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Dr. Blumenfield reviews the importance of maintaining remote treatment sessions during the Coronavirus Pandemic and perhaps even beyond

The Coronavirus: Psychological Considerations with Special Emphasis on Psychological Support For Doctors, Nurses, EMTs, Other First Responders, Including Members of the Media and the Psychological Support Teams Themselves

Dr. Blumenfield interview Dr. Ingram, Medical Director of the Karen Horney Institute and Clinic 

Dr. Blumenfield interviews Dr. Robert Ursano, who is an outstanding expert in military psychiatry, suicide, PTSD, psychiatric aspects of  terrorism and in many other areas. Dr. Ursano is a Professor of Psychiatry in Neurosciences in the Department of Psychiatry of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland where he had been Chairman for 25 years. Among other topics Dr. Ursano discusses research concerned with suicide in the military , PTSD and sexual trauma in the military. 

Chance Keesling was a US soldier deployed in Iraq who participated in combat. While overseas he became depressed and committed suicide. His family did not receive a letter of condolence from the President of the United States as did other families of soldiers who died while serving on foreign soil. This interview describes the story led by the father Gregg Keesling that ultimately led to President Obama changing this policy. 

Interview with May Ann Cohen leading expert on psychiatric aspects of HIV/AIDS

  Dr. Michael Blumenfield interviews Dr. Samuel Abrahams, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on the occasion of his 102nd birthday.

Dr. Blumenfield interviews Dr. James Rundell, Jr. current President of the Academy of Consultation Liasion Psychiatry. Dr. Rundell discusses his 20 year career in the USAF as well as his subsequent work with the military. This includes his work with patients with HIV and PTSD as well as his role in the significant name change of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine to the Academy of Consultation Liasion Psychiatry 

 Dr. Blumenfield discusses a few recent articles from the July 2018 issue of the  Journal of The American Psychiatric Association

Dr. Myron Glucksman is author of a book titled Dreaming an Opportunity For Change. Dr. Glucksman is a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York Medical College where he is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry. He has a private practice in Redding Connecticut and New York City. This interview was done several years ago at the time of publication of his book.

Dr. Blumenfield discussed what a therapist should do if a patient says that he or she is driving stoned.   

Guest: Anita Everett, M.D. Dr. Everett is the Immediate Past President of the American Psychiatric Association. She has been Chair of the APA Task Force on Health Care Reform and is Chief Medical Officer of SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Everett reflects on her recent term as President of the APA.  

Dr. Blumenfield presents a brief talk that he gave at the annual meeting of The American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in May 2018 in New York titled Psychotherapy of The Future.    

Guest:  Elise Snyder, M.D.  Dr. Snyder is Founder and President of CAPA (China American Psychoanalytic Alliance). She is a Clinical Associate Professor Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, Visiting Professor at the University of Sichuan and a consultant to the Ethics Committee of the Chinese Psychological Society. In 2012 she was recipient of the Sigmund Freud Award from the American society of Psychoanalytic Physicians and the Presidential Award from the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  Dr. Snyder is currently in private practice in New York City. 

Dr. Blumenfield reflects on the AIDS epidemic with the publication of the second edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Aids Psychiatry by Dr. Mary Ann Cohen and colleagues.

Guest: James J. Strain, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Medical Education and designated Master Teacher at the Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.  Dr. Strain speaks about his career as a pioneer in the subspecialty of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and his experience lecturing and teaching throughout the world.  He also discusses his innovative concepts of depression and physical disease and how they have a reciprocal connection. These ideas are elaborated in a new book that Dr. Strain edited with Dr. Blumenfield titled Depression As A Systemic Illness recently published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Blumenfield discusses Narcissistic Personality and the Goldwater Rule.          

Guest:Norman B. Levy, M.D. Dr. Levy is a psychiatrist and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at State of New York Downstate Medical College and a former director of Consultation Liason Psychiatry at Downstate Medical College and New York Medical College. He is the leading expert on the psychological effects of kidney disease, dialysis and renal transplants. He is also the founder of the Pyschonephrology Foundation. He is currently in private practive in Beverly Hills, California.   

Guest: Alfred M. Freedman M.D. (1917-2011) 102nd President of the American Psychiatric Association - 1972   Dr. Freedman discusses the behind the scenes details of the historic decision of the  American Psychiatric Association's declaration that homosexuality is not a psychiatric disorder. He also talks about the circumstances how he became President of the APA and the story of the position of the APA about the interrogation of prisoners as well as some interesting issues. Dr. Freedman was interviewed by Dr. Blumenfield in June 2007.  

Dr. Blumenfield discusses a correspondence that he had with Richard Nixon which demonstrates how Nixon may have contributed to the death of Lyndon Johnson.  

Guest: Marianne H. Eckardt, M.D. Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Daughter of Karen Horney, pioneer psychoanalyst President of American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 1972-1973 Dr. Eckardt discusses growing up in Berlin and her psychoanalysis by Melanie Klein when she was 10 years old as well as the founding of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry in 1955. Dr, Eckardt was 100 years old at time of the interview on November 19, 2013 and currently resides in Barrington, Rhode Island.