Dr Jonathan Shedler is a psychologist, author, master clinician and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California.

We do not understand ourselves. Almost all of what is inside of our minds is obscured from us. We don't need to exclusively despair though. With a little work and some good insights from psychoanalysis, the view can be made a little clearer.

Expect to learn why people believe that their suffering makes them more moral than others, how you can create a false identity without realising, the ruthless danger of projective identification, how come it's easier for us to see people as either good or bad, how extreme envy can manifest, the manipulative strategies we all enact without thinking and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:48 The Need for Psychoanalytic Psychology
06:11 What is Moral Masochism?
15:32 Developing a False Self
21:16 The Relationship Pattern of Transference
27:49 How Projective Identification & Splitting Works
46:11 Everyone Engages in Repetition & Enactment
50:50 Using Reaction Formation as a Defence
54:22 The Sub-conscious Act of Displacement
1:00:46 One Thing Dr Shedler Wished People Knew
1:03:21 How to Choose the Right Therapist
1:166:01 Where to Find Dr Shedler

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