Questioning Psychoanalysts

Psychoanalysis helped me when no other therapy could. Very grateful.

Not an analyst or analysand (yet) but I can confidently say psychoanalysis has changed my life.

Psychoanalysis changes so many lifes... I think that access to treatment AND training should be democratized.

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.

Hello Seattle. This is Dr. Fraiser Crane. I'm listening.

I am eating from the trashcan every day. This is like a breath of fresh air

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! 🙏

Please do more of these ❤

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.

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.

Obvious point: Kohon's opening joke has the first person saying to a second: "if one of us dies ..." – but Kohon then revealingly assumes, without obvious reason (!), that he thinks the first person was considering murdering the second. If I was his partner, I'd be worried about this freudian slip revealing Kohon's own murderous impulses – unless, of course, I had watched psychiatry's full-scale retreat from psychoanalysis of the past 40 years, as people have slowly realised that psychoanalysis is unproven and all this talk of revealing slips is baseless. (Extra points for responding that I'm repressing something.)

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.

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.

I find it difficult hearing so many assumptions being made by analysts about peoples' motives and the meaning of their behaviour. The example given of a finger being cut - instead of a carrot - is a good example of how psychoanalysis makes a judgement about what is the most real thing in the room, as it were, what should we focus on. There is very little appreciation of the contingent nature of events such as an accidental cut. In fact, Winnicott assumes this contingency in reference to the 'spontaneous gesture', the as yet undefinable nature of an act which is made meaningful in a relationship. Gregorio Kohon seems to appreciate this, but actually wants to interpret the event and to match it to theory rather than to consider its meaning.

An indulgence to listen to someone for more than 1 hour a week? This is why we have a mental health crisis.

Exceptionally well done.

Thank you for the upload :)

Love the editing. The "favoring" socioeconomic lens, really intrigued me. What a political trainwreck! It just didn't seem to me that the classical analysis didn't comprehend that it's potentially gonna sink them. Kind of a depressing conversation.

Interesting views. All seem to be interested in helping out guys having difficulty dealing with their dark and negative, want to be better. Psychoanalysis is lot of common in our world, most people know the types of people in this world. However it is not deep enough most times, it is now and then. The dark and negative that makes us less likable is big obstacle, how do we become less destructive to the closest in our life, how do we adopt a different view or behaviour? Much of the quest is to define the ideal, many well meaning guys can not tell. They want a better equipped person to explain. We want to know how much dark is healthy, as analysts we explore this relentlessly, we ourselves become subjects. Because none of us publically want to be seen as capable of such harm, we want a likeability, or we want the secretive edge. It is one rare person who admits to all the vices he is pulled to. As long this mind has made that unconscious decision, we will have an exercise to find out why, where and when, it is like puzzle solving. You will have long forgotten the stimulus, you have its lesson imprinted in you for life. We will need both the stimulus and lesson to get rid of an less ideal condition.

I love psychoanalysis! ❤