RU15: TREVOR PEDERSON, Psychoanalyst on Freud, mental health care, philosophy, clinical work

Today's guest is Trevor Pederson, a licensed professional counsellor and psychoanalyst in private practice in Laramie, Wyoming. His 2015 book The Economics of Libido: Psychic Bisexuality, the Superego, and the Centrality of the Oedipus Complex won the 2016 Gradiva Award for Best Book: https://www.routledge.com/The-Economics-of-Libido-Psychic-Bisexuality-the-Superego-and-the-Centrality/Pederson/p/book/9781782201779 His new book is Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom (Routledge, 2018): https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-Hidden-Narrative-in-Film-Reading-the-Symptom/Pederson/p/book/9781138307148 Trevor Pederson contributed to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019)with "Essence, Alienation, and the Economics of Libido": https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, work, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more! If you enjoy what we’re doing, please join us at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at: Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud & http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ Please visit www.drvanessasinclair.net/podcast/ for links to all of these sites. The track at the end of the episode is “Brutality of War” from the album Message 23: https://vanessasinclair.bandcamp.com Available from www.highbrow-lowlife.com Words by Vanessa Sinclair. Mixed by 156. https://onefivesix.bandcamp.com/ Artwork by Vanessa Sinclair www.chaosofthethirdmind.com