THREE PRACTICAL VIDEO LECTURES BY MARK SOLMS
For $33 – the price of a meal at your favourite restaurant (still awkward) – watch this PRACTICAL introduction to psychoanalysis from Mark Solms’ study. Three superb one-hour videos pre-recorded during the hight of lockdown, via Zoom. In these short lectures, Professor Mark Solms not only teaches psychoanalysis, he also delivers a down-to-earth, simple, and contemporary revision of the discipline, as it is practised by many psychoanalysts, including him, today.
LECTURE 1: Drive Theory
What are the real driving forces behind emotional life? Freud thought there were two drives, but there are many more …
LECTURE 2: The Structure of the Mind
What is conscious, and what is unconscious? Cognitive neuroscience casts a very different light on what Freud called mental ‘structure’.
LECTURE 3: The Talking Cure
Our patients suffer mainly from feelings. It turns out that feelings provide the most reliable – and straightforwardly practical — guide as to how we can help.
These lectures help guide clinicians to become even better therapists. Watch them now.