These films are intended to facilitate first encounters with Freud’s thought.
If you’re studying the psychodynamic approach, this resource is for you!
In this episode:
- Is psychoanalysis weird?
- A talking cure
- The unconscious
- The ego is not master in its own house
- Psychoanalysis and the ‘cognitive approach’
A factsheet (PDF) accompanies this series.
More episodes

What is Psychoanalysis? – Sexuality
Freud's account of sexuality was very different to mainstream ideas about it.

What is Psychoanalysis? – The Oedipus Complex
The emotional world of little children is not a peaceful world!

What is Psychoanalysis? – The Ego, the Id and the Superego
Freud discovered a mind at war with itself.