"Psychosis: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts" with Danielle Knafo PhD.

[@pamami1227]

Goodness. This Dr. Has so much respect for the individual particularly the psychiatric patient. So clear. So rich in information. I buy the psychoanalysis process. Glad I found this clip.

[@MultiMagnumforce]

Wow, I have learned a tremendous amount about the human mind in this episode. Thank you very much for this educational psychoanalysis.

[@FaiziCrofts]

This is absolutely fascinating. I just started listening - I'm ten minutes in. I'm a psych student presently and love Psychoanalytic ideas and have some reservations about aspects of the medical model. Also - I used to hallucinate when I was young - quite vividly and "cured" myself - basically through self-psychoanalysis and psychotherapy before I had any real notion of what these things were. Basically - at a certain point the meaning of the major, most terrifying hallucination dawned on me. As I began to describe it to my friend and share with him what I felt had caused the hallucination I had a feeling that I was probably already well on my way of becoming free of them. Sure enough - first the morbid fear diminished since I understood their purpose and then they faded in frequency, duration and intensity until they were gone. I love the way you describe psychosis - it rings true to my experience of hallucination and my dream life, and my personal experience is sort of the core of why I "believe" in psycho-analytic concepts. I don't think there is one right or superior psychological perspective, yet I have a strong sense of the validity of depth psychological perspectives (especially, analytical psychology). This is not a belief as much as a first hand knowledge, you understand. I experienced spontaneous remission and the idea of assuming that medication should overwhelmingly be indicated to "turn off" symptoms to me me seems off-putting. Like a milder analog to lobotomy.

[@elainenagano2735]

I hear you . Wow fear is so diminished in the light of understanding of being understood in the chaos of my mind and emothions. We need a village and these people who have this desire to work with us!

[@elainenagano2735]

Oh my yes!!!! Just enjoy your content! By thoroughly investigating, listening and time spent , a therapeutic alignment!!!!!! Can people open up be rea! Symptoms as adeptations to difficulties . They r produced by the mind to help!!!!

[@SHARONEMUSIC]

You are a really excellent teacher. Thank you !!!☀️

[@kimjackson236]

Thank you so much. Too bad that the sound was kind of off for a while at the end. I live in Canada and my son has psychosis (or I guess schizophrenia) and we have never ever been offered psychoanalytic therapy. After five years of in and out of emergency and forced stays in acute care, he has been hospitalized for just over a year now, for which we thought was a blessing that he "got in", and is surrounded by docs and nurses and occupational therapist and social worker but never psychoanalytic / psychologist :(

[@els4994]

brillant… thank you so much for your work

[@arunadayananda9306]

Thank u for ur rare and wonderful contribution.. Learned a great deal about the approach to Psychosis as well as Neurosis.. Thank u again..

[@paulineisaachsen1374]

Great insights thank you

[@shimmohsensheini8752]

Very helpful thanks million

[@janaquinne]

Thank you Dr. Knafo -- wonderful talk, Jana Morgan, LCSW /practice in Sonoma, CA

[@bradleyfalconer]

Marvelous talk! Thanks. :)

[@markford6154]

The ego has an alternative to suicide and that is psychosis.

[@gaiadance]

Any way to contact this fantastic therapist?

[@SylviabombsmithUjhy75bd34]

soooooooooooooooo gooddddddd!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kimlec3592]

Psychosis is stress response. Not illness. See Dialogue Cures in Psychotic Problems here on KZbin with Jaakko Seikkula.

[@richardkoenigsberg4271]

She's very, very good!

[@John26767]

6 years later KZbin has decided to suggest this video to me. If I can have a little of your time I would like to share my thoughts. 🙂 I do personally believe our dreams can have significance. For the best part of my life I have had zero dreams, as a person I have very little anxiety and I don't want after superficial wealth or material possessions. So pretty much my imagination is set at zero, so when I do dream which is rare I am able to tell if they have significance or not. Now I don't know if you have Faith or not, but I can testify to have had one visit by God in a manner exactly as described in the Holy Bible. I formally asked for a answer before retiring to bed one night and I put a time limit to that question (something I don't recommend others doing, and something I am highly unlikely to do again), and then before falling asleep that night I thought nothing more of it. The following morning I was woken approximately 30 minutes before the deadline was due to elapse, and I was woken from what I would describe a deep sleep. I believe there has been testimonies of visits by God in the Holy Bible in this very same manner (woken from a deep sleep). This was not a dream, but much more a personal visit with a importance behind it. Now I will touch on dreams, and from my experience it is the dreams we have just before we wake that are the ones of significance, and again from experience they are recurring dreams, or a series of dreams along the same themes. In my case many have been nigh on impossible to interpret at the time (which perhaps highlights lackings within myself), but after events have happened they can very much be put into their correct perspectives and as such they were highly relevant. The very nature of recurring dreams makes us more consciously aware of them and perhaps we should give them more credibility and time deciphering them than we do. Hope this has been of some interest etc...

[@walteralter9061]

The infant is utterly helpless. Utterly. Every unmet discomfort is trauma. Every trauma contains the desire to recoil, withdraw - flight instinct. This is Freud's death "drive". It is really the life drive facing an impossible resolution in the mind of a helpless being. This is the foundation of "the human condition" and why we are all latent psychotics. The unconscious does one thing really well - it categorizes across all perceptions instantaneously, at neuron-electric speeds. These trauma-derived categories exist in the subconscious in an indexing retrieval system that is not understood, that becomes skewed according to the quantity of escape desire (pain level) that is indexed alongside the physical attributes of the trauma situation. When the accumulation of same or similar trauma elements superimpose beyond a particular threshold, you get maladaptive, reflexive symptoms, emphasis on the reflexive part. The life imperative is "survive". All human beingness is harnessed to this imperative and is a socialized sublimation of it.

[@KNKLDK]

What is the role of inner critic in psychosis?

[@lordtains]

It's probably often externalized in the form of a delusion (the government or mafia wanting to kill you) or hallucination (like hearing the critical voice of the Devil).