Virtually Freudian
At the turn of the last century, while seeing patients in Vienna and writing The Interpretation of Dreams, the young Freud escaped the city to take walks in Weinerwald, "the Vienna Woods." It was from this environment that Freud worked out his theories about the unconscious world hidden in dreams.
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In 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, five psychoanalysts began to meet weekly over VR headsets to analyze dreams in virtual environments that lent space in which to look at the unconscious mind. In the spirit of Jacques Lacan's "return to Freud," and with an interest in the early Freud, who believed real trauma, seduction and sexual prohibition all played out in conscious and unconscious ways in his hysteric patients, we created our own a virtual therapy collective, "The Young Freuds."
The Young Freuds
Andrew Anson, MD
Andrew is board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and teaching faculty at Tulane University and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. He is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute, a published clinical writer. He also trained in Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He teaches Lacan and offers psychotherapy, psycho-analysis, telepsychiatry and psychopharmacology in New Orleans, Louisiana, to individuals with mood and anxiety disorders, grief, trauma, addiction, postpartum struggles, gender and sexual issues, and other relationship difficulties.
Katharina Rothe, PhD
Katharina is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and psychosocial researcher. She is a graduate of psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute, where she also teaches the course Gender, Sex & Sexuality. Alongside maintaining a private practice in New York City, she is widely published in academic journals and books on psychoanalysis, qualitative methods in psychoanalytic social research, sex and gender, anti-Semitism, racism, the aftermath of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Mollie Schneider, LCSW
Mollie is a psychoanalyst and licensed clinical social worker. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. She has also studied family therapy at the Ackerman Family Institute. She has extensive experience in a variety of treatment settings and with people of various ages and backgrounds, including expertise with pre and post natal issues, relationship prob-lems, and narcissism.
Candela Bonaccorso, PsyD
Candela is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute. She completed the NYU-Bellevue pre-doctoral internship in 2007, and worked at a dual diagnosis clinic and subsequently at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program. While there, she provided individual and group psychotherapy to Spanish-speaking and English-speaking patients and she supervised psychology interns and externs, social workers, and psychiatry residents until 2012, when she departed from Bellevue to focus on her private practice.