Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson, Ph.D., Forrest Hanson
432 episodes
3 days ago
Forrest Hanson is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and a world-class group of experts to explore the practical science of lasting well-being. Conversations focus on the key insights from psychology, science, and contemplative practice that you need to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life. New episodes every Monday.
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Forrest Hanson is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and a world-class group of experts to explore the practical science of lasting well-being. Conversations focus on the key insights from psychology, science, and contemplative practice that you need to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life. New episodes every Monday.
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
1 hour 35 minutes
3 days ago
Psychoanalysis: Therapy’s Controversial Origins
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore the ideas, context, and legacy of psychoanalysis, the often-controversial origin point for modern therapy. They discuss psychoanalysis’ early history and key concepts like the unconscious mind, repression, inner conflict, and transference. Alongside those major contributions, they wrestle with what hasn’t aged so well: the reductionism, murky ethics, and deep entanglements with colonialism and the Victorian worldview. This episode is both a tribute to and a critique of psychoanalysis as a rich, flawed, and deeply influential starting point for modern therapy.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction: Why do this episode?
3:40: Appreciating historical and cultural context in therapy
7:15: What is psychoanalysis?
10:35: Freud’s key insight, and the five “big ideas” of psychoanalysis
18:00: The structure of the mind
24:00: Repression, catharsis, and “experiencing out”
27:35: Transference, countertransference, and defenses
29:10: Freud’s psychosexual theory and its legacy
32:55: What psychoanalysis looks like in practice today
41:05: Historical origins: Freud, hysteria, and the “talking cure”
46:45: Freud’s philosophical influences and colonial context
52:00: The moral and political implications of psychoanalytic theory
58:10: Freud’s personal contradictions and complicated legacy
1:07:50: Recap
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Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Forrest Hanson is joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and a world-class group of experts to explore the practical science of lasting well-being. Conversations focus on the key insights from psychology, science, and contemplative practice that you need to build reliable inner strengths, overcome your challenges, and get the most out of life. New episodes every Monday.
