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What can a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy teach us about the consulting room? Dr. William Greenstadt uses Euripides' Heracles as a psychoanalytic paradigm to explore ambivalent early maternal relationships, narcissistic instability, submission, violence, and splitting, and how they surface in the therapeutic relationship. Following the patient's unfolding "story," he looks at oedipal and pre-oedipal dynamics, transference, and therapist responsiveness, and at the interpretive value of attending to mythic, literary, and symbolic structures in treatment.
Recorded live on September 27, 2026, with discussion among the participants.
What can a 2,500-year-old Greek tragedy teach us about the consulting room? Dr. William Greenstadt uses Euripides' Heracles as a psychoanalytic paradigm to explore ambivalent early maternal relationships, narcissistic instability, submission, violence, and splitting, and how they surface in the therapeutic relationship. Following the patient's unfolding "story," he looks at oedipal and pre-oedipal dynamics, transference, and therapist responsiveness, and at the interpretive value of attending to mythic, literary, and symbolic structures in treatment.
Recorded live on September 27, 2026, with discussion among the participants.
