An Introduction to Freud | Part 1 | The Power of the Unconscious Mind
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
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This video is Part 1 of 2 on the psychoanalytic approach to Freud.
It is important to talk about where psychology came from. I think it is fairly clear to most clinicians today that all psychology is either a direct or indirect derivative of Freud's original ideas or our response to or our reaction or rejection of Freud's ideas.
It seems like in order to understand the current state of psychology we have to know where it all started and I don't think there is much disagreement that it all started with Freud.
First let's talk about Freud criticism because over the last 40 or 50 years Freud has come against rather vicious criticism. Some legitimate, some scurrilous, some almost idealogical, some profound and important. I don't think anyone criticized Freud more than Freud himself. Freud was always changing his views, he evolved, he grew, integrated and developed. So it's not fair to say Freud was wrong about this and wrong about that as he admitted himself he was wrong about this and wrong about that as he moved through the decades. He worked for over 50 years in studying and researching in his clinical works and theoretical writings what the human mind is all about. You can find in almost any text of Freud always find Freud criticizing his early writings. It is more important to keep in mind that he fully intended not a body of doctrine but he intended more than anything else a method a way of thinking about the human mind.
And so this may be the most important element of of this opening discussions you must understand that it wasn't the content of Freud's earlier ideas that are really worth criticizing. He criticized them himself later what what may be the most important thing to understand is what Freud laid down but Fred suggested and what worked what he worked on consistently throughout his life was a method of the exploration of the mind.
Here's the complicated part. What is the human mind? This is a question that poets and philosophers and psychologists been talking for thousands of years. No one really knows. My entire field does not know the answer to the question what is the mind.
Freud said we have 2 things. We have the brain & we have consciousness or what we would now call the mind. He said then even after thousands of years of research, there is no direct causal link between the brain and the mind. All of our research all over medical science all of our fancy scanning technologies have not moved us one inch toward understanding the mind scientifically.
One of the most momentous moments was after Freud presented his 3 essays on theory of sexuality where he laid down the childhood precursors to adult sexuality. Freud laid out the idea that it's important to recognize that in very rudimentary forms even very young children have some kind of sexualized fantasy life some sort of sexualized ideas not very well worked out. Of course not like the sophisticated adult ideas of sexuality.
Freud also talked about transference. Emotion, intensity, rage, insecurity, love & desire, joy. All of these things are the accumulated experiences of your unique entire life. When you see something good it also may resonate with those good things in you & you respond not objectively or scientifically but you respond with a transference of good things. In turn, if you are faced with something negative, your boss yells or confronts you & you become angry. You then transfer feelings repressed into the unconscious, memory the experience the unconscious reality in psychic reality of those reactions responses that you've had your whole life.
Fred realized that made it the key to therapeutic improvement that made it the key to healing old wounds and helping people get strong enough to understand the details of their minds & life's. And so the therapeutic method of Freud began slowly inching toward a way of interacting with the patient.
I think at the end of his life Freud was quite humbled by 50 years of research into the human mind. And I think you would agree that the human mind is complicated. That we have these biological impulses, we have fantasies, unconscious fantasies, We have memories of experiences good and bad, trauma and joy. We have our own desires in the here and now. We have our own desires going back a long ways. We have our own motives. We have our own belief systems that drive us in many contradictory ways. And so I think if you put all of those together you see in it the power of the unconscious
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Donovan Bigelow is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in private psychotherapy practice in Seattle, Washington. His clinical focus is on adolescent, adult, and couples therapy. He believe that therapists cannot take a patient deeper than they have been willing to go themselves.
So glad I found this channel. I’m with you a hundred percent. The hate towards Freud is nothing but the denial of the uncomfortable realities of humanity.
Amazing videos about Freud
Thank you so much.!
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Very informative ! Thank you !
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Your example of the young man who finally gets his own life and job, NOW WITH a boss who is something like a copy of his father... is, at least sometimes, NOT TRUE AT ALL. My father was so domineering that I learned to say yessir, nosir, and create no waves at all. I was the best behaved child in a family of ten very well behaved children. My father had quashed my future independence, and success. Now that most of us are past 70, I can safely conclude that none of us became successful. A few of us had some kind of relationship, and some of us had children. 16 grand children is not very successful for ten children. Also, despite his repression together with my absolute obedience, in many ways my father blamed me for " not amounting to anything". This repressive long term effect MUST be already in the literature, because I have seen it in dogs. Even now that I have figured it out, am I free of it? NOT at ALL. Thanks for your lecture.
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