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Alyson Gorun

Alyson Gorun

Reproductive psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and Acting Director of the Aaron Stern Program in Psychodynamic Psychiatry.

Sep 11, 2026

14:58
Let's talk about that a little bit.
15:01
Yes.
15:01
So, you know, I think that what...
15:04
I mean, if you think about what a baby is, it's, uh, a baby isn't able to communicate in any coherent way other than just saying, "I'm distressed," or, "I'm hungry." So it's kind of like the perfect blank thing to project everything into.
15:22
And, and by the way, this happens with everyone, with, you know, daycare workers, nannies, teachers.
15:27
This is, like, constantly happening to babies [chuckles] and kids.
15:30
And so what happens is that there is a lot of shifts in identifications that happens.
20:06
How, how have you seen that show up?

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