Psychoanalytic Thinking with Dr Don Carveth

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses psychoanalysis as biological, psychological and social evolution. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here .

In this episode, Dr Carveth frames psychoanalysis as religion. The human psyche is characterized by two levels of functioning— primary and secondary process (Freud), PS and D (Klein) —so all religion, spirituality and mysticism are similarly split. But so is psychoanalysis itself. There is primitive and mature religion, spirituality and mysticism— and primitive and mature psychoanalysis. Mature ve...

In this episode, Dr Carveth delivers a lecture on his paper, 'Psychoanalysis is Spirituality' to the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society at its 45th Annual Conference. The paper was published in the online journal Vestigia, Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2020: pp. 49-61 and can be accessed by clicking here . Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services...

In this episode, Dr Carveth dives into Schizoid Personality Disorder. Don describes the patient as detached, introverted loners who move away from rather than toward or against others.  Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here .

In this episode, Dr. Carveth discusses the Oedipus complex as a universal, narcissistic trauma. Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here .

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses the differences among Horney, Sullivan and Fromm in relation to biologism, sociologism and existentialism.   Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here .

In this episode, Dr Carveth delineates the fundamental difference between the Freudian and Kleinian visions of the human predicament.   Dr Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. If you'd like to inquire about Aodhán's services, contact him here .

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses the analytic cure as conceived by the different psychoanalytic schools of thought: Freud, Klein, Bion, Lacan, Winnicott, Kohut, et al. Dr Don Carveth works with Aodhán Moran to produce this podcast. Contact Aodhán at aodhanpmoran@gmail.com.

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses O bject-Relations Theory, Fairbairn's cartography of endo-psychic structure, Guntrip's addition, Carveth's revisions and additions, and the romanticism of Fairbairn and Guntrip. This lecture summarizes Dr Carveth's paper here: http://www.yorku.ca/dcarveth/Fairbairn.htm

In this episode, Dr Carveth inquires into what it is that 'cures' in psychoanalysis. Insight? Relationship? Both? The therapist's warmth and empathy are essential to building a working alliance. But his or her intelligence and learning are crucial to being able to use the alliance to help cure.

In this episode, Dr Carveth details transference neurosis as the defining element of psychoanalysis per se, as distinct from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

In this episode, Dr Carveth explores the relationship between Jesus & Freud. Whether or not Freud himself thought so, many psychotherapists, even some analysts, Don suspects, think we are responsible only for our actions, not for our thoughts, impulses, desires and feelings. Jesus famously disagrees. Dr Carveth explains why he thinks Jesus is right.

In this episode, Dr Carveth discusses Donald Winnicott's wish to 'be alive when he dies'. Implicit in Winnicott's quip is that many people are not fully alive - they are walking dead. Psychoanalysis is about the ways we deaden ourselves as defences against the terror of being alive.

In this short episode, Dr Carveth revisits masochism.    Yes, I wanna spread the news That if it feels this good gettin' used Oh, you just keep on usin' me Until you use me up Until you use me up  

In this episode, Aodhán Moran interviews Dr Carveth on death. 

In this lecture, the eighth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses psychoanalysis as the deconstruction of literalized myth.  Instead of getting caught up in the derivatives of the core unconscious phantasy or myth, analysts should listen for what is behind the conflicts and inhibitions it generates and deliteralize or deconstruct the core phantasy from which the repetition compulsion derive...

In this lecture, the seventh in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud, Fairbairn, and Berliner on masochism, focusing on Berliner's paper, 'The Role of Object Relations in Moral Masochism.'

In this episode, the sixth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth delivers a lecture on his paper, 'Phantasy, Dreaming and Awakening in Psychoanalysis' to the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology. Don touches on psychosis and involuntary daydreams.

In this lecture, the fifth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses what he sees as the fallacy of the deficit model thinking and the role of the sadistic superego in narcissistic disorders. 

In this lecture, the fourth in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discussing the nature and types of transference across the schools of psychoanalysis, before detailing countertransference.

In this lecture, the third in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses defence mechanisms, in their more primitive and more mature forms.

In this lecture, the second in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth appreciates and critiques Freud's theory of depression.   Don details many sides of depressive affect: Klein's paranoid schizophrenic and depressive positions; the role of aggression turned on the self; guilt not borrowed but induced, and finally, outlines how not all depression is the result of trauma or loss.  

Introducing the Clinical Series — a collection of lectures detailing psychoanalytic theory as it relates to clinical practice.   In this lecture, the first in the Clinical Series, Dr Carveth discusses Freud, Klein, Kierkegaard, and Buber on anxiety and guilt.  

In this lecture, the last in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth returns to the text by Neville and Joan Symington, "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion".

In this lecture, the third in the 2017 Bion series, Dr Carveth returns to the text by Neville and Joan Symington, "The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion", discussing Bion's idea of the grid.