Psychoanalysis Prez part 1

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  1. Hello.
  2. So I'm gonna be presenting on a
  3. timeline of the beginning stages of psychoanalysis today
  4. when I share my screen so you can see the presentation.
  5. Um, we're gonna talk about some of the early players Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler,
  6. Carl Carl Young and then get into, um,
  7. some of the women that were part of psychoanalysis in the mid 20th century.
  8. But I'll start with talking about their origins in the early 20th century.
  9. So just to set a general framework, we'll get much more into this.
  10. But, um, the principles mean some of the main principles of psychoanalysis
  11. were unconscious human processes.
  12. Um,
  13. at least at first was Sigmund Freud sexuality
  14. as a main driving force of human nature.
  15. And then, um, trying to think about psychological,
  16. energy and resistance to human processes through
  17. and what we would now consider mental health disorders.
  18. Um, they often talked about neurosis
  19. as something that
  20. people struggled with
  21. important historical context of the time.
  22. Um,
  23. the period before 1914 was considered a
  24. critical period for globalisation throughout the world.
  25. So the telephone telegraph, um,
  26. newspapers and magazines were becoming really present in people's daily
  27. lives and improved their people's ability to communicate with each other
  28. alongside this was an increased focus on nationalism. I'm really saying that
  29. pride in one's country is saying I'm from this specific country,
  30. Um,
  31. and an increased focus on militarization, especially with the world wars
  32. advances in science were happening at the time. So quantum physics was something
  33. discovered during this period,
  34. and Albert Einstein shared his theory of relativity in 19 oh, five.
  35. Um, so kind of an increased focus on science as an important discipline.
  36. And then World War One, of course, during occurred during from 1914 to 1918
  37. and had a massive worldwide impact, especially with this increased globalisation
  38. and important to consider here, too, in the period of World War One and then
  39. moving into World War Two is that,
  40. um the some of the founding members of psychoanalysis were Jewish,
  41. and, um, their lives were directly impacted by the Nazi regime.
  42. And so, um,
  43. that's important context to kind of consider in some
  44. of their theories and the ways that they were thinking
  45. modern implications.
  46. We'll kind of see these throughout, but to touch on them,
  47. to frame it for us at the beginning,
  48. Um,
  49. psychoanalysis is kind of really popularised even
  50. by people that are not psychologists.
  51. Um,
  52. now, today, as kind of
  53. the the founding principles of psychology, maybe even like,
  54. thinking about Freud and his couch.
  55. Right.
  56. Um, what many people associate psychology with even now,
  57. Um,
  58. this idea of working to know themselves better is something that's still
  59. really present in in therapy today and how we think about therapy.
  60. Um,
  61. the medicalization of mental illness is something that is
  62. still really present with the t S m.
  63. And you can see from, um these historical figures that I'll talk about background.
  64. They were very much present in, um
  65. yeah, the medical field,
  66. um, creation of professional groups, journals,
  67. and third party support being really important to the development of the field.
  68. Both then and now,
  69. Um,
  70. we're continually working to expand current and past ethnocentrism in the field.
  71. But in going through this timeline, you'll really see
  72. it's important to understand how kind of the origins were so ethnocentric. And, um,
  73. some context for why we might still be working so hard to challenge that.
  74. And then even during this time period, the sensationalization,
  75. or popularisation of psychology,
  76. um,
  77. being something that has really carried through to modern day
  78. as well and and things that are quote unquote trending.
  79. So
  80. I will start
  81. by talking about,
  82. um, Sigmund Freud here.
  83. So he was born 18. 56. Lived till 1939
  84. in 18 86.
  85. He was influenced by past philosophers such as, um,
  86. Lanes
  87. and Kant.
  88. Um, some of his first work was a study with this woman named, um, Anna O her pseudonym
  89. Doing talk therapy.
  90. Um, being kind of the first time we were thinking about this.
  91. So she when she was able to
  92. express or or talk about her symptoms with a
  93. therapist that actually helped her symptoms to reduce.
  94. And so they started to think about why that might be happening.
  95. Um,
  96. before I talked about this method of
  97. psychoanalysis so starting by collecting patient reflections,
  98. analysing them and then relaying those reflections or interpretations
  99. to the patient that included this concept of free association so freely having
  100. participants,
  101. um, associate certain words with other concepts. Um, one moment. I'm
  102. not sure if you can still see my screen.
  103. Mhm.