Dr. Goodwyn, your videos are so helpful. I am a knowledge worker in a field that has nothing to do with health or psychology, and I struggle to find as much time as I would like to keep learning about IPSA. Your channel helps me keep this kind of stuff in my daily life and make progress. This video is captivating and is helping me connect a few dots. I would encourage you to make another one in this format. Thank you for the great content and the channel regularity.
Thank you for explaining the terms with more depth and analogy. I found it hard to understand what they really meant by relating function on the jung to live by channel.
I'm here to help! Steve and Pauline operate and discuss at a very high level, so hopefully I can help when needed to explain some of the more sophisticated subjects that they talk about.
Great video. Bit of synchronicity in timing too (along with some help from youtube algorithms no doubt) as my son was starting nursery the day I watched this. Hello there alloparenting :D
My own little definition of Mom/Mother and Dad/Father: Mother and Father are biological - while they are usually the ones that raise children not all of them are geared for it. Moms and Dads RAISE children - they may not have any biological connection but when those kids say who raised them, it's their Mom and Dad, which is not always their Mother and Father. 🧐
Hm....Freudian drives methinks run amok lol. Whether or not it is strictly adaptive depends on whether or not it results in any children who successfully make it to adulthood with good prospects.
@@theimaginarium in the section on transference right down to the Adlerian part of experiencing power in the relationship and intuition picking up all the leaks into the frame. I’m currently mulling of Pauline’s discipline that if the transference was unwelcome by the therapist, if she wanted to work with clean hands so to speak then it is abuse.
You’re hitting on a much broader issue here that is yet another aspect of the crisis within modern Western culture. Mothers maintain 80% of single parent households with an estimated 10.9 million (and growing) one-parent families in the US. The absent father epidemic, and the absence of extended kinship relations, is very real. Looking to our ancestral history and attempting to return to certain generative aspects of individual/collective living is only part of the solution. The psychological repercussions of this are all too real and unfortunately have downstream effects which are hitting the downtrodden the hardest.
@@niafrate I mean, who doesn't? Why not? For those folks who can't commit to the long form videos necessarily right away. You might still need a boost!
Um i dont remember really well about it since it was a while ago but i think that for some reason i started considering that a demon might be living closely to me and i was very scared of that fact... i just fell asleep and tried to ignore it. Later that night i had a nightmare. It was all dark, i couldnt see absolutely anything, when suddenly, there was a bright flash of red and a demon appeared in my dream saying:"i have control of you now". I tried to wake up but it took 3 seconds to wake. I didnt have a watch but i was sure that it was around 3 am. When i woke up i was trembling and my heart was beating very fast. The worst part is that my trembling hand was moving to a direction and i couldnt take control of it. Finally, i just stopped my trembling hand from moving ,by holding it with my other hand which wasnt trembling. (I dont know how accurate these informations are since its been a while, but im 100% sure about what happened in the dream)
Do you know any examples of evil parents having good kids ? Like dictators, or some serial killers kids happen to grow up to be doctors, and invent cure for something, something in that sense? I would prefer a historical example so i can show it to my friend, thank you...
I love to get inspiration from my own dreams. For example some that I frequently get are trees, caves, animals, buildings, even weather. Great to work with when applying more context to these genetically deeply rooted symbols. Items and objects can also be pretty powerful. Doors or entrances, keys, weapons, jewelry etc.
Absolutely! There's a whole treasure trove of symbols you can use in fantasy to give it more emotional depth and meaning, rather than just "cool stuff".
Internal Family Systems therapy , based on analyzing mental faculties as if they are beings which you talk to. It's a pretty surprising process. I think that is just how human mentality works. We confuse ourselves by thinking our internal dialog is us.
I remember I was walking down a street in my dream and I was thinking okay so this is a dream right? And a character passing by casually said "yep" 😂 I found that hilarious.
So characters are not real and it seems characters won’t know anything you don’t know. It just seems that the lucid dreamer is just experiencing what their mind thinks it’s like to interact with a character. Characters would lie because you (the lucid dreamer) didn’t know the answer or would straight up make up words. Kinda whack but what did you expect.
overcoming panicking in stressful situations is something i personally have struggled with. panic/grief are connected as an instinctual response to "look for mom" and when we cannot find her we shut down in grief. I'm sure it's more nuanced though. Thank you DR G
Allowing yourself to become distracted is another way to ease anxiety w/o medicine or therapy. Find your favorite book, music or game to let your mind wander. Take a walk (w/o any electronic devices I might add), exercises, both mental and physical, are great for this IMO. Heck, break out a collection of your favorite comics- Spider-Man, Batman, Calvin and Hobbes. Peanuts, whatever- just give yourself a bit of down time to deflate and reassess your situation.
I always thought of anxiety/depression as if they were on a spectrum of arousal. And the way the psyche compensates with either varies from person to person. So one person may compensate and fill the "gap" between what they are doing and what they "should" be doing with anxiety and the next person may compensate with depression. If they compensate with depression (given physiological levels of fatigue are controlled for) does that necessarily mean their complex views a certain context as possessing less impetus for the "call to action" as contrasted with anxiety?
Interesting question. From my personal experience, having been through severe depression myself, I believe that mine arose to “stop me in my tracks” so to speak. I was not on the right trajectory, so the depression with its associated fatigue states made it impossible for me to continue leading life the way I had been living it. I don’t have enough clinical experience to generalize this out, but just food for thought and pressure testing, perhaps anxiety would arise as an impetus to do something one is not yet doing, while depression would be an impetus to stop doing something one is currently doing. I’d be interested to hear yours and Dr. G’s thought’s on this.
Depression and anxiety are both signs that a need is not being filled and they are calls to action to try to remedy them, though they can get out of control of course. They are ultimately protective in origin, but I think they have slightly different triggers.
@thyself8004 yes that's interesting. From my own experience as well, when it was most pronounced, was when I definitely needed to be doing something else, and what I was doing was, staying inside, not living life, living life as if it were virtual... etc... and the psyche mirrors and reflects back an associated depressive ego state in order to try and maintain homeostasis. Like Dr. G. says in the video, anxiety has characteristics to it that allow you to see what it may be you need to work on, or prepare for. So there's a forward anticipation with it, whereas with depression, it's almost as if the judgment has been made a priori to you having a psychological, or real experience of it, and the psyche doesn't have the necessary energy to meet the demands of the anticipation so it just "folds." So it's probably not as straight and narrow as the original question made it seem, but yes interesting stuff. Thanks for your interest by the way I appreciate it, the feeling is mutual.
Agreed. I’m studying linguistics with my focus on literary linguistics and I’ve found the field is largely dominated by theoretical analysis of texts either from a formalist perspective or at the largely politically motivated cultural/historical levels. Most of the focus has shifted to the reader and reader response. Very little focuses on the craft itself. There was some in Northrop Frye’s work with his work on imagination but it was behind the curve from the outset. Huxley and DH Lawrence’s work in this area was very rich but unfortunately the torch they were carrying hasn’t really been picked up since within the field. The best the field seems to have at the moment is ‘cognitive poetics’, ‘text world theory’, and ‘affective narratology’ however this is still about 30 years behind the curve in terms of their understandings of neuroscience and psychology. As you say, rather than seeing them as seperate domains, more collaboration and application of neuroscience, psychology, hypnosis, dream science etc with the literary domains and storytelling could see a better integration overall and mutual benefits for the respective fields.
Frye's work is interesting, I thought. I'm not as familiar with Huxley--but I love his approach in general. I agree the torch needs to be picked up--I'm learning more about that recently. I'm not surprised there is a "cognitive poetics", since the current trend in psychology is to just stick the word "cognitive" in front of everything. I guess they think it makes it sexier or something. Who knows. But meanwhile I'll keep doing my thing and maybe it will catch on. Thanks for this insightful comment!
The brain inhibition of itself brings to my mind Savant Syndrome. Amazing abilities with, as far as i know, no evolutionary explanation. What that mean?
Good point. There's a lot of that stuff in TV shows and movies. Slamming a bronze sword into a shield and the tip doesn't bend, training with expensive sharp swords, "skilled" warriors swinging swords like sledgehammers, cutting with a thrusting sword that has no cutting edge and opponents dodging those attacks, archers pulling and holding a longbow string like its draw weight is 15 lb and arrow somehow goes through full plate armor, people dying instantly by being cut with a sword or hit by an arrow. In Kingdom of Heaven, a guy shows "Posta di Falcone" which is cool because it's a real historical guard/stance. He also says "Never fight from a low guard!". Why? lol
@@theimaginarium Yeah... I've always wondered why they don't just hire someone who studies this kind of stuff. It's easy find them and to get in contact with them.
thank you so much. and yes the real question was at the end to which I really appreciate your response, particularly about dreams of mania vs a complex. The early stuff about cultural inflation around mental health does need to be rooted within a biological perspective to not muddy the waters unintentionally, also I just want to get away from that anyways because I'm trying to make commentary which I'd rather not because I'm just not ready to do that. so i apologize if that part was crude. I also appreciate you explaining mental illness ( adaptation that doesn't quite function in the long term) and then understanding a complex as resulting from trauma, though that may not be entirely descriptive (im thinking of the Jung To Live By video on complexes where they refer to learning how to ride a bike as being a complex, maybe this means that we can be conditioned into certain complexes when we do not have sufficient ability to resist). I really appreciate this response to my question. (:
Dr. Goodwyn-is there a difference between a psychiatrist with an undergraduate MBBS degree and a psychiatrist with a postgraduate MD degree? I assume that the MBBS focuses on clinical practice while the MD focuses on independent research, but I’m not sure. 🥼🩺⚕
In the US, being a psychiatrist means you have gone to medical school and so you have an MD. Otherwise, you are a psychologist. MDs can prescribe medications and go through the same medical school that all other physicians go through, then take 4 years of residency training, whereas other practitiioners are more limited in that area.
I once asked a dream character (while lucid). Are you purely a creation of my mind or are you an entity in your own right? They responded " a bit of both". So perhaps your mind can create entities....
"What does it mean when you lucid dream and someone tells you they know your lucid dreaming" . This has happened twice. The first time it happened i remember running from people it was like a movie scene thru the hotel the house and then ending up in a little room somewhere , and someone appears and tell me im all good and that and i say im lucid dreaming and he says he knows and from there we took off since we had each other i know he was a guy but he had a suit and silver face no hair no eyes no nothing just a head . recently i had one like this again i didnt know i was dreaming then i realized i was lucid dreaming, later on i tell a girl i was with its crazy that im in a episode right now and if i say it then it will end (didnt wanna say dreaming or lucid dreaming becuz uk how that goes) and she tells me i know the episode and im like ?...also she was making faces as in signailing because we were infront of other people and she knew if she slipped up the dream could end but im like theres no way she knows too mind blowing .and at the same time it felt like i knew who she was in real life but couldnt put a name to it, her energy jus felt familar. then we chatted for a bit out of no where we teleport somewhere and its some lady she was looking mad (guessing she was like a higher up of the dream like the dream characters are npc n she is in control but she also is a dream character) and then shes looking at us both and she cuts somethings arm and boom i wake up a little bit after. crazy dream but what stuck out was how did these dream people know i was lucid dreaming and as well how the girl also was lucid dreaming is this possible or is it my mind
I'd also say that what all of these have in common is the person having a lack of confidence. people with low self esteem are far more likely to sabotage themselves with fearful behavior IMO.
