Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

'Hysteria, heredity and anti-Semitism: Freud's challenge to the Jewish stereotype' by Estelle Roith

'Hysteria, heredity and anti-Semitism: Freud's challenge to the Jewish stereotype'

A Talk by Estelle Roith

Recorded at the Freud Museum London on 28 February 2012. Estelle Roith is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and trained at the London Centre for psychotherapy. She is the author of the of The Riddle of Freud: Jewish influences on his theory of female sexuality published in 1987, in the New Library of Psychoanalysis. Her recent work includes:Ishmael and Isaac: An Enduring Conflict, in Sibling Relationships'by Coles, 2006, Dr. Roith is currently working on a study that proposes that significant events in Freud's time, overlooked until now, have been an important influence in his life and in the development of psychoanalysis.

Photography and Freud: From Roma-Amor to Erotic Saturn

An Illustrated Hampstead Authors Society Talk by Mary Bergstein

Sound recorded at the Freud Museum on 13 February 2012 Mary Bergstein, gave an illustrated talk at the Freud Museum, introduced by HAS Chaiman Zsuzsanna Ardó. The talk explored Freud's visual imagination in terms of the photography he (and his patients) pondered. It is important that Freud believed repressed memories were unconscious, and that the most potent memories and desires would emerge in psychoanalysis from deep inside, via dreams. In the period from Freud's childhood to his old-age ruminations, several kinds of photographs were prominent: portraits, psychiatric illustrations, archaeological photography, and ethnographic documentation. These images along with the erotic photography and films of the era, that Mary Bernstein will introduce, paralleled the phenomena of Freudian memories and dreams. Mary Bergstein is a scholar of Italian Renaissance sculpture, painting, and architecture. She has also published widely on the cultural history of photography, which includes Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art (2010). Bergstein is interested in the social history of art and visual culture, and has written on topics from Donatello and Michelangelo, to “reproductive” photography, to advertising art and contemporary manufactured dolls such as Barbie and Bratz. The Hampstead Authors Society (HAS) is a transcultural, transdisciplinary creative society, connecting ideas, people and places. HAS venues and partners include the Royal Institute, the British Film Academy (BAFTA), Nehru Centre, Jewish Cultural Centre, French Cultural Institute, Riverside Studio, Everyman Cinemas, Artsdepot Gallery, La Notte Blu di Firenze, Casa della Creativita, 12 Star Gallery, Europe House.

The Graving Tool: Michael Pennington in conversation with Philip Franks

Recorded at the Freud Museum London on 8 January 2012

The Graving Tool: A Series of Talks Hosted by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Michael Pennington in conversation with Philip Franks

This year playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is Writer in Residence at the Freud Museum, generously funded by theLeverhulme Trust. Timberlake Wertenbaker is an acclaimed and prolific playwright whose works have been performed and studied all over the world. Her play Our Country’s Good is an A level text and won the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year award in 1988. She is also a translator, translating and adapting plays for performance from French (examples include Marivaux’s False Admissions, Anouilh’s Wild Orchids and Racine’s Phedre) and from classical Greek (examples include Sophocles’ Elektra and Euripides’ Hippolytus.) Her recent translation of Racine’s Britannicus received rapturous reviews at Wilton’s Music Hall. She is using her residency at the Freud Museum to complete her latest play, The Suicide of Colonel A. Ajaxinspired by Sophocles’ Ajax. Timberlake is organising The Graving Tool, a series of conversations between herself and leading theatre practitioners probing how they create complex characters. Timberlake will ask how actors and directors explore the physical and mental makeup of a character on stage. How does an actor enter into the psychology of a character, particularly in a new play? What physical manifestation, including habits or tics do they come up with and how is this used in the performance? What do they read, particularly when acting a disturbed character? Where do they find this in themselves? How are actors affected by the personalities they inhabit? Michael Pennington is a British director and actor, most of his career has been on stage in works such as Hamlet(RSC), Oedipus the King, The Entertainer and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. In 1986, Pennington and director Michael Bogdanov together founded the English Shakespeare Company. As joint artistic director, he starred in the company's inaugural productions of The Henrys and, in 1987, the seven-play history cycle of The Wars of the Roses, which toured worldwide. He appeared in the 2005 film Fragile, co-starring Calista Flockhart and is the author of the book Are You There, Crocodile? which combines biographical material about the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov with a narration of Pennington's efforts to write a one-man play about Chekhov. In April 2004 he became the second actor, after Harley Granville-Barker in 1925, to deliver the British Academy's annual Shakespeare lecture. The lecture was entitledBarnadine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail. Philip Franks is an English director and actor, he has directed many plays including Kafka's Dick and The Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Nottingham Playhouse), Hamlet(Greenwich and tour), The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Greenwich and West End), Private Lives and The Heiress (Royal National Theatre) and The White Devil(Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith). Franks is best known for his roles as tax inspector Cedric "Charley" Charlton in the British sitcom The Darling Buds of May, and Sgt. Raymond Craddock on Heartbeat. He has also made guest appearances in Absolutely Fabulous andFoyle's War. Other appearances include the TV miniseriesBleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Buddha of Suburbia, The Green Man and To Serve Them All My Days. Franks is also a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Richard Crow - Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic (extract), 20.4.2011

Phantasmic voices of Radio Schreber: Richard Crow, Gabriel Séverin, Anna Teresa Scheer, Nick Couldry, Adam Bohman, Douglas Park and others who remain obscure and unknown...

Radio Schreber, Soliloques for Schziophonic voices investigates

the recurring theme of ‘hearing voices’ in sonic and literary

works by paying homage to Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My

Nervous Illness. Written in 1903 during his second mental illness

at Sonnenstein Public asylum, the Memoirs detail an alternate

delusional world famously analysed by Freud in his Psycho-analytic

Notes on An Autobiographical account of a case of paranoia

(Dementia Paranoides) published in 1911.

For the centenary of Schreber’s death (and Freud’s Psychoanalytic

Notes), a sound performance by artist Richard Crow

will give voice to Schreber’s visionary text through a specially

created composition that will be premiered at the Freud Museum

London. As a continuation of his project, Imaginary Hospital

Radio, Richard Crow will work in collaboration with sound-poet

Gabriel Séverin in exploring a sonic tableaux of phantasmic and

disembodied voices embedded in the text as well as in its physical

and imaginary locations inhabited by Schreber.

Presented by Sound Threshold. Curated by Lucia Farinati with the assistance of Rita Correddu.

Recorded by Colin Potter.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 4 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 4 of 4: Estela Welldon - The Dangers of First Love This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Estela Welldon The first love between mother and baby will forever mark future encounters and relationships. Mother-baby love has a unique characteristic in that both parties are involved not only psychologically but also biologically. The possibility exists of a mutual and reciprocal experience of blissful and satisfying union. The expectation is of ‘unconditional love’. This is the situation in the perfect world, however things are not that simple and uncomplicated. In this talk we shall be addressing failures of that 1st love leading to violent relationships and escalating to forensic cases. Using clinical examples from both forensic and non-forensic psychotherapy this paper will show how the first experiences of love mark people for future love encounters, and how new patterns of loving can be established.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 3 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 3 of 4: Anna Furse - When I touch the keys my flesh melts: On writing Don Juan.Who? This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Anna Furse The theatre production Don Juan.Who?/Don Juan.Kdo? (Athletes of the Heart with Mladinsko, Ljubljana and Riverside Studios 2008) was created in an especially assembled private 'cyberstudio' where geographically dispersed collaborators wrote confessionally and anonymously for 18 months to produce a performance text on the Don Juan archetype. An online masquerade, the project aimed to get under the skin of PC and reveal how the nomadic, priapic, irresponsible seducer lurks in women - and men's - minds. As the company met weekly to write on this theme, the actual erotic of the writing process began to reveal itself, as well the pleasure in cross-dressing at will, being interrupted, merging with others, and getting lost in the 'ballroom' of cyberspace.

ADULT LOVE AND ITS ROOTS IN INFANCY - Part 1 of 4

Day Conference at the Tavistock Centre, London on 3rd December 2011 - a four part podcast. Part 1 of 4: Lisa Appignanesi (Chair) - All About Love &  Introductory Remarks and Bernard Barnett Psychoanalytic Love, Real Love and Love in Anna Karenina. This conference investigated adult love by bringing together the worlds of psychoanalysis, literature, and performance. The most sublime, exhilarating and painful of emotions, love puzzles the intellect and almost defies description. It motivates the best and worst of us, overwhelming us with the ferocity of its demands, while thwarted love and perverse love are at the heart of much violent behaviour and neurotic suffering. Psychoanalysis unlocks the mystery of love by tracing its roots to childhood. The conference will be of interest to anyone involved in adult psychotherapy or counselling, and anyone who has ever been in love. ABSTRACTS Bernard Barnett In my paper I will discuss the nature of love (and to a lesser extent of hate) and take a fresh look at the psychoanalytic relationship and especially the the paradox of psychoanalytic love. I will draw on the work of Freud, Winnicott, Shakespeare, Hardy and especially Tolstoy and with the use of material from one of my own patients, I will explore a few of the many different kinds of love and arrive at some tentative conclusions.

Playing with dynamite: A personal approach to forensic psychotherapy A talk by Estela Welldon

Playing with dynamite: A personal approach to forensic psychotherapy

A talk by Estela Welldon at the Freud Museum on 10 November 2011.

Estela Welldon discusses her personal understanding of perversions, violence and criminality based on her many years experience at the Portman Clinic and her latest bookPlaying with Dynamite. 'Estela Welldon has taught a whole generation of clinicians to question their idealisation of the mother-child relation. In this superb new study, she challenges both popular and professional preconceptions about perversion, violence, and crime. Drawing on years of research and clinical practice, she shows us the importance of thinking before blaming, and gives us the clinical and conceptual tools to do so. A brave and deeply humane work, this invites us to go beyond gut moralism and to enter the minds of those it is always easier to incarcerate than to understand.’ Darian Leader, psychoanalyst Estela Welldon is a psychotherapist who worked for many years at the Portman Clinic and in private practice. She is the founder of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She is most famous for her book Mother, Madonna Whore: The Idealization and Denigration of Motherhood (1988) which quashed the myth that ‘perversion’ was largely a male preserve and opened up a whole new field of therapeutic enquiry. She is the author ofSadomasochism (2002) and principal editor of A Practical Guide to Forensic Psychotherapy (1997). Her latest publication is Playing with Dynamite: A Personal Approach to the Understanding of Perversions, Violence and Criminality (Karnac, 2011)

Author's Talk: Marilyn's Last Sessions Michel Schneider in Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi

Author's Talk: Marilyn's Last Sessions

Michel Schneider in Conversation with Lisa Appignanesi

A special event from the Freud Museum London, held at the Anna Freud Centre on 1 November 2011. 4.25 am, 5 August 1962, West Los Angeles Police Department ‘Marilyn Monroe has died of an overdose’, a man’s voice says dully. And when the stunned policeman asked ‘What?’, the same voice struggled to repeat ‘Marilyn Monroe has died. She has committed suicide.’ In the three years running up to this phonecall, psychoanalyst Dr Ralph Greenson became the most important person in Marilyn Monroe’s life. They met almost every day. He was her analyst, her friend and her confessor. He was the last person to see her alive, and the first to see her dead. In this highly acclaimed novel, based on the transcripts of their meetings, Marilyn’s last years are brilliantly recreated. It is the story of the world’s most famous and elusive actress, told partially in her own words. The book raises questions about the increasingly blurred lines between fact and fiction, as well as giving powerful insight into the workings of Hollywood and its close links with psychoanalysis. Michel Schneider has written on psychoanalysis, Baudelaire, Proust, Schumann and Glenn Gould. His essay collection, Morts Imaginaires (Grasset, 2003), won the Médicis Essay Award. He lives in France. Lisa Appignanesi is a writer, broadcaster and chair of trustees of the Freud Museum London. Her most recent book All about Love, is an intimate and illuminating look at how love shapes our lives and our world.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 4 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 4 of 4 Session 4: Training John Heaton: Wittgenstein and the implications for the training of psychotherapists. Del Loewenthal and Robert Snell: A training in post-existentialism - towards a therapy without foundations. Bice Benvenuto - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 3 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 3 of 4 Session 3: Theory and Research Julia Cayne: Researching the between as unknown: Post-phenomenology for practice, theory and research. Phil Mollon - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 2 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 2 of 4 Session 2: Therapeutic Practice Tom Cotton: Laing and ‘the treatment is the way we treat people’ Rhiannon Thomas: Language, experience and misrepresentation: The case of Lola Voss Haya Oakley - Respondent. followed by a group discussion.

Psychotherapy without foundations? A conference podcast, part 1 of 4

On Saturday 29th October 2011, the Freud Museum Public Programme held a one day conference, “Psychotherapy without foundations?” at the Anna Freud Centre, 12 Maresfield Gardens, London, NW3 5SH. Podcast 1 of 4 Session 1:  Introduction Del Loewenthal: On the very idea of a therapy without foundations. Robert Hinshelwood - Respondent followed by group discussion.

Video Introduction: Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar.

An introduction to the special event - Victor Ross in conversation with Michael Molnar. On 6 May 1926, at a party in Bergasse 19, Vienna's psychoanalytic establishment turned out to celebrate Sigmund Freud's 70th Birthday. Guests came from far afield: Princess Marie Bonaparte from Paris, Ernest Jones from London, Ernst Simmel from Berlin. Also present were Dorothy Burlingham and Eva Rosenfeld, at that time as close to Anna Freud as a sister and Eva's young son, Victor Ross. 85 years on, Freud scholar and former Freud Museum Director, Michael Molnar talks to Victor Ross about his life and relations to the Freud family. This is a rare and fascinating opportunity to hear recollections from someone who knew the Freud family well, and has personal memories of the Freuds both when they were living in Vienna and at 20 Maresfield Gardens. This talk is part of the Museum’s 25th anniversary programme and was recorded at the Anna Freud Centre on Wednesday 21st September 2011.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 3 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the third of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 3: Stephen Frosh Psychosocial textuality: Religious identities and textual constructions.

Stephen Frosh is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on psychoanalysis and social theory, including Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis (2005), The politics of psychoanalysis (1999), and Psychoanalysis outside the Clinic: Interventions in Psychosocial Studies (2010). His latest book Feelings (2011) is published by Routledge.

Psychoanalysis, Judaism and Modernity - a conference podcast, Part 2 of 6

Day Conference, Sunday 3 July at the Anna Freud Centre

A day of talks and discussion exploring the links between these three great cultural phenomena, and the lessons that can be learned for the 'post-modern' age of today.

This is the second of six podcasts highlighting the talks and discussions that took place during the day conference.

Podcast 2:

Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve Golem et al

Judit Szekacs and Tom Keve's abstract: Created out of river mud by mediaeval Rabbis and mystically brought to life by them in order to serve, the Golem has metamorphosed more than once. First myth, then tradition, it became an inspiration to the arts and transmuted itself into a symbol - a metaphor for the individual’s need to control the external world, as well as for his quest for autonomy, identity and protection. It symbolises our mystical past as well our technologically dominated future. It is slave. It is protector. It is shorthand for the creative drive and for both the constructive and destructive aspects of human creation; therefore especially relevant in the 21st century.

In our presentations we will discuss historical-cultural aspects of the GOLEM (Tom Keve) and psychoanalytical-clinical dimensions of it.

Alice Anderson in Discussion

Alice Anderson in Discussion with...Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal and Joanna Walker

Artist Alice Anderson, is joined by Darian Leader, Stephanie Rosenthal (Hayward Gallery) and curator Joanna Walker, for an evening discussing themes around her current exhibition Alice Anderson's Childhood Rituals.

Talk: The History of the World in 100 Objects

Why has the British Museum project telling the history of the world in 100 objects captured the public imagination? Why are objects such powerful tools for unlocking historical stories? Find out more about this ground breaking project with Frances Carey from the British Museum.

Talk: Freud at the National Portrait Gallery

Former Freud Museum director Michael Molnar gave this enthralling talk about Sigmund Freud's trip the National Portrait Gallery.

Talk:The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund De Waal

Best selling author Edmund De Waal gave an exclusive talk for the Freud Museum based upon his book "The Hare with the Amber Eyes" - the event was sold out, but you can listen to it here.

Ivan Ward in conversation with Judith Symons

Listen to this exclusive interview between Ivan Ward, education director at the Freud Museum and Judith Symons, psychotherapist and contributing artist to the museums current exhibition "Dreams"

Sigmund Freud in London

The first podcast from the Freud Museum in London, details the time Sigmund Freud spent in London.