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.
Quarterly Conversations:
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).
Quarterly Conversations:
Frank Marra interviewed by Amy Levy
Our Quarterly Conversation for issue XCIV, 2025, No. 3 is an interview with Frank Marra where he discusses his article "Novel Object Survey in Spike Jonze's 'Her'" with Editorial Board member Amy Levy whose book "The New Other: Alien Intelligence and The Innovation Drive" will be published this year by Karnac Books. In this interview they discuss the film "Her" through the lens of the Novel object. In the film the protagonist Theodore Twombly finds companionship and develops a romantic relationship with an artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha.
In his article, Dr. Marra explores Samantha as a novel object. By applying the benign, terminal, transformational and transitional object, he assists spectators in gaining a multidimensional understanding of the protagonist and his psychic developments. In their conversation Levy and Marra tease apart aspects of the paper and identify clips that reflect the author's observations. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly is a nonprofit publication and film clips are included here for educational use only. The film cited is: Warner Brothers Picture presents an Annapurna Pictures production; produced by Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay; written and directed by Spike Jonze. (2013). Her. Burbank, CA.: Distributed by Warner Home Video.
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Eve Watson interviewed by Rodrigo Barahona
In this interview, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly's book review editor, Rodrigo Barahona, is in conversation with contributing writer Eve Watson about themes related to her book review of "From an Other to the Other: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVI," by Jacques Lacan, translated by Bruce Fink and edited by Jacques-Alain Miller. New York: Other Press, 2024.
Topics include: Seminar Sixteen's major themes such as Lacan's revisions on the theme of the Subject, subjectivity, the big Other, and jouissance; the political and cultural context of France at the time of the Seminar; the institutional context of Lacan’s psychoanalytic school and the split with the International Psychoanalytic Association; the process of “the Pass” in Lacanian psychoanalytic institutions; Lacan’s use of Pascal’s Wager; the clinical implications of Lacan’s thinking in the Seminar; and the practice of psychoanalysis in Ireland. Watson's review was published in Volume XCIV, No. 3, 2025 and is available free access at Taylor & Francis online through November 30, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Watson, who is co-director of a Dublin city-centre practice, has published over thirty essays on psychoanalysis, sexuality, film, culture, and literature. Her co-edited books are "Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory" (2017, Punctum), "Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice" (Routledge, 2024), "Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy" (Routledge, 2025), and forthcoming in 2026 "James Joyce’s Writing and Psychoanalysis" (Routledge). She is the academic director of the Freud Lacan institute (FLi) and was the Editor of Lacunae, the International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, from 2016-2024. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Lacunae, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the European Journal of Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy. She was the 2022 Erikson Scholar-in Residence at Austen Riggs, and the Fall 2025 Burns Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College.
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Iuri Conceicao interviewed by Rodrigo Barahona
In this interview, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly's book review editor, Rodrigo Barahona, is in conversation with contributing writer Iuri Conceicao about themes related to his book review of "Freud and the Changing World: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Its Troubles” by Stefano Bolognini and Luca Nicoli, London: Karnac Books, 2024. Topics include, the future of psychoanalysis, neoliberalism, absence, intersections of psyche and society, the importance of the unconscious, and narcissism. The review is available online HERE.
Iuri Conceicao is a clinical psychologist working in private pracitice in the state of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Corpo Freudiano in the US and the blog editor for the Free Association in Lisbon, an organization that promotes the teaching and learning of psychoanalysis. His research interests are the intersections between psychoanalysis, history, critical theory, and sociology. Watson's review was published in Volume XCIV, No. 3, 2025 and is available free access at Taylor & Francis online through November 30, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Substack:
The Varieties of Transitional Experience w/ Nirav Soni, Ezra Feinberg & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
This interview is part of “The Varieties of Transitional Experience,” a Substack series edited by Nirav Soni that is part of the Quarterly's original online content. You can explore more original content and other series on the Journal’s HERE.
About this Series:
Winnicott’s transitional object and transitional phenomena concept has had an immeasurable impact on our understanding of the analytic process. Much of the theorizing of contemporary intersubjectivity turns on this concept, which Winnicott described as “the third part of the life of a human being, a part that we cannot ignore, is an intermediate area of experiencing, to which inner reality and external life both contribute.” Psychoanalytic scholarship of the last fifty years has worked out the implication of this concept for psychoanalytic process, but outside of the treatment process the elaboration of the concept of transitionality has focused somewhat concretely on aesthetic objects, mostly artworks that serve to help adults enter the realm of imagination and play. In Nirav Soni’s Substack series, he presents a number of essays, sketches, interviews, and reflections that do not presuppose that we understand what transitional experience is or what counts as an example of it. Instead, using a wide variety of topics—some related to aesthetics, but also covering sport, education, community mental health, and more—the series approaches transitional experience in an expansive way that may show what this idea holds for future generations.
About our guests:
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma is a Zen Priest and hospice chaplain working in Upstate New York. He co-founded the Root Strata label. He records and releases music in collaboration and under his own name, including Gift Songs from 2025, Tracing Back the Radiance from 2019, and Un Hiver En Plein Été with Felicia Atkinson in 2021.
Ezra Feinberg PsyD is a psychoanalyst and musician practicing in New York. He teaches in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and at the Greene Clinic in Brooklyn. He has released a number of acclaimed records as a solo artist including Soft Power in 2024 and Recumbent Speech in 2020. He also collaborates with Robbie Lee and John Thayer as Earth Room.
About the series' editor:
Nirav Soni, PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is on the faculty of the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry where he directs a fellowship program for second and third year psychiatry residents in the history of psychiatry. He also teaches and supervises in the psychology internship program at Cornell. He did his analytic training at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research where he is now on the faculty. He is in private practice in Princeton, NJ and NYC.
Quarterly Conversations:
Past Managing Editor Gina Atkinson interviewed by Terri C Smith
In this interview, the Quarterly's current managing editor Terri C Smith is in conversation with longtime former managing editor Gina Atkinson. Here, they explore the trajectory of the Journal, including technological innovations, the Journal's editorial directions from the late 1990s to today, the Quarterly's distinctive design aesthetic, and more. Atkinson was a part of the Journal from 1999-2017 and then returned as the managing editor from 2020-2022. To view a photo of a hardcopy cover of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and see the design attributes Atkinson describes, click on this google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QqNF...