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The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Podcast: Episode 2. Our host is Anene Tressler-Hauschultz and today we have joining us: Stuart Ozar, MD & Lynn Wolfe, MA, PLPC. The mission of the institute is to advance psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic thought through training, treatment, education, and research to benefit the mental health of our diverse community. Joining […]

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Dr. Catalina Belean is the new Director of Psychiatry Residency Training and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at St. Louis University School of Medicine.  She has a passion for treating patients, training the next generation of residents, and mentoring medical students. She has been working with the St. Louis […]

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The St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute is closed on Monday, June 20 in observance of Juneteenth, the federal holiday which commemorates June 19, 1865, the date Union troops spread the news of emancipation to enslaved African Americans in Galveston Texas. The fight for equity and justice for African Americans continues today and that is why it […]

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After events like the Shooting in Uvalde, Texas, we often ask questions like, “How can I Help?,” “Why do bad things happen?,” “Why is this affecting me so much?” and “How do we tell our children?” We have compiled a few resources below that we feel are helpful in aiding individuals who may be seeking […]

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What Does Psychoanalysis Have to Tell Us About Climate Change, and What Do We Do With It? Written by Phoebe A. Cirio, MSW, LCSW “It is worse, much worse than you think.” With that sentence David Wallace Wells begins his book The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. This book is about what life will be […]

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Between You & I: Episode 1. Our host is Anene Tressler-Hauschultz and today we have joining us: Chester Smith, M.Ed, LPC. With more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Smith speaks on what to look for when finding a therapist, his private practice, what it means to be a Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist, as well as […]

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Congratulations to STLPI’s 2021 Graduates As Dean, I offer my congratulations to all of our students– APP graduates and Practicum graduates. We applaud your commitment to psychoanalytically informed education and practice and are pleased to welcome you to our community of graduate therapists. We hope you will consider our Institute your professional home, and look forward to working with you, and seeing you […]

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Updated 8/9/2021: STLPI COVID-19 POLICIES EFFECTIVE TODAY Due to new concerns about the delta variant, the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute is announcing the following policies regarding COVID 19. Questions or concerns regarding the following should be directed to Lynn Huelsmann, Executive Director, at 314-361-7075, ext. 323. All Institute staff will be working virtually until further notice, but […]

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We are a Community – Let’s stay together. During this time, we realize there may be a flood of emotions. Whether you feel isolated due to social distancing, grief over missed events or gatherings, or even feelings of anxiousness over chances of falling ill. We’ve compiled a list of resources to help during this time.  […]

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Psychoanalytic perspectives on the impact of immigration on the identity of the Hispanic population Alicia Naveas Leiva Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Saint Louis, MO, United States Author Note This research was supported by the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute while the author was a Research Fellow on that Institution. Alicia Naveas Leiva is now a graduate […]

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A letter to our community:  Last Updated 03/23/2020 | AN UPDATE ON COVID-19 | With the stay at home order, the Institute has decided the staff will work from home until it is lifted. We successfully moved everything over this past weekend and will unpack at a later date. Classes will be held via Zoom and […]

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by Britt-Marie Schiller, PhD   Shame and guilt are moral emotions. Shame is the emotion experienced when we feel exposed as inadequate, weak, and powerless. Shame arises from passivity and helplessness, from a feeling of failure, a feeling that one amounts to less than one aspires to be, that one falls short of an ego […]

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by William A. Kelly, MD LISTEN on Podcast, click HERE.   Intergenerational conflict is a heavy sounding concept.  History is replete with examples from Abraham and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Cain and Abel, Hamlet, etc.  One of the more compelling stories from a psychoanalytic perspective is that of Oedipus Rex, a tale by Sophocles believed to […]

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https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Empathy-William-Kelly-MD-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Empathy William Kelly, MD

Empathy: In all twenty-three volumes of Freud’s works the term only appears fourteen times. However he regarded it as basic to the process and the practice of psychoanalysis. He referred to empathy as a “mechanism by means of which we are able to take up any attitude at all towards another’s mental life.

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https://stlpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Self-Psychology-Kelly-Podcast.m4a Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Self Psychology William Kelly, MD

Self psychology is a relatively new theory within the field of psychoanalysis. The name was chosen because of gradual recognition that the difficulties some people experience have to do with self-esteem regulation and maintenance of a solid sense of self in time and space, often referred to as self cohesion. Previously, these were considered to be narcissistic problems and usually not amenable to psychoanalysis.

Like all psychoanalytic theories, self psychology attempts to explain human motivation. Over a thirty-year period, Heinz Kohut and other self psychologists evolved a new perception, a new understanding, of what patients were trying to tell us.

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The Many Faces of Eros: Through the Eyes of a Midsummer Night’s Dream Commentary by Jacqueline Langley, PhD Originally Presented June 3, 2016, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Learn more about the connections between psychoanalytic thought and the dramatic arts: Click HERE.