Psychology for Lawyers: Psychodynamic Perspective

Reading

Jonathan Shedler, The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, 65 (2) Am. Psychologist 98 (2010) [online text]

M. Elizabeth Sublette & Jon Novick, Essential Techniques for the Beginning Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, 58 Am. J. Psychotherapy 67 (2004) [online text]

Class Videos

[For a series of introductory videos, see Psychotherapists Talking about Psychotherapy]

What is Psychodynamic Therapy? [1:43 mins.] [brief but instructive video]

Understanding Approaches: Psychodynamic Counseling [8:21 mins.] [an interview of psychotherapist Brendan McLoughlin; locates psychodynamic theory in the work of Freud] [end class presentation at 2:57 mins.] [McLoughlin goes on, at 4:33 mins., to describe Freud's structural theory of the psyche: id, ego, superego, commentary that runs to the end of the video]

What is Psychotherapy? A Dialogue Between Two Psychoanalysts [22:10 mins.] [Gerald J. Gargiulo and Amira Simha-Alpern] ["what is psychotherapy, what is psychoanalysis?"; reasons a person goes into therapy; "therapy is a college education of our emotions"; one goal of therapy can be seen as a way to find out who we are] [begin presentation at 1:35 mins., end presentation at 6:52 mins.]

Dynamic Psychotherapy [9:25 mins.] [Patricia Coughlin] ["expose the underlying cause of the symptoms"; exploring forces within the psyche; reference to anxiety, to defenses; the past finds its way into the present] [end of presentation at 3:30 mins.]

CBT vs Psychodynamic Psychotherapy [2:43 mins.] [end presentation at 1:04 mins.]

CBT and Psychoanalysis Similarities and Difference [3:53 mins.] [Aaron Beck, a founder of CBT]

What is Psychoanalysis? [12:14 mins.] [Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute] [Donald L. Carveth] [end presentation at 8:51 mins.] [a good working introduction to psychoanalysis; comments on recurring dreams; on trying to get at what is going on in the unconscious; "defending against truths"]

Who can Benefit from Psychoanalysis? [6:59 mins.] [Susan K. Moore continues the interview with Donald L. Carveth] [end presentation at 4:04 mins.]

Reference (Psychoanalysis | Donald Carveth)

The Analytic Cure Across the Schools
[1:56:38 mins.] [possible end of the presentation at 7:41 mins.; resume presentation at 10:26 mins. (on strengthening the ego), end at 19:06 mins. (when Carveth turns to Melanie Klein)]

Conscience vs Superego
[35:53 mins.]

Freud's Three Main Contributions
[49:17 mins.]

Reference (Psychodynamic Psychotherapy | Joe Burgo)

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and What to Expect: The First Session
[6:04 mins.]

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and What to Expect: The Early Weeks
[7:23 mins.] [Joseph Burgo, explains the psychodynamic approach to psychotherapy, in this 2nd of a multi-part series on psychotherapy; the idea that in psychotherapy there is an effort to make the unconscious conscious; passing reference to Transactional Analysis and Freud's structural view of the psyche (id, ego, superego)]

The Transference Begins
[10:56 mins.]

Resistance
[5:57 mins.] [commentary on psychological defense mechanisms]

Reference (Psychotherapy & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

Depression Treatments: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
[3:52 mins.]

Reference (Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis)

The Difference Between Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
[3:20 mins.]

Reference (Psychotherapy Vignettes)

Stephanie Law: Can Therapists Love their Clients?
[10:40 mins.]

Martin Hsia: Moments of Meaning
[16:29 mins.]

Joe Dilley: Moments of Meaning
[12:50 mins.]

Nina Gutin: A Shared Experience of Suicide Loss
[15:56 mins.]

Richard LaBrie: He Said, She Said
[16:20 mins.]

Stephen W. Simpson: A Therapist and His Friend
[10:28 mins.] [a Lexington, Kentucky connection]

Silvina Irwin: Moments of Meaning
[15:11 mins.] [couples therapy]

Reference (Evidence-Based Therapy: A Critique)

Where is the Evidence for Evidence-Based Therapy?
[56:54 mins.] [Jonathan Shedler]

Reference (Videos | Audio Presentations)

Margaret Coyle Explains Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
[4:10 mins.] [reference to psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the relation to psychodyanmic psychotherapy]]

Psychodynamic Theories of Personality
[8:48 mins.] [introduction to Freud's psychoanalytic theory; id, ego, superego]

Psychodynamic Humanistic Therapies
[5:10 mins.] [another introduction to Freud's psychoanalysis] [exploring the architecture of the unconscious]

Psychodynamic Initial Interview
[38:14 mins.] [Dr. Gerald Melchiode]

One Case, Two Formulations: Psychodynamic and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Perspectives
[35:16 mins.] [ audio, with slides] [Dr. Giorgio Tasca presents a psychotherapy case. Dr. Joan Meitin provides a case formulation from a psychodynamic perspective. Dr. Jeanne Talbot provides a case formulation from a CBT perspective. University of Ottawa, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, April 23, 2013]

Psychodynamic Theory
[22:02 mins.] [focus on Freud]

Introduction to Psychodynamic Theory
[53:43 mins.] [audio lecture, Diane Gehart; various "schools" of psychotherapy; too much detail for the beginning student]

Psychodynamic Theory Debate
[46:19 mins.] [audio] [American Psychological Association, Montreal, Canada, 1988]

Psychodynamic Case Formulation
[46:15 mins.] [podcast; focus on Carl Rogers now well-known interview with a patient named Gloria] Carl Rogers and Gloria [45:40 mins.]

What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
[1:10:25 mins.]

Does Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Work?
[1:23 mins.] [Eric M. Plakun, Associate Medical Director & Director of Admissions, Austen Riggs Center]

John Slane Explains Group Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
[3:39 mins.]

Susie Orbach

Susie Orbach on Psychoanalysis
[38:14 mins.]

Susie Orbach on the Therapeutic Relationship
[1:58 mins.]

Reference (Critical Perspective)

Specialists Without Spirit; Sensualists without Heart: Psychotherapy as a Moral Endeavour
[53:20 mins.] [Farhad Dalal]

The Analytic and the Relational: Inquiring into Psychotherapy Practice
[1:01:16 mins.] [Farhad Dalal]

Web Resources

Psychodynamic Approach
Saul McLeod, Simply Psychology website

The Psychodynamic Perspective
Robert Bornstein, Adelphi University