Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis Podcasts

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.