Cynthia Marks is a dedicated advocate for emotional healing and personal growth. As

the host and creator of the AND NOW LOVE Podcast, she brings years of personal

experience and profound insights into the exploration of love, dreams, and the

unconscious. Inspired by her late husband, Dr. Bernard Bail, Cynthia’s mission is to

share his life-changing teachings with a global audience, helping people unlock their

potential and embrace authentic living.

Dr. Loren Weiner is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles, California with over twenty years of experience. Her specialization lies in utilizing dreams to access the unconscious, effectively identifying and addressing latent negative messages which hinder individuals from realizing their conscious aspirations.

Dr. Weiner’s professional growth has been significantly influenced by her analysis and training with Dr. Bernard Bail, which provided her with a robust foundation in his Theory of Imprinting.

Dr. Dolinsky is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Santa Monica, California.

She earned her Master’s in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and years later went on to complete a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology while working in private practice. Dr. Dolinsky trained with the Los Angeles Child Development Center as well as the Center for Hope and Healing. She later worked with Reconnect Integrative Trauma Treatment Center in both their inpatient and outpatient locations. She is currently in private practice full-time.

Cori Cross is a board-certified pediatrician and has been serving the LA community since her residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) in 2004. Dr. Cross graduated cum laude from Barnard College with a BA in philosophy. She attended The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where she obtained her M.D. and was elected to the AOA honor society.

Dr. Cross works as an advocate and public educator speaking nationally and locally to children and adults on a variety of topics. She is an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Spokesperson and uses this platform to advocate for children and educate the public on pediatric and public health issues. In addition to interviews on behalf of the AAP, she is a repeat medical expert on CNN’s Headline News and Los Angeles’ CBS news, as well as a regular guest on RadioMD’s Healthy Children podcast.

She has lobbied for stronger vaping and nicotine laws to protect children, tamper resistant marijuana packaging, LATCH child safety restraints, increasing the nutritional value of school meals and continued funding for the school lunch program.

Early in her career, it was evident that screens would have a profoundly different effect on this next generation. She joined the AAP’s Council on Communications and Media and served two terms on the Executive Committee. She was a lead author on the AAP’s “Media Use in School-Aged Children and Adolescents” as well as the accompanying technical report “Children and Adolescents and Digital Media.” She has continued working and educating in this space, giving talks locally and nationally to parents, student, educators and pediatricians. She has partnered with Common Sense Media locally to give panel discussions and nationally to develop resources for pediatricians to address these issues in their offices. In 2017, she won an Outstanding Achievement in Innovation Award from the AAP for her work in creating the Family Media Use Plan toolkit on HealthyChildren.org. Since then, she has continued to work with the AAP to update these resources and policies.

Dr. Cross has served as an elected board member of the local AAP, California Chapter 2, for 20 years holding positions of Treasurer and Member-At-Large. She uses her positions locally and nationally to address the changing needs of children and adolescents in todays evolving world.

I am and have been a practicing psychoanalyst for the past 50 years. I am a member and training analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute as well as a member of the American and International Psychoanalytic Associations. At the American, I am Chair of the ongoing discussion group Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis. My training included eight years of a classical analysis with Dr. Carl Van der Heide and then twelve years of psychoanalysis with Dr. Wilfred Bion. This website presents a new paradigm for psychoanalysis, the result of my psychoanalytic research over these many years. I offer them for your reading, and commentary.

When Freud discovered the unconscious, everything seemed possible. The new field he built around his discovery, psychoanalysis, offered mankind a dizzying possibility: to be free from the forces that constrain him, free from forces that compel him to pursue the wrong paths even as his conscious mind condemns those paths. Yet to simply find a name for these unconscious forces – a name like “repetition compulsion,” for example – did not diminish or eradicate them. So as the decades passed there was a problem, borne out in the analyst’s office: psychoanalysis did not provide the results we had hoped for. It was the failure of Freud’s paradigm to actually heal us that led to the great proliferation of theories we have now, each taking a piece of the great master’s overarching theory in order to form a nucleus of its own.

Freud believed that drugs would one day supersede his theoretical structure by curing mental and emotional diseases themselves. But no pill can make an interpretation to a human being in suffering; only another human being, one who is knowledgeable enough, can do that. Still, Freud knew that one day his elaborate structure would be left behind the same way that all great discoveries are abandoned when more encompassing, truer visions may be seen, visions made possible by the work of those who have gone before. No such vision has yet emerged in psychoanalysis, despite our hope and longing.

Today, there is a crisis in the field. Psychoanalytic societies and institutes are impoverished in numbers, in belief, and in enthusiasm. Fewer and fewer people seek out the help that analysts can offer. Entrance into the societies is down; all over the world institutes lament the lack of new applicants entering into psychoanalytic training. This can only mean one thing: that the common wisdom of the young agrees that what we have to offer does not make them catch fire – eager to enlist with a passion in an arduous journey that once might have promised the keys to the secrets of the heart and mind, and the dreams that plague us.

I have given the problem of psychoanalysis a great deal of thought over these years. Now, I wish to present my own theory and solution to the problem. The thesis I am putting forward here has been tested for years and years, and so far has not been found wanting. I trust you will consider it with due care. I call this work holistic psychoanalysis for it includes the mind, body, and the spiritual. Indeed, I am convinced that the study of dreams consecutively and deeply leads to spiritual knowledge.

So to pause for a moment, this is who we are, this is why we are here – to share the knowledge that I have accumulated in the past fifty years for your thinking and consideration.