Advanced Clinical Social Work: Theory, Technique, & Praxis: Recent Episodes
Neil Gorman (DSW, LCSW)
Lectures and instruction for SWK-6521 Advanced Clinical Social Work. A course in the MSW program at Aurora University.
This Podcast-Lecture gets into the content of chapter 16 on BPD & Narcissistic personality disorder. I try to tie it to the content on ordinary psychosis from last week.
This Podcast-Lecture gets into the content of chapter 15 on Schizophrenia. I try to tie it to the content fon extra ordinary psychosis from last week.
Intro:
This episode talks more about the difference between neurotics and psychotics, with a special emphasis on the neurotic.
Content:
- Two types of neurotics
- The Other and neurosis
- Hysterics
- Obsessives
- Depression & neurosis
Music:
The intro song is Dark Places, by JR JR.
Intro:
This lecture says more about the use of empty v. full speech. It talks about two interventions a therapist can implement around full speech.
The interventions:
- The use of the short session
- The therapist abandoning the use of empty speech
The music:
At the start the song you hear is Afternoons & Coffee Spoons, by The Crash Test Dummies.
This lecture covers the content from the article "Are You Kicking Me Out?!" that you read last week. It gets into the use of the variable-length session as an intervention, when and how to use it, when not to use it, and the effects of full speech & transitioning from demand to desire.
Music:
- Intro music is Smile, by Mikky Ekko
- Next song is Arc of Time, by Bright Eyes
This lecture is mostly to supplement the content in chapter 16 of your book on personality disorders, with special attention to narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.
- Intro music is the song "The Hyem of the Big Wheel" by Massive Attack.
This fifth audio lecture talks about the difference between neurotic & psychotic structure and tries to explain the process that leads to a neurotic building a neurotic structure as opposed to a psychotic structure.
- The intro music is the song Panic, by The Smiths.
might interface with the ideas expressed in chapter 11 of your text. For a full description of the podcast please log into the course Moodle page.
Intro:
In this Podcast-Demonstration, I try to show one way that dreamwork might be done.
Content:
The person who told me their dream had never told me this dream before, so I had no idea what was coming.
Some things that would be good to pay attention to:
- How does only hearing the voices affect how you listen?
- What did you notice about the use of silence?
- What did you notice about the therapist's interventions?
This podcast lecture attempts to explain some aspects os Self-Psychology and explain some of what makes Self-Psychology different from classical psychoanalysis.
The first of two podcast-lectures for this week. It contains a bit about Ego Psychology and an introduction to Self Psychology.
Intro:
This is podcast-lecture 2 of 2 for this week, and it talks about the structural model (id, ego, super-ego).
Content:
Is "ego" a bad word?
Ego & Identity (the story we tell ourself about ourself)
Ego as air-traffic-control
Ego as a symptom (a way of believing we are in control of "the real" when we are not really in control)
Defense (against the real)
Intro:
This is an episode on the difference in insticnt & drive.
Content:
Humans are different from all other animals
Drives V. Instincts (Drives are not in the service of life)
Is all drive destructive? Is all drive a death-drive?
Jouissance (enjoyment) -- If we shutdown unconscious discourse we empower the drive
This podcast-lecture gets into the Shedler & Gorman reading for this week and tries to build up a better understanding of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis (or "psychodynamic" theory & practice... if you prefer).
This is the intro to the professor & the class podcat-lecture for SWK-6521 which is meeting in the summer term of 2020.
This lecture focuses on individuals with Bi-polar disorder. The lecture talks about the hurricane-force emotional winds they suffer from...
Lecture 010 talks about depression, In particular Freud's ideas on mourning, melancholia. It also covers Melanie Klein's ideas on paranoia vs depression. it finishes off with some thoughts on pessimism and cynicism. Enjoy.
In this podcast-lecture I talk about The Name-of-the-Father, castration, & the short session.
In this podcast-lecture I talk about the Borromean clinic, the difference between psychosis & neurosis, and the subtypes of neurotics (hysteric/obsessive) and psychotics (ordinary/exbltraordinary).