Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago

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Dr. Daniel Gaztambide talks about the power of avoidance in keeping you both from painful experiences and intimacy.

Gaztambide is a therapist/clinician as well as an academic at the New School for Social Research.

Lifted from the New School for Social Research:
"Dr. Gaztambide’s scholarship centers on psychoanalysis and Liberation Psychology, race, class and culture in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Puerto Rican racial identity and colonialism, comparative approaches to psychoanalysis, psychotherapy integration, and the psychology of religion."

Full video here: youtu.be/p936IdIhJAs

Part of a series of interviews with experts on mental health, culture & personality disorders.

Info on the documentary film we made about BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder): borderlinethefilm.com