This is the first in a series of podcast lectures on the vast work of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. This lecture introduces the concepts of the imaginary and the symbolic phases of Lacan's work and teaching.

The fourth in a series of podcast lectures that looks at the work of Donald W. Winnicott.

The third in a series of podcast lectures that looks at the work of W.R.D. Fairbairn.

The first podcast lecture that focuses on the work and thought of Melanie Klein's object relations theory

The first podcast lecture, in a series of podcast lectures covering Object Relations Theories (plural!).

This podcast lecture focuses on the relational turn in psychoanalysis, relational psychoanalysis as a style, and as a "re-mixing" of other psychoanalytic theories that stress the interpersonal & intersubjective.

In this lecture, I talk about attachment theory. I cover (1) the work of John Bowlby, Amry Ainsworth, and Mary Main. I also talk about the impact of trauma on attachment.

In this lecture, Neil talks about the psychoanalytic theory of Self Psychology, which was developed by Heinz Kohut.

In this podcast lecture, I talk about the shift from the psychoanalysis Freud made in a European context to the Ego Psychology that American psychoanalysts created.

In this Podcast lecture, I do a more extensive review of the concepts of transference & the ego. After that, I try to explain how both of these are stories that we tell, which are filled with errors, and how it is not possible to have no errors in these stories. I also try to explain how the process of psychotherapy might be one way to help people come to realize the errors in their stories, and then make different choices.

In this lecture, I talk about Pleasure & Instinct v. Enjoyment & Drive, the shift from the topographical model of the unconscious, pre-conscious, conscious to the structural model of id, ego, and superego. I also do a short bit on the economic model of the mind.

In this podcast lecture, I try to explain the concept of transference, what it is not, and what it is (from a psychoanalytic perspective).

In this podcast lecture, I talk about how psychoanalysis (and psychoanalytic theory) is more interested in things that don't make sense than things that do make sense. In addition to that, I talk about how psychoanalysis can be thought of as the study of the relationship between the subject (a person with an unconscious) and their (drive) object.

In this episode of The Introductory Podcast Lectures on Psychodynamic Praxis, we cover the idea that the unconscious does not exist, it ex-sists, and it insists. We also cover the idea of the return of the repressed. This podcast lecture is produced in association with Surplus Jouissance Projects & the Aurora University school of social work.

Welcome to The Introductory Podcast Lectures on Psychodynamic Praxis, produced in association with the Aurora University school of social work. I’m you’re host Neil Gorman.