Welcome to significant others. I'm Liza Powell O'Brien and we've come to our final

bonus episode before the start of season two, which is very exciting. Another thing that's very exciting is our guest today.

Dr. Susan Flynn is someone I've known and admired for a long time,

and I've asked her to come and talk with me today in her capacity as a psycho analyst and a couples therapist about the significant other that lives inside each of us.

Dr Flynn, thank you so much for doing this.

I don't have a list of your accreditation's in front of me,

so could you start off by telling us how I should really be introducing you?

Yes, sure, okay.

So I have a PhD in clinical psychology

from the City University of New York,

and I'm in private practice as a psycho analyst and a couple

and family therapist and I teach others, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, how to work with couples and families.

That's my specialty.

Got it. Were you at one point, the head of psychiatry somewhere or no?

I was one of the people who ran the Family studies unit at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Bronx

psychiatric center. So I was an adjunct faculty at Einstein for many years.

I'm both a psycho analyst.

I have a psycho analytic certificate from NYU,

postdoctoral program, and what's unusual about my training is that I'm both a

psycho analyst and a couple and family therapists and that there are only very few of

us even in New York the Mecca of therapists.

So this I know this isn't on the menu necessarily of what we're discussing today but why do you think it's so unusual?

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