Video Interviews

Interviews with The Psychoanalytic Quarterly’s Contributors

A Conversation with Nathan Kravis about his paper Charisma

Kravis and interviewer Terri C. Smith discuss Nathan Kravis’s paper Charisma, which was featured in our October 2021 issue. They explore themes such as how psychoanalysis informs understandings of charismatic authority, leadership/followership dynamics, and charismatic organization in the clinical practice. Read full article.

Nathan Kravis is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Associate Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

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Joyce Slochower interviewed by Steven H. Goldberg

Psychoanalytic Quarterly's Associate Editor Steven H. Goldberg, who edited our recent special issue about endings with patients in psychoanalysis, is in conversation with contributing author Joyce Slochower. They discuss her article "Ending, Not Ending, and Not Ending at All" and other topics in this long-form interview. Read full article.

Joyce Slochower Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY; and Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, National Training Program of NIP, Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies, and PINC in San Francisco. She is the author of Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996; 2014) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006; 2014), and co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique from Within and Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018). Her most recent book is Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken (2024).