dark and, at times, hilarious drama directed and written by Noah Baumbach.  The story is centered around an upcoming wedding, as Margot and her son travel to attend the wedding of younger sister Pauline and Malcolm.  The film’s primary focus examines what occurs between siblings when unresolved childhood issues follow them into adulthood.  This film takes an uncomfortably close, but realistic, look at how both hostility and love coexist towards our siblings.  Stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black.    

Film Analysis: Last Tango In Paris https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Last-Tango-in-Paris-Podcast.m4awith Gerald Izenberg, PhD   A man and a woman — complete strangers– meet and try to encounter one another without all the accumulated baggage of their past identities.

Film Analysis: The Kids are All Right https://www.stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/The-Kids-are-All-Right.m4awith Lenita Newberg, MSW, LCSW Nic and Jules have been raising their teenage kids with many typical bumps, bruises, and achievements.  But when the kids decide to meet their sperm donor, new issues get raised for the family.  Commitments, love, desire, and conflicts are old issues in families, but the twists can change over time.  This touching comedy takes a look at how family is defined and the changing nature of relationships.  Directed by Lisa Cholodenko.  Stars Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo