Author's Talk: John Launer with Dr Graham MusicWho was Sabina Spielrein? Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the film A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley. Yet she was a woman who overcame family and psychiatric abuse to become an original thinker in the field of sexual psychotherapy.Drawing on ... Show More
May 2023
Freud in Focus 4: Episode 2
This week Tom discusses Freud’s lifelong fascination with archaeology and the ancient world with Professor Miriam Leonard (UCL), one of the curators of our current exhibition, 'Freud's Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire'.
49m 37s
Aug 2023
Scottish rape survivors, Writer Natasha Walter, New research on the Y chromosome and male infertility
A group of women who were raped by the same man are now coming together to campaign for better treatment for survivors of rape in the Scottish justice system. After his sentencing, the women were photographed arm-in-arm outside the high court in Glasgow, having forged a close bon ... Show More
41m 43s
Mar 2019
RU24: DR DANY NOBUS Part 1: Psychoanalysis, Education, Philosophy, Psychology, University
Professor Dany Nobus is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and former Chair of the Freud Museum London. Main research interests include the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry, and the intersections between psychoanalysis, philosophy and ... Show More
54m 29s
Sep 2023
EP353 - Unraveling Male Sexuality: Desire, Drive, and the Dynamics of Intimacy
<p>Welcome to episode 353 of Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to be speaking with <a href="https://www.drericfitz.com/" rel="nofollow">Dr. Eric FitzMedrud</a>. In this episode, we discuss Dr. FitzMedrud's book <em>The Better Man</em>, exploring the intricacies of consen ... Show More
44m 57s
Jul 2020
RU97: RENDERING DR KEVIN VOLKAN UNCONSCIOUS, PSYCHOANALYSIS, EDUCATION, MUSIC, WRITING, CLINIC WORK
Dr. Kevin Volkan is a founding faculty member and Professor of Psychology at California State University Channel Islands, where he researches and teaches courses in psychopathology and atypical behaviors, personality theory, as well as Nazi Germany, and Eastern philosophy. He als ... Show More
1h 14m
Sep 2021
'Typical Girls' - a new play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, set in a women's prison; Coming out at 44; Student counselling.
As if one new play opening wasn’t enough pressure Olivier award-winning playwright, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, has two this month. ‘Typical Girls’, set in a women’s prison, opened this week at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, and tomorrow ‘Mum’ begins previewing at the Theatre Royal ... Show More
57m 43s
Sep 2023
Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)
In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, wanted to start a revo ... Show More
44m 53s
<div> <p><span>Welcome to episode 197 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I'm delighted to welcome </span><span>Dr.</span><span> Stephen Diamond to the podcast. In this episode </span><span>Dr.</span> <span>Diamond talks to me about how we can best use the daimonic in our lives, a ... Show More