Berlin Psychoanalytic

What is the unconscious? A discussion with psychoanalyst Aleksandar Dimitrijevic. Psychoanalysis should be free! From this motto, we're looking at making the insights of more than a century of psychoanalytic understanding available to anyone and everywhere. Support us through our Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/berlinpsychoanalyticMore about psychoanalysis in our facebook group: https://www....

Is Psychoanalysis Dead? A discussion with psychoanalyst Aleksandar Dimitrijevic. Psychoanalysis should be free! From this motto, we're looking at making the insights of more than a century of psychoanalytic understanding available to anyone and everywhere. Support us through our Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/berlinpsychoanalyticMore about psychoanalysis in our facebook group: https://www.f...

The first guest of "Berlin Psychoanalytic" is Professor Gamze Ozcurumez. She offers an overview of psychoanalytic approaches to the mystery of psychosomatic illnesses. Psychoanalysis should be free! From this motto, we're looking at making the insights of more than a century of psychoanalytic understanding available to anyone and everywhere. Support us through our Patreon page! https://www.patreon...

When psychoanalytic treatment is effective, it may be that it is effective because it encourages patients to be curious about their minds. In that way, asking questions about possible reasons behind their behaviour, they continue the treatment for themselves. Some concepts and empirical results related to this are reviewed here. Part of a lecture by Professor Aleksandar Dimitrijevic at Mittelweg 5...

In the centre of attention for all psychoanalytic clinicians has always been transference. What transference is, how definitions have changed, and what to do about - these are the topics of this video. Part of a lecture by Professor Aleksandar Dimitrijevic at Mittelweg 50 in Berlin 23 of February 2019 for Berlin Psychoanalytic. Psychoanalysis should be free! From this motto, we're looking at makin...

Whatever psychoanalysts understand about the unconscious meaning of symptoms, they need to share with their patients. This process is called interpreting and it hopefully leads to insight. Several controversies are reviewed here: are there rules for good interpretations of phenomena as subjective as dreams; is it possible to use interpretative method and be a natural scientist; can psychoanalytic...

Although people were interested in mental disorders for thousands of years, their understanding was dependant on current religious beliefs and practices, like witchcraft and demonology. Even deep into the 19th century, causes of mental disorders were a complete mystery, and patients were exposed to isolation and suffering. In this video, several historical documents related to this are reviewed. P...

Lecture by Professor Aleksandar Dimitrijevic at Mittelweg 50 in Berlin 23 of February 2019 for Berlin Psychoanalytic. Psychoanalysis should be free! From this motto, we're looking at making the insights of more than a century of psychoanalytic understanding available to anyone and everywhere. Support us through our Patreon page!https://www.patreon.com/berlinpsychoalytic ★ Support this podcast on P...

Psychoanalysis as a subject theory sees mutuality as basis of personality and development: no one can become a human being in isolation, out of dialogue. There exists a wide range of approaches focused on mutuality: attachment research, relational psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity theory are just some of them. And this is not theory for the sake of theory, because clinical realm is fundamentally d...

Unconscious is the central concept of various psychoanalytic approaches (and even most of cognitive psychology). While descriptions of the unconscious existed before psychoanalysis, the idea of dynamic unconscious, which constantly influences our conscious choices, decisions, and attitudes, has given rise to a new science and practice. In this video, various conceptions of unconscious and evidence...

Psychoanalysis was a revolutionary practice in the field of mental health care for several reasons. Just one of those is that from the very beginning psychoanalysts believed in the power of dialogue with patients. It is a definition of psychoanalytic treatment that it is focused on careful listening and empowering patients to search for and develop their voices. There is now a lot of evidence that...