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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I'm your host, Danny Levery.

And with me, this week in the studio, is Dr. Orna Gorolnick, a psychoanalyst and writer,

host of the Showtime Docky series, Couples Therapy. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. Very good to be here. Thank you for inviting me.

I'm so pleased to have you here. I think about two weeks ago, I was on part of a walking tour

of the psychoanalytic history of Manhattan. Unfortunately, I didn't get to stay for the end,

so I don't know how it finished, but it was great. And so I'm very pleased to have an actual real

life psychoanalyst in the studio. That is so cool. You should tell me more about that walking tour.

Oh, it's fantastic. Yes, I will try to send you the link afterwards, although I don't

suppose there's any reason I can't just name it. It's not as if I'm not worried about like

offending a sponsor or anything. It was the psychiatric history of New York from

Pure Finder. I guess a company that does various historical walking tours.

And it started in the Carl Schertz Park by 87th Street. And it was really, really fantastic.

That is so cool. I mean, you can stop me if I'm like,

intruding, but what prompted you to actually take that tour?

So it was my wife's birthday weekend. And my wife is a professor of literature.

UC Berkeley, but she also has a lot of interest in psychoanalytic theory and has I think given

a few talks at like various psychoanalytic societies. So I thought this was something that would be

of interest to her and was looking for something to do while her mom was in town. And I sort of

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