The History of Psychoanalysis | Lecture 1: Psychoanalysis as a Treatment for Mental Disorders

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In the first of a series introducing psychoanalysis by exploring its different facets, Dr. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic outlines the broad psychoanalytic terrain of treatment and briefly indicates the nature of its various strands.
From the times of “Anna O.” until today, psychoanalytic treatment has undergone many changes; numerous derivations, schools and sub-fields have emerged, sometimes in stark opposition to other schools.
Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and lecturer at International Psychoanalytic University - IPU Berlin.

[@SevenRavens007]

Dr Dimitrijevic is probably the most clear and articulate lecturer of psychoanalytic concepts Ive encountered. Ive been a psychologist for 20 years, but still find plenty of new insights in his manner of explanation.

[@PeoplesScience]

After this. I shall strive to become a Psychoanalyst. The field is so rich and even if this were 4-5 years ago, it deserves a revival and renaissance!

[@totalcontrol4205]

Excellent...the best lecture on this subject that I have seen. I just watched a Yale lecture on Freud and it was very poor in comparison. Congratulations!

[@marlak4253]

Yale University historically has believed in much of conservative ideology as fact, and thus, is unlikely to understand or accept the empiricism of psychoanalytic theory, or empiricism in general. Sadly, unlikely Yale students will receive a true understanding of Freud's findings that resulted in psychoanalytic theory, now demonstrably empirical science.

[@ryanfrank1309]

​@@marlak4253 this doesn't seem very rational. Yale is more "conservative" than Harvard, sure. But to say that Yale faculty and the student body are conservative is just factually wrong. They're mostly liberal, leftist or moderate with conservatives being the minority. Furthermore, have you personally taken the psychology class you're claiming isn't taught correctly at Yale? Do you know the professor? For all you know, the psychology department's political demographics are particularly leftist, that instructor/professor is left wing, and they teach the "true" material how you believe it should be taught.

[@lonewolfisme]

Best video about pshycoanalysis on KZbin। Simple language and perfect interpretation makes this to be the best learning experience.

[@ronaldoferreira594]

Balanced Ego. Straight to the point. Thank you!

[@ilovemothsFTW]

Thank you so much for posting this. Loved the section on Winnicott, you can tell the speaker is in awe of his work, it was beautiful to hear him speak.

[@truthlivingetc88]

this guy is very humane patient articulate . what a lecture. inspiring. to say the least.

[@purgatoriprytania5382]

Yes! To present such a lucid and cogent summation of a theoretical and historical subject like this one is really remarkable.

[@sarahhajarbalqis]

Thank you for an excellent 'cut through the cake'. And sharing the pieces out generously with us.

[@leojablonski2309]

...and no annoying wax , candles.

[@sudhirpatil3434]

Made amazingly simple n to the point. I haven't seen better explanation of psychoanalysis-Thx both professor n KZbin!

[@tm27field]

Great speaker, interesting and unique lecture. Thank you!

[@beastpoet4335]

Dear Stillpoint Spaces Team, I really enjoy your lectures, thank you for providing them! I'm looking forward to more :) I feel that you do psychoanalysis today a great service through these lectures

[@richardkoenigsberg4271]

Really terrific...detailed history of psychoanalysis...filling in the memory gaps.

[@sharmasvali.p2103]

Nicely Explained sir Thank you

[@Adam-tm9vh]

This is a great lecture, really thankful you've uploaded it. Super insightful and engaging, thank you! I would note that it's highly contentious to say that psychoanalysis is *more* effective than other forms of therapy. That assertion flies in the face of the vast majority of studies and meta studies. Most research points to psychoanalysis being -at best- only as effective as any other form of therapy. Adding offhandedly the proviso that it must be >18months in duration I think speaks to a serious issue in the approach, I'd hazard a guess that any therapy of that duration would be found to be effective and with long tail after effects. Finally, surely we must consider the length, cost and intensity of a treatment when discussing it's 'effectiveness'.

[@rashika00]

This is so helpful. Request if more examples are added in these lectures. Thank u.

[@Podcast_GeenManOverboord]

Fantastic talk. Really high quality overview and insight into the world of psychoanalysis. 5/5 would listen again 🙏 (and probably will)

[@Verschlimmbesserung]

Hi, I'm new to this community and was wondering if you have delivered any lectures or presentation on Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology... I did browse through the content but couldn't find anything on the subject. Moreover, I'd like to hear your opinion on the subject. Thanks!

[@marlak4253]

Jung's analytical psychology was a spin-off from Freud's theories after Jung departed from Freud on theoretical issues. Jung did not believe in Freud's controversial theory of "infantile sexually", which is important to how human personality develops beginning with only primordial instinct, the seeking of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. The oral phase, stimulation of the lips through sucking for nurturance and pleasure is the beginning of personality development as the child bonds with his/her mother. An unsuccessful oral phase of mother-infant bonding can lead to severe dysfunction in young adulthood... Jung seemed to go off on an interesting but unrealistic tangent after his separation from Freud. His views became more political than scientific, but with a far-fetched but interesting spirituality.

[@aminuteoflearning]

This is a delightful talk! I really would like to follow it through. Is there any link with the continuation of this course?

[@edibkeskiner7890]

Yeah, there is something called "distance analysis". I guess in 2016 you needed to introduce it to the people, but now there is no other possible way.

[@lvppp5898]

Currently reading the studies in the book Hysteria

[@alanyong5744]

Mr Dimitrijevic, thank you. A complex subject made easy to understand. Grateful for your sharing.

[@tofubaby04]

I’ve listened so many times, great informative lecture

[@leojablonski2309]

This Doctor is a brilliant teacher. Successfully imparts extremely difficult concepts. Can't say enough about this unique man.

[@ronaldoferreira594]

I am an anthropologist in the social work field. I am not formally trained in psychoanalysis but I am not afraid to work with psychoanalytic approaches/techniques. I hear podcasts covering psychoanalytic topics almost everyday. It is not uncommon to hear "analysed" people having EGOS which would make my illiterate peasant portuguese grandmother astonished. I said this before here: You "sell the product" as I expect any other product to be sold: You, at least apparently, shows in your lectures that psychoanalysis can help people to balance Ego and Soul. Greetings from Brazil!

[@marlak4253]

This discussion on the use and practice of psychoanalysis is enlightening. I believe understanding the science of how human personality develops (psychoanalytic theory) is an important prerequisite to truly learning and understanding how to utilize psychoanalysis as treatment. Helping the patient to understand when he or she is transferring emotions from the past onto someone in their present life seems an essential skill. Freud was a meticulous and extremely sensitive analyst whose contributions to the science of human development are immeasurable, even before psychoanalysis as a form of mental health treatment. Freud's diligence in his work led to the foundation of developmental science, an understanding of how human personality develops both normally and abnormally. Clearly, understanding how normal personality develops is important to helping restore normalcy to abnormality. This is why I question much of psychiatry; these medical doctors seem not to have studied much of the behavioral science and do not understand normal personality development, so are at a disadvantage to understand how to treat and correct an abnormally developed personality, other than medicating and covering symptoms. Treatment should be healing, not a cover up of pain and other issues. Psychiatrists should return to psychotherapy ( including psychoanalysis) as mental health practice, not just medicated suppression of symptoms.

[@matthewaidekman6553]

Astounding. Thank you so much.

[@acknowledge101]

Strange that he doesn’t talk about lacan

[@أحمدبكر-ج2ك]

Awesome. Thanks alot.

[@joethelionjoethelion]

Good afternoon… I am really enjoying this lecture and I think it’s one of the best I’ve heard on these various topics. If somebody could respond to this question, what is the title of the psychoanalytic based movie that was mentioned approximately 3/4 of the way through the lecture?thank you

[@Hanoonah888]

Can you guys make the closed caption feature available? Thanks!

[@andreysimeonov8356]

Not a brief mentioning or even just few words about Ronald Fairbairn? Really?? I understand that he probably was, and still is considered a traitor by many psychoanalysts, although Otto Kernberg had actually paid the homage Fairbairn deserves in many of his key works. Whatever the general attitudes of Fairbairn's personality-cult-driven professional community are, no one could deny his contributions to clinical theory and practice, and they are considerable, to say the very least.

[@BruinBearDoc]

So, which comes first, the bad behavior imprinting on minds and expectations and culture, or culture imprinting on individuals to explain bad behavior? If you choose the latter, why are certain groups, like enslaved Irish, Chinese, Jews, and MANY others, realized success during the past thousand or so years? WHEN can the epigentic perpetuation of victim-hood end? When does the extremely group-level, bad behaviors among certain groups get stopped by truth and honest and compulsory interventions? When do ALL preservation and competitively biased expectations, behaviors, defenses, desire to compete, advance human species, and reactions get applied to ALL individuals in ALL groups? Why do certain groups get special treatment while competitive and successful and moral whites, as a group, need to experience destruction and discrimination (do NOT quote history unless going back thousands of years AND using the MANY unbiased variables)?

[@tariq-thenighttraveller2585]

Very amazing lecture, he deserve all applause.

[@liamnewsom8583]

Very concise, well xplained and easy to follow. Thank you so much for making this publicly available

[@rjbflies1570]

Great lecture. Thank you so much!

[@jamesmcdonnell2394]

great lectures, they are engaging and supplement my personal readings well. thank you for these. by, what is the music in the beginning? ?? sounds great! i loce ambient or stuff with no singing

[@drmisnaarifrabahi]

Thank you so much Dr Aleksandar for this super clear series on Psychoanalysis.

[@NaiveInvestor]

Wonderful, thanks for this lecture.

[@antoniomachado1808]

I suspect Freud had no need for being analyzed himself because he knew perfectly well that his writings, published and unpublished, would end up being relentlessly and thoroughly examined, leading to thousand of analysis, and that he would forever and ever be the subject of his own method

[@leojablonski2309]

I always pondered this. Who analyzed the first analyst ?

[@vigisbigtm]

Great work, very articulate. Greetings from India!

[@JoyceElroy-z9w]

Martin Mark Thompson Christopher Lewis Patricia

[@أحمدبكر-ج2ك]

I couldn't see the email clearly could anyone write it down?

[@MultiMagnumforce]

Psychoanalysis is a science of universal thoughts of human behavior. Great speaker thank you.

[@BakerDeirdre-v4z]

Johnson Betty Brown Linda Robinson John

[@marlak4253]

Freud's theories and contributions to understanding human personality development are too often misunderstood and therefore underestimated. His analyses of human personality are science and measurable. As for psychoanalysis as treatment of mental illness I would love to learn more. I enjoyed this video.

[@leojablonski2309]

Sad it became politically weapionized via fear

[@АлександрДунай-е9ъ]

Hall Amy Jones John Harris Kimberly

[@Me_ThatsWho]

54:29 No, those "lines of development" presented are debatable. I understand you are trying to present an overview, but how can we omit someone like Anna Freud when talking about lines of development ? She was probably the torch bearer of Freud's work (and expanded on it via 'analysis of defense' and also child analysis).

[@thebrocialist8300]

Outstanding lecture.

[@skyjust828]

If you still read these🤔 I don't think the "phone" analysis works as well. I had been looking for a therapist since 2018 (after my other retired) when I finally found 1 ... let's just say not eye to eye doesn't help!! I've been hospitalized twice this year & not good!

[@yp77738yp77739]

Thank you, very translucent explanation. I suspected there was nothing of objective value and this confirmed it for me. I have no objection to using the placebo effect in treatment strategy, I would even encourage it over medication. But, it’s good to have it confirmed.

[@user-vg7zv5us5r]

1:44:00 Guess: "Chinese people haven't recognised the effectiveness of the talking as a cure due to the difference of the cultural norms comparing with the West and it's continental philosophy tradition".

[@richardprice9730]

Reading Bion at the moment v, influenced by Don C Y Tube and history of group work Transcational analysis , training in PC Rogerian style values influenced by Wilber and other spiritual giants , lately really beginning to apprecaite the value of "analysis " , have been a analysand for a while , looking to retrain but without sufficient funds . A very important lecture on a subject which should be central for all of us involved in the arena of mental health , my intuition is saying yes 1:34 in but we must always remain aware of our own unmet need trauma otherwise the collaboration will become toxic ie the container is now operating from a position of subconscious hatred , envy , competition etc we need to use as many techniques as are effective for the well being and insight of the patient and continual ability to examine and explore the CTr feelings ! I am however not trained fully and cannot afford even to begin again , defaulted my first post at a mental health clinic because I wanted to spend all my time with patients and not following tight procedures which safeguard psychiatrists , the dynamic and unpicking the dynamic bringing slowly and care full and eventually consistently the defenses and the reactions against the deepest un thought tragic traumatic incidents so eventually ideally the patient actually wants him or herself to uncover and explore them this for me is the goal deeper into the potentially scary unknown . This requires extreme mental and emotional flexibility in being and in technique and the ability to let go of technique all together ( Bion) , a well honed intuition and an ability to take risks when that window appears , the patient wanting to attack the analyst could be obvioulsy over the edge but somehow the edge was clearly in view.. Genuine- empathy of course must be there otherwise what do we have as you intimated but a re-emergence of the nightmare with no good container in sight with no sense that there is a way through or the anxiety is ok this can spiral; down into a all most autistic denial as one person did to me recently shouting at me in the car shut...the F...up ! The hatred the frustration the anger are most often not allowed Freuds basic assumption about conflict , the deeper desire the un knowledgeable need etc , the adapted child the "neurotic-depressive position " these seem to me to be positions of default for most a relatively speudo adults unable to question or admit to failures , to mistakes to ignorance , doubt . Generally well normalized people in society contribute to as Bion might say cementation in the regressive basic assumptions, here is the really dangerous movement the group reinforces the need to be defensive and to rigorously defend against anybody who does things differently , who threatens our control base our "power" our procedures our false nomenclature our pathologizing them . That this then acts a group defense subconsciously so we have the classic "us" in my situation mental health nurses and over them hiracahy of powerfull pyschiatrists who using the law can section people drag them into hospital use a cocktail of dangerous drugs on them , deprive them of freedom and then has the f...nerve to say thses people have an organic brain disorder thyye are mentally "ill" patients we are allready creating and sutaining a a toxic dynamic even down to the design of thee prison like structures BUT it is a big BUT unless we are comfortable with our own madness and can allow it up , my murderous rage reached new exalted heights aftre each shift , I could hhave killedd , iunless we can do this we will part of the problem Sadly but inevitably have been subtley under attack from colleagues since my first shift to the point now where I cannot function and it is dangerous for my mental well being to the continue a kind of Zimbardo experiment ? Hence my think is the s essential understanding or the continuallly evolving framework of psychoanalysis must become initiate a new paradigm a huge shift in society in general that it is is ok, to go back to the beginning , to re connect and revisit all the told traumas from the past , to be if necessary temporarily unhinged or "mad" even , RD Lang's now mythological naked kneeling session with a patient , or Fritz Perls classic dramatic confrontation with a woman when Rogers was pussy footing around etc . So as to allow up these primitive urges even when they cannot be met by the therapist analyst , even when they seem bizarre , potentially frightening , crazy etc . This is where Freuds emphasis was correct but we are left wondering what the archives are hiding which is a shame , he needs dethroning he needs usurping for Psychoanalyses to evolve yes he pointed humanity in the right in the 1920 his work was utterly ground breaking and generally in the right direction but many of his theories were at best woefully incomplete and all most at worst have very limited dimensionality .

[@oooodaxteroooo]

at 19:00 you speak of a possible deterioration after 18+? months of psychoanalysis. the reasons are supposed to be unknown. however as mentioned in the first point, developing skills to self-analyse is one of the steong points pro. did these patients develop these self-analysis skills? two other things i often came across are 1. age and 2. the quality of the relationsship between analyst and client. for 1 its is argued a more ressource-oriented approach is needed. so its obvious to assume that psychoanalysis overpowers these patients as simply put you uncover more depressing ad traumatizing facts about yourself than you can hope to cure in the rest of your life. let alone the declining energy levels with age. and of course in a longer life there is more to analyse making it improbable that 18+ months are enough - ignoring the frequency of sessions, which i personally think is unlikely to not have an effect. (as a sidenote one session per year could never be as effective as one per week, since one year holds more to be understood than one week. and there also comes the rate of experience, ie life-intensity into the mix) as for nr 2 i heard that as much as 50% of the success in therapy is due to the relationsship quality. was this measured?

[@oanamaria4]

amazing lecture!

[@lvppp5898]

my brother has schizophrenia, and he comes over to visit and he just talks all day long to me.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Some of us have waited a very long time to see psychoanalysis bring forward a new beginning.

[@lali3289]

Please subtitle 🙏

[@marlak4253]

Freud put himself through extensive self analysis.

[@TheAmanov]

It was a great lecture, thank you Pr. Dimitrijevic!

[@adgomennemogda7009]

it is funny how this person tries to make it seem like Melanie Klein worked like that with her patients...which she did...because they were children still!! Psychoanalysis to adults is to talk about infancy, so when one works with infants, what does one do? talk about intrauterine life, of course, not here and now...

[@75Shelli]

Great lecture! It was a pleasure listening to this!

[@marlak4253]

Psychoanalytic theory is a science of human development, that is the science of how human personality develops.

[@kahlodiego5299]

Good luck finding and affording a good therapist.

[@أحمدبكر-ج2ك]

Could you provide an English subtitles, please?

[@mamatananda2935]

Can anyone provide me his email id?

[@MrFree2nest]

He had given an overview - but not a historical account - of psychoanalysis.

[@lucascampelo715]

Please, could you add auto-generated subtitles?

[@dawnnaray_psychoanalyst]

Can I get his email id?

[@josemariasosaresendiz8286]

I would like to know why Lacan wasn't mentioned during this lecture :(

[@alicedavid1857]

same. the only time he mentioned Lacan on this lecture he said just that there is a strong Lacanian tradition...

[@therabbithat]

Did you watch all 6 lectures?

[@ermelitodaroy7900]

what was dr. horace's surname? tnx

[@sarahqueen5998]

historical background????

[@ladykws]

Most likely the best introduction to psychoanalysis lectures I have ever heard. BRAVO. -- Dr. K.

[@thomasireland3065]

No Lacan?

[@EMC2Scotia]

A huge omission. This deserves an answer, particularly in the discussion surrounding interpretation

[@balinttakacs4529]

They have an entire course about Lacan, so I guess they just didn't want to get into it here.

[@beastpoet4335]

I guess introducing Lacan just demands a huge block of time, since any "short explanation" almost inevitably does injustice to the incredibly fine differentiations of Lacan, so omitting him is excusable, as they also have a seperate talk about him

[@Quinefan]

Mental filter.

[@floresdta]

Fuck that postmodernist twat

[@adgomennemogda7009]

this makes me feel hopeless for the amount of things he gets wrong. A message to al who'll read this: "DON'T DISREGARD MY COMMENT, BUT DO NOT TAKE IT AS THE TRUTH: READ FREUD", most of what this guy says just in the first few minutes of this video contradict what Freud said. These guys need to actually "return to Freud"

[@jamesbancroft2467]

wait a minute-if this is in Berlin, why is it in English?

[@heddalee]

is this a real question?

[@edenalemayehu3441]

Why do you ask in English 😉😉

[@eipiplusone3791]

Thanks for this! Pozdrav iz Rusije i hvala na predavanju.

[@חנהיוגב]

פחות

[@cebolla3922]

''who helps more, female therapists or male therapists?'' gender has nothing to do with the therapist themselves

[@cuckoohunter1628]

Freud's ideas doesn't have any market value! Because he had stated the rationalisation as a defence mechanism and he is refusing the rationalisation. On the other hand; all the financial systems and world economy is based upon rationalisation. If you look at the any book of finance or economy, it starts by addressing the notion of rationality. If you want to make money choose Rene Descartes instead of Sigmund Freud.

[@shithead9367]

Great job!