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How to Get to Know Yourself in a Healthy Way
Self-reflection could link to negative feelings, but it could also be helpful if you know how to avoid those pitfalls. So let’s learn how self-reflection works and get to know yourself in a healthy way!
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Hamlet 2.2 Discussion: Hamlet's Hesitation
This video discusses Hamlet's hesitation to exact revenge on Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet. It explores the psychological and moral complexities that delay his action, including doubts about the ghost's honesty and his own fear of sin.
Neuro Transmissions
Dreams. Why?
Why on earth does your brain take you on wild adventures when you sleep? What purpose does dreaming serve? Well, come take a deep dive into the mysterious world of dreams with me. From ancient beliefs about divine messages to Freud's...
Oxford Comma
Why Literature Students Read Freud While Psychology Students Don't
While many of his theories have been debunked and disproven, Freud continues to have a massive influence on literary criticism. How did a man who was never fully focused on literature forever alter the way we discuss it? And what are we...
Professor Dave Explains
Clinical Psychology Part 2: Present-Day Therapy
We learned about Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis, but what about what's being done today? How does modern therapy work? What is cognitive behavioral therapy? What's the difference between a psychologist/therapist, a psychiatrist,...
Mister Simplify
Allport's Trait Theory of Personality - Simplest Explanation Ever
Gordon Allport was highly influenced by Freud but went a different route in developing his own theory of Personality. It helps u identify and categorise people based on the trait or the attributes they possess.
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Not So Bad After All?
Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) describes how conventional wisdom has moved from believing that humans were inherently selfish to now viewing us as “super-cooperators.”
Professor Dave Explains
Clinical Psychology Part 1: Sigmund Freud and Psychoanalysis
It's time to dive into clinical psychology! To discuss this topic we must first discuss Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. The whole lying down on a couch and talking to a therapist thing? That's Freud's. But he also had some...
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In Freud's Shadow
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker describes how the attitudes towards sleep science have evolved over the years, and how the impact of Sigmund Freud still strongly lingers.
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Sleep Sociology
UC Berkeley sleep scientist Matthew Walker ruminates on the sociology of sleep science within the broader domain of psychology, both past and present.
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Investigating Psychotherapy
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, gives her views on psychotherapy’s benefits as both a patient and therapist.
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Social Psychology, Eventually
Social psychologist Roy Baumeister (Queensland) describes his somewhat circuitous career path.
Neuro Transmissions
A (Brief) History of Brain Sciences
Neuroscience and psychology have a lot in common. But where does one begin and the other end? What are the differences? And how did we end up with these two different-yet-overlapping fields? It turns out that the history of brain science...
Mister Simplify
Freud's Psychosexual Stages Of Development - Simplest Explanation
Just like Erikson's stages, Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development is a popular tool in analysing human psychology and mental development. This video covers the important aspects of this popular and controversial theory consisting of...
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Case Studies in Psychology
This film uses the tragic example of 'Genie', who was kept in solitary confinement from infancy until she was 13, to illustrate the use of case studies in psychology: why they are used, how they are used, what they can offer researchers,...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Psychology
It's time to learn about the mind! This is actually not the same as the brain, which we learned about in the biopsychology series. The mind is located in the brain, but it can't quite be reduced to brain function if we wish to describe...
Neuro Transmissions
Introducing Micah Psych
Micah Psych is a new segment of Neuro Transmissions that will explore all of the fascinating ins and outs of the field of psychology. This will allow the channel to expand its scope and discuss items that otherwise would not be covered...
Institute of Art and Ideas
Are we in control of ourselves?
Many have been sceptical of Freud's claim that unconscious desires control our lives. Yet recent studies show the conscious brain processes only a tiny fraction of the brain as a whole. Are hidden desires and secret thoughts driving our...
CuriosaMente
¿Para qué nos deprimimos?
¿Será que la depresión sirve de algo? La melancolía se identificó desde la antigüedad y Freud la estudió. ¿por qué tanta gente se deprime? ¿Es cierto que comer garbanzo y pescado ayuda a superarla? La mayor parte de los desórdenes...
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Salvador Dali's 'The Persistence of Memory': Great Art Explained
Salvador Dali's exploration of the depths of the subconscious mind in his paintings and his powerful images tapped into the fantasies, dreams, fears and hallucinations of entire generations, and he should be remembered as a consummate...
Neuro Transmissions
What is Psychoanalysis?
A lot of Sigmund Freud's ideas have been debunked over the years (Oedipus Complex, penis envy, psychosexual stages of development...to name a few). But Freud's greatest invention, psychoanalysis, has lived on. Granted, today it is not...
CuriosaMente
¿Por qué soñamos?
¿Sirve de algo soñar? ¿Qué significan los sueños? Los sueños son enigmas llenos de imágenes, emociones y misterios. Se producen principalmente durante el REM, y recordamos más si despertamos en ese momento. Cada noche tenemos varios...
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Freuds 5 Stufen der Psychosexuellen Entwicklung
Freuds Theorie der psychosexuellen Entwicklung besagt, dass wir im Laufe unseres Erwachsenwerdens fünf kritische Phasen durchlaufen. Unser Sexualtrieb, den Freud die Libido nannte, konzentriert sich in jeder Phase in einer anderen...
Amor Sciendi
Picasso Captures a Time Period
This Picasso painting is one of his most famous, and one of the most influential and important pieces of art in history. Why?