At 80 I’m feasting on your videos because even though I am a psychologist. My PhD is an educational psychology so all this stuff that you’re talking about is just icing on the cake for me. I also was thrilled to death at your Christian or you talk about it anyway. I’m reading through the Bible for the first time and I’m just reading one chapter in Hebrews today. It’s so wonderful.

@doncarveth

4 ай бұрын

Wonderful, thanks for sharing

thank you for sharing

Lovely! I particularly valued the emphasis on values in psychoanlysis and in spirituality. I have always found the distinction between egotistical values (what's in it for me in the widest possible sense) and enlightened values (truth, love, wholeness, beauty, freedom, peace, authenticity, aliveness etc.) critically important in spirituality. I have not yet considered the affinity between psychoanalysis and spirituality in terms of values. I have to confess that I usually looked at the issue from a theoretical, doctrinal point of view, or from a methodological viewpoint or even from an experiential perspective (in terms of insights and maturation). Potential common ground in term of values is certainly of pivotal interest. Thanks for the clarification! Best, J

Ingur, You have a point. Thank you for the suggestion. I will have to look over some of the relevant texts by Simmington in order to be able to answer you’re excellent question.

thank you!! need part 2!!!

Wonderful. I feel really privilege to having experienced this talk.

@doncarveth

7 ай бұрын

Thank you

Jonas, thank you for encouraging my rethinking with respect to spirituality. Emir, I’ll try, but it’s difficult to know where one is looking when one is semi-blind.

Even though you correctly mention it is hard to find agreeing psychoanalysts, I do seem to recognize much overlap between your views presented here and those of Neville Symington. I wonder if you also see such an overlap. I have rarely heard you speak on Symington, except in your talks on Bion of course, where you seems to disagree on some of his views on Freud. So, I'm somewhat surprised to see such a profound overlap in my view. Maybe you can elaborate on similarities and differences between you and him?

A couple of years ago I took cannabis and felt as though I swung into the depressive state; whereas I'm usually hyperactive and anxious----maybe schizotypal? I just felt like I was able to see what was happening in terms of trajectory. I could reflect cogently because I had the mental room to see things clearly.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

That can happen. Unfortunately, some folks react in the opposite way.

Mr Carveth, thanks for the videos that you share. What is your personal view about becoming a psychoanalyst regarding what percentage is coming from talent, success of own psychoanalysis and learning? My question in fact concerns the psychoanalyst’s interventions during sessions i.e when to be silent, when to talk, what to say and how to say. How to hear somebody’s words beyond its manifest content? Thanks in advance.

@doncarveth

4 жыл бұрын

Altus, Psychoanalysis is both a science and an art. Some people come to the profession with talent, others less so. Education, training and supervision are essential, but unless there is talent the result will not be great. A good sign of potential as a psychoanalyst is the capacity to read latent content in literature, poetry and myth. Some people have an “ear“ for this and others don’t. People vary in their capacity for empathy and also for sympathy. I guess what I’m saying is that training helps but it is not everything. It is important for the analyst to have a conscience, by which I do not mean as superego. When to speak, what to say, is in formed by empathy, intuition, and training and experience. It is important to know all of the major theoretical traditions, but not to be bound by theoretical abstractions or models.

nice hair dude!

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Please, teacher! Look at the camera when you talke. We need some eyes to see your words more clearly! Don't you think?

@grubernitsch

5 жыл бұрын

The camera is the gaze. It's power. Don't force him to adopt that fake authenticity you can only cope with if you get a teleprompter (and later a cable news contract).

Short answer: it's crap.