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
• Reading Lacan's Écrits
  Svolos Thomas, On the subject who is finally in question [Book Chapter] 2022
• 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, Malone Kareen, Svolos Thomas, , Lacan and Addiction 2011
• Svolos Thomas M., Psychose ordinaire.'French translation [by Pascale Fari and Hervé Damase] of 'Ordinary Psychosis in the Era of Sinthome and Semblant.” [Book Chapter] 2009
• Svolos Thomas M., 'Psicosis ordinaria.' Spanish translation of 'Ordinary Psychosis in the Era of Sinthome and Semblant' [Book Chapter] 2009
• 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

• Svolos Thomas M., Non c'è nessuna situazione negli Stati Uniti 2012
• 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
• Attualit� lacaniana /Rivista della Scuola Lacaniana di Psicoanalisi
  Svolos Thomas M., Psicosi ordinaria.'Italian translation of 'Ordinary Psychosis in the Era of Sinthome and Semblant”
  10 2009
• Monokl – Lacan Özel Sayisi kakkinda
  Svolos Thomas M., Olağan Psikoz'[Turkish translation of 'Ordinary Psychosis in the Era of the Sinthome and Semblant' and 'Introducing Ordinary Psychosis.'] 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., Arenas A., Aguirre M. C., 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
• Svolos Thomas M., Resoconto dell'inaugurazione dei Clinical Study Days dell'AMP negli Stati Uniti 2006
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., On the frontier: A report on Jean-Pierre Klotz's visit to Omaha, Nebraska 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., Svolos Thomas M., [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
• Le Magazine litteraire
  Svolos Thomas M., La fin d'une hégémonie, p. 52 - 53 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., Arenas A., Aguirre M. C., Informe sobre la inauguratiòn de los Clinical Study Days de la AMP en lose Estados Unidos 2005
• Svolos Thomas M., Arenas A., Aguirre M. C., 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
• NLS-Messager
  Svolos Thomas M., Il n'y a aucune 'situation' aux Etats-Unis 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