I am fascinated by the international minds at play in the Berlin Institute. In America, there is not as much cross fertilization and there's a paucity of input.
Great video, I find attachment theory really interesting, and I was excited to see it has a direct connection to psychoanalysis. If I may ask, do you have any plans on doing a video on lay analysis in the future? If there are studies about if it makes a lot of difference, or what is the state of the discussion around it in psychoanalysis today? I'm mostly a philosophy/humanities student but considering wether to pursue formal training in psychology to further train as an analyst, as I have gotten very much interested in psychoanalysis/Jung/Adler in the last few months.
Hey Glenarvon! Thanks for your comment! Happy to hear that you are interested in attachment theory. I have noted down your request and will forward it to the rest of the team! Lisa from BP
i think these attachment ideas are interesting but i wonder if they don't lend themselves to an anti-woman discourse. I can tell the people speaking in these videos are super conscious about being careful to say primary care-giver a lot etc. which is great i like to avoid essentializing people too. but so often in media, popular discourse there is an idea that for example, a man became a serial killer why? because his mom messed him up really badly. i'd love to see a video addressing some of these types of pitfalls that could come from using these theories.
You comment is very appropriate, and indeed there are pitfalls when it comes to "blaming" mothers. Pitfalls that are ubiquitous to general psychology when we try to explain individual behaviour as an individual phenomenon. Humans are more than their individual nervous system and more than their nuclear family. As John Bowlby himself commented: “Just as children are absolutely dependent on their parents for sustenance, so in all but the most primitive communities, are parents, especially their mothers, dependent on a greater society for economic provision. If a community values its children it must cherish their parents” Maternal care and mental health. WHO 1 Monograph Series, No. 2. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, p. 84.
So ein sympathischer Psychologe... Und die Freud-Puppe im Regal ist ja total süß! 😊
Interesting post. The video would be useful for people looking for related information.
Looking forward to the next video.
I am fascinated by the international minds at play in the Berlin Institute. In America, there is not as much cross fertilization and there's a paucity of input.
Great video, I find attachment theory really interesting, and I was excited to see it has a direct connection to psychoanalysis.
If I may ask, do you have any plans on doing a video on lay analysis in the future? If there are studies about if it makes a lot of difference, or what is the state of the discussion around it in psychoanalysis today? I'm mostly a philosophy/humanities student but considering wether to pursue formal training in psychology to further train as an analyst, as I have gotten very much interested in psychoanalysis/Jung/Adler in the last few months.
Hey Glenarvon! Thanks for your comment! Happy to hear that you are interested in attachment theory. I have noted down your request and will forward it to the rest of the team!
Lisa from BP
i think these attachment ideas are interesting but i wonder if they don't lend themselves to an anti-woman discourse. I can tell the people speaking in these videos are super conscious about being careful to say primary care-giver a lot etc. which is great i like to avoid essentializing people too. but so often in media, popular discourse there is an idea that for example, a man became a serial killer why? because his mom messed him up really badly. i'd love to see a video addressing some of these types of pitfalls that could come from using these theories.
You comment is very appropriate, and indeed there are pitfalls when it comes to "blaming" mothers. Pitfalls that are ubiquitous to general psychology when we try to explain individual behaviour as an individual phenomenon. Humans are more than their individual nervous system and more than their nuclear family.
As John Bowlby himself commented:
“Just as children are absolutely dependent on their parents for sustenance, so in all but the most primitive communities, are parents, especially their mothers, dependent on a greater society for economic provision. If a community values its children it must cherish their parents”
Maternal care and mental health. WHO 1 Monograph Series, No. 2. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, p. 84.