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Drew Westen Psychology ttcWritten by Drew Westen
Format: MP3
“Human beings can’t just stick to the facts. Human beings always impose order on what they see. Beginning with the assertion that there are “no facts” in the study of psychology, Professor Drew Westen reveals the intriguing and varied ways that psychologists have explained reality.
For much of this century, we have accepted that Freud was to the mind what Newton had been to the physical universe, having mapped the topography of the psyche and having explained the movement of the forces within it. The reverence for Freud has waned with the rise of other perspectives on the understanding and treatment of disorders, which suggests a different model of human mental life.
8 lectures
45 minutes/lecture