Questioning Psychoanalysts
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Published 2023-06-16
This film was born at the launch of Three Short Films in December 2010. Attendees contributed the idea of engaging with important and widely held criticisms of psychoanalysis, and we set out to do this. Senior analysts respond to a wide ranging critique from interested but critical non-analyst colleagues also working in mental health field. We wish to thank the participants, all of whom took a walk into the dark in agreeing to participate and all of whom contributed considerably. Our target audience is the group of people who are interested in either having an analysis or in training in our field, as well as their teachers and mentors.
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All Comments (21)
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Psychoanalysis helped me when no other therapy could. Very grateful.
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Not an analyst or analysand (yet) but I can confidently say psychoanalysis has changed my life.
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Psychoanalysis changes so many lifes... I think that access to treatment AND training should be democratized.
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I recommend reading up on the history of abuse in Psychoanalysis, of which there is plenty. I love how the analysts in the video get dismissive about questions of power and ethics. Proving the point. Not to say analysis is bad per se, it can be great if it's done with integrity.
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It saved my life. After 3rd year I started to trust my therapist. Now it is much easier to be open and to learn faster about myself.
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Hello Seattle. This is Dr. Fraiser Crane. I'm listening.
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Psychoanalysis is life! It is love for the truth, both one's own and that of each person, and a love of getting to it as a self-affirming right all of us have.
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Please do more of these ❤
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I am eating from the trashcan every day. This is like a breath of fresh air
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I love this, please continue this hard talk. I am on level 5 of psychodynamic studies and passionate about people and the unknown. I wish I could afford going to university full time, I’ll never stop seeking learning, I’ve learned a lot from you all here. Thank you! 🙏
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Nothing about Psychoanalysis is scientific, but if it's done well, it can definitely help people. You need a lot of moral integrity to do the job well because you will inevitably instrumentalize/abuse your patient's for your own (narcissistic) gain if you don't. The question is not if, but when.
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I love psychoanalysis! ❤
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For me it is all about transference. It can take many years of what seems like aimless probing to finally experience the transference that is required for growth. That is what happened to me. But, I must say there are still issues my analysis did not uncover and I am not convinced it ever would have. I appreciate the benefits psychoanalysis can have. Yet, it is not realistic to expect that people will invest the time and resources to get these benefits. Psychoanalysis will always be a perk for the well off. That is a fact I did not see the analysts in the video acknowledge. Truthfully, we should not expect them too. Mental health is crucially important in our lives. I think we are still quite primitive in applying therapies that offer hope. My wish is that through research and experience new methods will emerge to improve mental health outcomes that do not require years of analysis.
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The only real knowledge is self-knowledge. And that's the one knwledge that's harder to acquire because it involves facing reality and reality is painful and thus most of us puts up a real effort to run away from it most of our lives. Long term psychoanalysis is pretty much the continual process of cornering ourselves out of it every new attempt we make to hold on to illusion.
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Exceptionally well done.
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Thank you for the upload :)
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Excellent debate...
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Psychoanalysis is Science 😊
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Awesome
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So, when you are sent to hell you have to sit at this table? Heh!
