Dear Prof. Carveth, I am a german psychologist and on the way to becoming a therapist in the next months. I dont know how it works in Canada, but in Germany you have study psychology for about 6 years and then you have to choose a field of psychotherapy (cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic or psychoanalytic) and then become a therapist for another 6 years. It is so stressful, financially demanding and deeply unsettling at times. Many become frustrated and feel like "i wanna just get this over with". Your lectures spark the love and joy again for the bright theoretical world that is psychoanalytic thinking. I go on long walks in the sun and just listen to your lectures. I think everyone can hear the love for the topic in your voice..that to me is even more important than the knowledge that you also exude. Thank you from Germany

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. It’s very good to know my work is meaningful and useful.

Thank you so much for this beauiful video ❤❤❤ very informarive

Hi Don! Another lovely lecture! Your 46 years of teaching at the university (and now on KZread) show! You’ve perfected the art: these are elegant and clear teachings! Thank you! Listening to you has become one of the highlights of my days!

@doncarveth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I love all your videos, but this this is the most personal one that I’ve watched, and I felt grateful for that level of connection. I’m so grateful for your addiction to teaching and I hope you never recover from that. You are extremely graceful in your embrace of life’s inevitable losses and your particular misfortunes. It’s inspiring.

@doncarveth

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

Professor, you are extremely generous in your humanity and with your knowledge. I can see how your making these video lectures could be characterized as an addiction. But I moreso see the creative reparative drive at work. To be passionate about doing good or being kind seems the quintessence of your understsnding of the fused Ps and D position that you formulated in your previous video. Maybe you're just a passionately kind person that exemplifies the best of Christian generosity.

Dear Professor, One of the best things that happened to me during the Corona was meeting you on KZread. I hope you are always happy and healthy

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and the same to you

Thank you for teaching us at the University of KZread! Everytime I listen to any of your lectures, I pick up some new understanding that I’m able to use for the benefit of my patients as well as myself.

I've read, twice, Freud's chapter on Mourning & Melancholia, and got frustrated not able to grasp it all so thank you for making it clear, thoughtful and meaningful for me. Fellow Canadian living and studying Psychotherapy Counselling, year 3/5, in England.

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Hello fellow Canadians! Happy to know my video lectures are useful to people in training. All the best

I'm so glad you did start your University of KZread. I love your lectures. I have learned so much. Thank you.

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Simply amazing. Found your video accidentally and now addicted to listening. You are an excellent teacher and thank you so much for your generous sharing.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I appreciate it.

James, you are very kind. Thank you.

Ingur, thanks for letting me know this. It’s gratifying to know my work is helpful.

I love your addiction😅be always addict to teach. We need it. Your generosity is commendable

@doncarveth

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

Another excellent video Don! Many thanks for sharing your insights and experience. I really enjoy your videos. It really struck a nerve regarding how mourning and our earliest of experiences can shape how we feel and respond to the current climate crisis.

Thank you so much professor, very clear and helpful teachings🙏

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Most welcome

Don, please do go on making videos for as long as you're around! The world needs as much of your insight as you can give.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I certainly plan to do so.

Thank you, Professor. Please know that I have been very moved by the moral philosophy you have articulated. A lifetime ago I studied Plato, Kant, Hegel, Heigegger, etc. In my middle age, your psychoanalytic philosophy is both comforting and challenging at the same time. Thank you yet again.

Hello Mr, Carveth...I am studying at the Tavistock. I am so extremely grateful for your lectures. I love the fact that you are talking to students and not to Sigmund Freud himself, this allows my curiosity to expand and my knowledge to evolve instead of falling into the eternal frustration of " why everything seems so impossible to understand" ... I am glad that you are teaching here now...Thanks so much.

@doncarveth

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad it is useful

Thank you for your lectures. They are very clear, deep and helpful.

@doncarveth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

Dr Carveth, Having suffered numerous losses myself over recent years, the concept of mourning, grieving, and processing those losses as a part of life is of greater interest of late. I am sorry to hear of your losses; it takes vulnerability and insight to reveal them, especially on youtube. Would you be interested in talkin more about grieving, loss and aging? Hopefully with the latter comes experience and wisdom, some of the few compensations of age. Though your vision has lessened, your mind’s eye is still sharp as ever and I’m sure you perceive and understand with far greater clarity than when you were a young man with younger eyes.

@doncarveth

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, all that is certainly true. Thank goodness my mind is still sharp. I count on you to tell me if you see it getting blurry, like my vision! All the best.

The eulogy as part of the morning process is a tradition that accords with the reparative attempt to rebuild the good object.

Well I am depressed and I recognize myself from what you are describing, although I don't know what might be the object that I hate and have identified myself with. I feel hostile towards love and this is a common theme in my mind. Love is humiliating. Often I'm in the middle of this mindset: if it's not all about me and my unfulfilled needs, then what? I lived with a mentally sick mother and an alcoholic father. I was never loved the way I needed it. Who would be worthy of my love now? No one has deserved it. Self-centeredness is all I've got. Anyway, thanks for your lectures! They are intellectually stimulating.

@doncarveth

3 жыл бұрын

Your problems are potentially curable. I’ve been asked to do a lecture on depression and I am preparing to do so before long. I hope it helps.

@roosameri4756

3 жыл бұрын

@@doncarveth Okay, I'll subscribe to know when you upload new videos. Thanks.

David, thank you so much.

Thank you so much for this. I am grateful to have access to all this knowledge, in audio!!! Thank you... Marina, 30, Greece

@doncarveth

3 жыл бұрын

Most welcome

This was so clarifying and so tender. Thanks so much I loved your lecture.

@doncarveth

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

Dear Don, thank you for continuing teaching and sharing your knowledge. Your generosity, humanity and deep understanding of psychoanalytic theory are modelling for a young therapist who is hoping to start his psychoanalytic training next year. In times of coronavirus, being able to learn from you while self-isolating is an immense privilege. Best, Paco

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Dear Pac0, Thank you so much. It means a lot to me that you appreciate my work. I wish you all the best in your training and practice.

Thanks for your videos! I have 5 years of analytic training but often feel lost about which direction to go with my patients. Your videos help me to reflect on which way to go.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

I’m happy to hear they are useful to you. Thank you.

I just want to make a more general comment that I stumbled upon your series of talks by accident or however roaming around on the internet works and I really appreciate that you are putting what you know "out there". I know there is so much good material in the psychoanalytic traditions which is lost because not easily accessible. It is just so hard to sit down and read and more importantly have the right frame of mind for engaging with ideas. I feel like you have chewed on some very difficult stuff so it is easier to digest but still holds value. (Not popularised it and turned it into doughnuts!) Anyway, thanks.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you

Shayne, Thank you.

I’m training to be a bereavement volunteer with Cruse and this is exceptionally helpful to consolidate my learning and go deeper. Don you haven’t mentioned Continuing Bonds (Klass, Silverman and Nickman 1996) which as you know refutes hypercathexis that Freud posits which then guided grief work with writers like Lindeman (1944) who worked to remove the connection to the deceased. The continuing bonds model combines Piaget’a idea of accommodation with Bowlby’s idea to help the griever keep adjusting to the reality of the loss with their internal working model. Fabulous erudition as always and something I listen to again and again like your other webinars. Much appreciation Dave, (Brighton England)

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Dave, thanks. Is Melanie Klein points out, morning involves a lot more than facing and excepting the reality of the loss. It requires rebuilding the inner world, building up the internal good object once again. Best of luck in your training.

@daveclarke4875

4 жыл бұрын

Don Carveth I know you always stress the healing power of reparation that Klein puts forward. I shall consider this some more. Would you do a short lecture on the power of Kleinian reparation that if that’s a good use of your time? It seems a deeply cherished UPR for object-relations. Many thanks either way

Good point, James.

we are very happy for these special kinds of your mourning process.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Most welcome

Thank you ! i wonder myself what kind of internal good object ill introject from watching so many youtube videos :) every day i take few lectures making notes. Need new notebook:) thank you again.

@doncarveth

2 ай бұрын

Most welcome

James, I highly recommend Neville Symington’s “ emotion and Spirit:” i’m sure you would find it extremely interesting.

Professor, your teaching goes on and the classroom is the world now. You might be pleased to know that you are sharing the good psychoanalytic food with those without the means for analytic training. I have a MSc in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy in UK and am finding your syntheses really helpful review and consolidation of learnings for me. To synthesise Freud and Klein regarding mourning, is part of the cure to help clients see that the much hated object is not all bad, so moving towards D? So sorry about your eyes.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

redlion20031 Thank you, glad they are useful

Mired, psychodynamics refers to a view of the mind as clashing forces. Psychoanalysis is a psycho dynamic duo of the mind as conflict. Some people appreciate this view but want to separate it from other elements of psychoanalytic theory. They probably support a cycle analytic approach to the mind but they differ from orthodoxy in various respects. So psychodynamic is a broader view of the mind and psychoanalysis per se. The IPA is the official world wide body of mainstream psychoanalysts. There are many people who have a psychodynamic view of the mind who are not members of the IPA.

Thank you!

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Most welcome

You are a great teacher

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Javier

Is there a link between the death drives or a death wish that is inter played with the processes of mourning? Thank you, you’ve helped me grasp psychoanalysis far better than I would on just my reading.

@doncarveth

2 жыл бұрын

Freud’s death Drive does not exist. A death wish is something very different from a death drive. Many things can interfere with morning, including pre-existing depression and self-destructive Ness.

I've been reading up on depression some more and came across Bibring's work on the mechanism of depression. His work, and that of the apparently called Neo-Freudians, remind me of the theory of depression of Aaron Beck. Both seem to focus on working solely on the level of needs frustration of the ego, implying a narcissistic injury - much like Blatt's anaclytic depression (if I have understood Blatt correctly). Beck's theory is now dominant in (Dutch) scientific communities, but his therapy and it's effectiveness have been shown to be in decline (politics and obvious scientific methodological issues set aside). I wonder if this might have something to do with them not focussing on any influence of either id nor superego? I suspect that for a more lasting change, one would have to work beyond getting over mere frustration between ego and ego-ideal (or ideal-ego). These seemingly more mild and blank depressions must have something to do with a too severe superego, I think. I wonder how to think about these different kinds of depression and their treatments.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

You are quite correct. There are mild “depressions“ Involving mild narcissistic injuries and disappointments, but anything meriting consideration as a real depression is all about id aggression taken over by the superego and turned against the self. Unless the sadism of the superego is dealt with all one does is mask the real problem, no better than prescribing antidepressants.

Hi professor Carveth, I just want to thank you for all the great videos you've made, they are very helpful for me to learn theories of psychoanalysis. and I also have a question from this video, it is "can i just simply understand that mourning in some level equals to the concept of reparation in Klein's theory? "

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Basically, yes. Recline it is a matter of repairing the damaged internal world, especially the good internal object.

@fanx1761

4 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot

Over simplify the narcissistic with someone that “hates”. Did not delve into that.