GMoLS6E35 Psychoanalysts with Donald Clark

Great Minds on Learning

Learning in the post-Freudian age

At the beginning of the 20th Century, fundamental assumptions about the nature of the mind and how it learns were completely overturned by a new set of ideas. Pre-eminent among the thinkers and practitioners who spearheaded a new field of study called psychoanalysis was the Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud. Following his death in 1939, Freud’s followers continued and developed his ideas, and psychoanalysis grew ever more influential, not just in the treatment of mental illness, but in government, business, philosophy and education. Though most of Freud’s theories have since been discredited, he casts a long shadow. But what do the psychoanalysts have to say to our own time about the mind and learning?

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:11 - Introducing the psychoanalysts
• 00:06:33 - Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1923)
• 00:25:33 - Anna Freud (1895-1982)
• 00:36:17 - Melanie Klein (1882-1960)
• 00:43:53 - Eric Erikson (1902 – 1994)
• 00:57:55 - John Bowlby (1907-1990)
• 01:05:14 - Carl Rogers (1902 - 1987)
• 01:10:41 - Summing Up

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