Thomas M . Svolos, MD

Department

Psychiatry

Position

Professor

Books

• Svolos Thomas, Culture and Politics on the Couch 2024
• Lacan on Depression and Melancholia
  Svolos Thomas, 181Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public mental health [Book Chapter] 2023
• Svolos Thomas, Twenty-first century psychoanalysis 2018
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, More, more, more addiction [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The psychoanalytic soapbox [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Ordinary psychosis in the era of sinthome and semblant [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The body politic [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The American plague [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The supposed-to know-to read-otherwise [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The crumbled building blocks of evidence-based medicine [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, The specificity of psychoanalysis relative to psychotherapy [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Introducing the new symptoms [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Twenty-first century psychoanalysis [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, There is no situation in the United States [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Encore, encore: knowledge [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Countertransference is the symptom of the analyst [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Encore, encore: love [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, From the father to a father [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public mental health [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Encore, encore: feminine [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Ordinary psychosis [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Realist, modern, and postmodern diagnosis in the psychiatric field [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Terrible events and their relation to the universal trauma of subjectivity [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Jacques Lacan, reader [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Neurasthenic psychoanalysis and the Name of the Father [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Introducing the symptom [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, Fundamental fantasy as the axiom of the unconscious [Book Chapter] 2017
• Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis
  Svolos Thomas, A comment on the segregation in the clinic today [Book Chapter] 2017
• Baldwin Yael Goldman, Lacan and Addiction 2011
• Svolos Thomas, Book Review: Review of De Waelhens, Alphonse, and Wilfried Ver Eecke, Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, after the Decade of the Brain. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2001. 337 pp. ISBN 90-5867-160-7 2006

Publications

• The United States of Depression
  Svolos Thomas M., Depression screening as the latest avatar of moralism in American public mental health
  5 2010
• Journal de Journées
  Svolos Thomas M., We are moving to the United States
  66 2009
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., Rethinking the Congress Based on the Paris Event [translation]
  608 2009
• Journal de Journées
  Svolos Thomas M., A propos de Cincinnatus
  43 2009
• Et Lacan
  Svolos Thomas M., The Crumbled Building Blocks of Evidence-Based Medicine [Hebrew translation] 2009
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., God as Semblant and his Other Face [translation]
  672 2009
• Bulletin of the New Lacanian School
  Svolos Thomas M., Introducing the New Symptoms
  3, p. 66 - 75 2008
• Lacanian Ink
  Svolos Thomas M., Ordinary Psychosis
  31, p. 185 - 189 2008
• Lacanian Compass
  Svolos Thomas M., La rentrée
  1:11 2007
• Discs in the Lacanian Orientation
  Svolos Thomas M., Introducing the New Symptoms
  1, p. 19 - 32 2007
• International Lacanian Review
  Svolos Thomas M., The Object of Psychoanalysis
  4 2007
• Lacanian Compass
  Svolos Thomas M., The Rome Congress: the End and the Beginning of Psychoanalysis
  1:9, p. 18 - 20 2007
• Svolos Thomas M., Editorial 2006
• Svolos Thomas M., The direction of the transmission of psychoanalysis and the principles of the power of its transmission: Closing remarks for the inaugural clinical study days 2006
• Svolos Thomas M., El psicoanálisis neurasténico y nombre del padre 2006
• Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
  Svolos Thomas M., Phenomenology and lacan on schizophrenia, after the decade of the brain.
  27:2, p. 169 - 174 2006
• Svolos Thomas M., [Review of A. De Waelhens and W. Ver Eecke, Phenomenology and Lacan on schizophrenia, after the decade of the brain] 2006
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., Neurasthenic psychoanalysis and the Name-of-the-Father 2006
• Center News
  Svolos Thomas M., Realist, modern, and postmodern diagnosis in the psy field
  46 2006
• Lacanian Compass
  Aguirre I., [Review of translation of E. Laurent, The Name-of-the-Father: Psychoanalysis and democracy]
  1:7, p. 3 - 5 2006
• Ruissellement
  Svolos Thomas M., There is no situation in the United States
  2, p. 77 - 81 2006
• Ruissellement
  Svolos Thomas M., The American Plague
  2, p. 13 - 16 2006
• Svolos Thomas M., Countertransference is the symptom of the analyst 2006
• Costruzioni psicoanalitiche
  Svolos Thomas M., Introducing the New Symptoms
  6:12, p. 19 2006
• Center News
  Svolos Thomas M., A comment on the segregation in the clinic today 2005
• Lacanian Praxis
  Svolos Thomas M., The American plague
  2, p. 35 - 37 2005
• Svolos Thomas M., Informe sobre la inauguratiòn de los Clinical Study Days de la AMP en lose Estados Unidos 2005
• Svolos Thomas M., Report on the clinical study days in the United States 2005
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., There is no situation in the United States 2005
• Psychoanalytical Notebooks
  Svolos Thomas M., The American plague
  14, p. 138 - 142 2005

Presentations

• "The Use Value of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents in Understanding Civilization Today" 2020
• ""Dialogues in the City: The Pandemic" 2020
• "The Use Value of Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents in the Clinic Today" 2020
• "The Aims of Analysis" 2019
• "New Forms of Identity and Groups in Postmodernity" 2019
• Invited Keynote Lecture "Two Sciences, Truth and the Real" at 16th Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups on "Psychoanalysis: Science and Truth" in Boston 2018
• Invited Panel Discussant at the Congress of the New Lacanian School, "In a State of Transference: Wild, Political, Psychoanalytical" in Paris, France 2018
• Invited Panel Discussant, Clinical Study Days 11 "The Delights of the Ego," New York City 2018
• "Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic School in the United States: An Interview with Thomas Svolos," Lacanian Compass Video Conference 2017
• "Opening Remarks," Lacanian Compass Clinical Study Days 10, "Beyond Oedipus: Family Dramas/Family Traumas," Miami Beach, Florida 2017
• Invited Speaker, "Discrete Treatment of Addiction in Ordinary Psychosis" 14th Congress of the New Lacanian School, "Discrete Signs in Ordinary Psychosis." Dublin, Ireland 2016
• University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. Guest Faculty in Graduate Course on "Psychiatric Epidemiology." Lecture on 9/21/2015 on "The Structure and Finance of the Mental Health System" 2015
• Moderator for Panel: "Why We Need Early Intervention Lack of Systemic Response to People with First Episode Psychosis" Lasting Hope Annual Conference: First Episode Psychosis. June 25, 2015 2015
• Panel Moderator "Policy and Finance issues in Implementation of Early Intervention" Lasting Hope Annual Conference: First Episode Psychosis. June 25, 2015 2015
• Panel Moderator "Developing Workforce Skills and Establishing Early Intervention" Lasting Hope Annual Conference: First Episode Psychosis. June 25, 2015 2015
• "Program Overview" and "Summary of Key Points" Lasting Hope Annual Conference: First Episode Psychosis. June 25, 2015 2015
• "New Models in Patient Care Create Conflicts for Physicians". Creighton University, Bioethics Beyond the Bedside Podcast. Episode 28, Posted April 9, 2015. 2015
• "Shall we Treat Bipolar Depression in the Primary Care Office and How?" Psychiatry in Primary Care: An Essential Update; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE; February 6, 2015 2015
• Discussant for "Primary Care Providers ARE Mental Health Experts" presented by Shanjeev K. Sharma, MD Psychiatry in Primary Care: An Essential Update; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE; February 6, 2015 2015
• Course Director and Moderator. Psychiatry in Primary Care: An Essential Update; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE February 6, 2015. 2015
• Sarma, Arun MD, Svolos, Thomas MD and Snyder, Jamie MD: Video Case Presentation: A Diagnostic Dilemma? Depression? Bipolar? Personality Disorder? Psychiatry in Primary Care: An Essential Update; Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE; February 6, 2015 2015
• Scientific Committee and Moderator. Clinical Study Days 8: Encounters with the Real in the Analytic Experience. Lacanian Compass. Miami Beach, Florida January 23-25, 2015 2015
• Scientific Committee and Moderator. Clinical Study Days 8: Encounters with the Real in the Analytic Experience. Lacanian Compass. Miami Beach, Florida. January 23-25, 2015. 2015
• Columbia University, Barnard College; New York Freud Lacan Analytic Group - Seminar Presentation on "The Real Politics of the Body" with lectures on "The Body Politic," "More, More, More Addiction," and "The Psychoanalytic Soapbox" 2014
• Lecture (via videoconference), "The Body Politic" - Lacan Circle of Melbourne, New Lacanian School; Melbourne, Australia 2014
• CUSOM Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Some Trends in Health Care and Our Response to them as Academic Psychiatrists", July 16, 2014. 2014
• Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Wednesday Evening Conversation "Countertransference" 2007
• Clinical Study Days 2: Psychic Suffering and the Treatment Challenges in the Postmodern World, Miami, Florida "The Object of Psychoanalysis" 2007
• Lacanian Orientation in Practice, Miami, Florida "Ordinary Psychosis" 2007
• Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Wednesday Evening Conversation "Interpretation" 2007
• Substance Abuse Treatment Center, Omaha Veterans Administration Medical Center -- "The Treatment of Addictions One by One" 2006
• Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Wednesday Evening Conversation "Socrates, Love, and Knowledge" 2006
• Creighton University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Omaha, NE "New Forms of Psychosis" 2006
• University of NebraskaLincoln, Department of Psychology, Graduate Clinical Training Program "Lacanian Psychoanalysis" 2006
• Seventh Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia "Introducing the New Symptoms 2006
• "Realist, Modern and Postmodern Diagnosis in the Psychiatric Field", Omaha, NE 2006
• Creighton University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Omaha, NE "Realist, Modern, and Postmodern Diagnosis in the Psy Field" 2006
• Clinical Study Days 1 "The Body in Psychoanalysis," a program of the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States, New York, NY "Closing Remarks" 2005
• State of Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Division of Mental Health, Lincoln, NE "The Use of Psychoanalysis in Institutions" 2005
• London Psychiatry Forum of the Annual Congress of the New Lacanian School of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. "The American Plague" Delivered simulataneously in English and French. 2005
• 7th International Seminar of the Freudian Field, New York Freud-Lacan Analytic Group, Columbia University "Two-fold Structure of the Symptom in Female Sexuality" 2004
• 6th Annual Conference of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups "Introducing the Symptom". 2004
• "(En)countering the Transference in Clinical Work" - "Introduction to the Clinic of the Tranference" 2004
• "(En)countering the Transference in Clinical Work" - "Countertranference is the Symptom of the Analyst" 2004
• Case Presentation w/UNL Psychology Graduate Clinical Training Program 2003
• Case Presentation w/UNL Dept of Pscyology Graduate Clinical Training Program 2003
• Case Presentation w/UNL Graduate Clinical Training Program 2003
• "The Symptom, Part 2", Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 2003
• "The Symptom, Part 1", Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 2003
• Case Presentation w/UNL Graduate Clinical Training Program 2003
• "The Psychoanalytic Approach to Addictions", Omaha VA 2003
• "Fundamental Fantasy as the Axiom of the Unconscious" Fifth Annual Conference of Affiliated Psycoanalytic Workgroups. 2003
• "Fantasy" Center for Psychotherapy and Psycoanalysis 2003
• "The Unconscious" Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 2003
• "The Mathemes of Neurosis" Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 2003
• "Early Object Relations" Center for Psychotherapy and Psychanalysis 2003
• "Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy" Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis 2001

Awards

• Psychoanalyst and Member of New Lacanian School and Wold Association of Psychoanalyst by WAP and first member trained entirely in the United States.
• Elected at a psychoanalyst and member of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP).
  Only the 11th U.S. psychoanalyst elected by WAP and the first member trained entirely in the United States.
• Diplomat, (Psychiatry), American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (#51741), 2004
• Diplomate (Psychiatry), American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (#51741), 2003