Having Fun Learning About Psychoanalysis

<div>Really! Melanie and guest Jon <span class= "il">Baskin</span> have a lot of fun talking about psychoanalysis in this episode.</div> <div> </div> <div>Things like what it is, why there are so many negative biases against it (at least on Melanie’s part), and what motivated Jon to become a candidate psychoanalyst-in-training at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jon <span class="il">Baskin</span> is already a seasoned psychotherapist. He’s a licensed clinical social worker, completing his bachelor’s degree in philosophy at UCLA along with a master’s degree in social welfare, also at UCLA.</div> <div> </div> <div>Over the course of his career, he’s worked with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities; military service members, veterans, and their families; first responders; education and mental health professionals; teenagers and young adults; and those experiencing crises related to severe psychological distress.</div> <div> </div> <div>Jon’s a warm, compassionate, engaging guest who’s articulate about a sometimes confusing psychotherapeutic modality.</div> <div> </div> <div>The prominent psychoanalytic therapist, Jonathan Shedler, shares this sort-of description about how it works:</div> <div> </div> <div><em>"Our patients recreate their problematic relationship patterns with us in the therapy relationship. Our unavoidable participation in these patterns provides a crucial window into their inner worlds.</em></div> <div> </div> <div><em>“Our unexpected participation in our patients’ problematic relational patterns necessarily stirs up difficult feelings for us. It is not a question of if we experience difficult feelings but of whether or not we can use them constructively, as a source of understanding.</em>”</div> <div> </div> <div>Come along with Melanie as she learns more about psychoanalysis in this light-hearted (honest!) episode.</div> <div> </div> <div><em>Jon <span class="il">Baskin</span>’s website here: </em><a href="https://www.baskinpsychotherapy.com/" target="_blank"