Clinical Psychology Part 1: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis

It's time to dive into clinical psychology! To discuss this topic we must first discuss Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. The whole lying down on a couch and talking to a therapist thing? That's Freud's. But he also had some bizarre ideas regarding psychosexual stages, the Oedipus complex, and more. Let's go through them all now!

Script by Caitlyn Finton

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[FlatEarthKiller]

I love how Dave absolutely demolished the flailing Tour, and now hes back to his regular videos like nothing happened.

[irakli]

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Please keep up great work. People who cannot afford to spend money on expensive education need teachers like you.

[brqbat]

Freud was an applied philosopher. He thought up his ideas and then went about trying to shoehorn 'evidence' into his already developed idea. His only value was taking psychology in the vague direction of science.

I read Freud's books on dreams. Interesting ideas, but over and over the refrain of "how do you know that?" echoes in my head.

[TheAkdzyn]

I enjoy your lessons a lot. I appreciate the depth and diversity of your content. This episode was especially digestible. Thanks.

[Zookeeper.]

I learned to distance myself from the Freudian vision of the human psyche. He jump-started the whole clinical psychology field and that was a good thing, but his original vision was very raw and - I think - quickly outdated by the works of Carl Jung and many other brilliant minds that came after. I have the feeling Freud himself wasn't a very nice guy, he ironically lacked empathy and was full of himself.

[hackerp]

This could be useful for my upcoming exam. Thank you prof Dave!

[quantumcarnival]

I feel like Freud’s biggest contribution to modern psychology is that everybody was so determined to prove him wrong that they actually came up with good ideas.

[Tymbus]

Thanks, this was interesting. I think it would be useful to note that freud's ideas changed during the course of his career. He outlined the function of the Id, ego and super-ego in later writings. What interests me is how these are quite close to CBT. He saw fantasy and the Id as distorting a client's perception of reality. The aim of psychoanalysis became lessening these distortions.

[DeepSpace]

Always enjoyable and educational, thanks Dave !

[seggszaft]

Best science communicator in any fields, love you dave!

[danieldarkwa]

I am a psychology student from Ghana and here's my question
How true is it that Anna O opposed any use of psychoanalytic treatment because she didn't believe that really helped her recover from conversion disorder?
Please I need clarification on this

[undine]

I love this series and hope you keep educating us. Go! Go! Go! Go!

[djbasquiatt]

Was introduced to Freuds work in middle school, since then I’ve been different. 🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾🤷🏾

[kelloginc]

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[jacqslabz]

Nothing on hysteria/trauma? I was quite looking forward to that part.

[SnappyWasHere]

I think Freud thought about sex more than me and that’s saying something.

[richoneplanet]

Seriously enjoyable video - the range of in-depth information available on this channel is astounding! Fun information everywhere 👍

[alainaaugust]

Professor, if you read this, as a fellow teacher please don’t stop with 120 year old psychiatry. To start with Psychology as opposed to with the ideas of a medical physician, start with William James. Yes, all should know a bit of Freud since his terminology is used to this day. However, today’s psychology (not psychiatry) in the form of cognitive behavioral psychology and emotional intelligence is as far away from Freud as Galileo is from Ptolemy. You teach facts. If you mean to teach Psychology, please differentiate between the field as it is in the 21st century and the history of psychological ideas—for which we can go back to the Greeks. Summarizing CBT and explaining EI would be of enormous, immediate, pragmatic benefit to your viewers.

[MohammadAli]

Bro
This video went roller coaster in the second half

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