Psychodynamic Theories: Drive Theory, Ego Psychology, Object Relations Theory... 

The way you break down, organize, and communicate these sometimes dense topics makes me feel that they are not ungraspable. As a therapist in training this is sooo helpful. Thank you for your work!

We need more videos of each of these individually please ❤you make these theories very graspable ❤

Your voice is so calming and lovely. Thank you for such a great video!

Great channel, thanks for your incredible work it spreads a better meaning or understanding to the topic of discussion.

This was so helpful! thank you! :) I could listen to you talk for hours!

Love your vids. So clear, helpful, and well organized!!

This is helping me SO MUCH with a beast of an essay, thank you!

I found this video is very helpful. Also, your sententeces are clear and understandable. So, thank you.

What a great channel, so glad I found it! Thank you.

This is a great overview of psychodynamic theory and its evolution. I appreciate how you explained the main concepts and differences between the various schools of thought. You made a complex topic easy to understand and interesting to learn. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insights!👏👏👏

Keep making videos Alina! Your channel is so great.

That ws really helpful. There is so much to all this and your explanation was very insightful. Thanks very much

I recently subscribed to this channel and I truly appreciate the systemic breakdown of the theories, contributors, origins and the therapeutic approaches. What I took from this was actually the concluding comment that "growth does not happen without a proper amount of frustration". It is definitely a reminder that being on the path of unlearning and re-learning and adaptation is such a turbulent process sometimes, especially long-standing behaviors or habits that one wishes to change.

Incredibly coherent and accessible mapping of psychodynamic theory and its branches and developments. Very useful. Found your stepping into ego-psychology and the self psychology of Heinz Kohut, and the reference to fear of disintegration of self, especially powerful. I have engaged with young adults whose life situation was obstructing their securing and sustaining of self; but had not theorised what I was empathising with as fear of disintegration of self, perhaps because unable to consider such disintegration of my own self.

Amazing channel. Packed with information, all to the point. You do not waste any time. Your "German English" is fascinating too. Einfach enzückend. I love the ending 13:09 “In the end, growth does not happen without the right amount of frustration.”

Another great video! Got a subscriber here 😊 I love the ending comment. It's a common reflection I am having recently, we can only get to where we want with a healthy amount of frustration, anxiety, and pain, of course that has to be balanced with a healthy amount of love, kindness and understanding 😊

Great overview! Thank you as well for putting a spotlight in your channel on Horney, who is still deeply underappreciated today, I think. Question for you: do you think there's an alternative genealogy possible that puts Kohut and self psychology in more direct relation with Horney? The way self psychology focuses on the gap between ideal and real selves seems to me so indebted to Horney's account of the 'three movements' in response to basic anxiety. But when I look in Kohut and others in shame studies, I never find Horney cited at all! Thanks again for your great videos.

Your flowchart in this video is excellent / somehow hadn’t made the connection that attachment theory extends laterally from object relations - thank you for connecting the threads between the perspectives / nodes of literature! 🌲

Beautifully put together.

Well explained! Thanks!

Searched for ‘Heinz Kohut’ as I’m working through my third of his books and found this video / thank you for the effort and also appreciate what you’re doing here over in your channel. Will be checking out more, resonate with your approach 🌲

Thank you for this wonderful input. I would add some criticism (limitations), as was done for Kohut, on Kernberg part. I see much too often therapists paranoically seeing patients’ aggression everywhere. How can you even help with that attitude? More Kohut, less Kernberg please 😉

I've understood the notion of re-parenting and use the term in the context as something that the patient is doing to and for themselves; it's an inside job and doesn't occur from therapist or from any outside source. It's learning to meet your own needs and learning how to self-soothe and self-nurture. Anyway, very informative video. Thanks.

Excellent, thank you very much !

I have a question. According to what I've learned while researching for my paper, psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theory are two distinct theories, the first of which was founded by Sigmund Freud. The more current or updated version of psychoanalysis is psychodynamic theory. However, I'm still having trouble grasping the distinctions in both modules. What's the difference between the two in terms of content? What was altered from the original theory, for example.

The music is a bit noisy, if you can remove that would help the audience to focus more, I am really thankful for your valuable content, it helped to clarify a lot.

Thank you so much, what a detailed and thought through video! I’m wondering how can one “marry all these different approaches” in a clinical setting? Should one? Or do analysts prefer to stick to one theory in particular and work based on it?

fantastic, thank you so much! Can you recommend a book that describes this as clear as you and perhaps elaborates a bit more?

Attachment theory, though devised by Bowlby, is not a theory of the unconscious. It is, essentially, behavioural

It would be great if you could recommend few books on psychoanalysis! Thankyou!

Good job! 👍👍

VIDEOS ARE SO GOOD

Sorry to go a little off topic, but does anyone have a RU-vid Advert Reduction Theory?

What do you think about Robert Langs?

Adler! The goal orientation. Did you do any videos on Rank ?

Hi, I am a psychologist and a psychotherapist in Israel. I am a German citizen and have EU M.A. Where can I register myself as a psychologist in Germany? (before the psychotherapie registration, just as psychologist)? No one gave me a good explenation. Planning to move to Bavaria No one helps us to find the link of the place we need to register nationally

Ken Wilber is a PURE BEAST as MARADONA!!! POWERFUL HERO

You must be a university professor. If not, it's a loss for students. But glad I have found you here.

Do you take on clients?

Do you believe someone can discover all this on their own? Knowledge either leads to function or unfortunately disfunction?

Please write subtitles if possible in your future video

Have you heard of the book the laws of human nature by Robert Greene

The theory of the unconscious have been the ideas and theory and thoughts since ancient times…read the book of the Discovery of the unconscious, the history and the evolution of dynamic psychiatry by Henri F Ellenberger….then you would all know the psychodynamic movement was originated from…we all owe the discovery of the unconscious by the ancient sages

I remember Yalom thought Horney was top notch

i disagree that defense mechanisms are necessary. What's necessary is a love of truth and the strength and courage to bear it.

You are a thousand times smarter than I am...but attachment theory argues that children can't separate without a secure base. The definition of a secure base is unconditional acceptance. I would argue that the role of a therapist is to be the good enough parent, who expects to have and repair misattunements. I'm sorry, but I can't think of many higher paid jobs than therapist. If you aren't willing to act as a surrogate attachment figure for damaged people, then what is your job? What did you "sign up for"? I've heard that a lot of therapists have disorganized attachment (schizoid adaptation) - where they experience intense connection with clients for 1 hour and then it's over. The therapist must be willing to look at their own attachment style. Historically, the shaman or wise elder was like the parent of the community. If therapists want to fill this role they need to be expert parents and secure attachment figures. Period. The child is able and learns to move toward and away safely. A therapist must be willing to see all of the inner child parts warring within the adult and hold them in a safe environment while helping the client to witness and love those children, becoming their own internal parent (what might have happened in childhood). If you believe that some people are too damaged for therapy, why did you choose the job? It would be like a politician who's uncomfortable with bending the truth. It's in the job description.