8:32 mins – Before providing the therapy, one must know how to describe it. This describes basic concepts and how to frame the process to the patient who may benefit from it.

12:10 mins – A common mistake of registrars is to try to dive straight into therapy without appropriate decision-making regarding patient selection. This will help you avoid those pitfalls.

6:50 mins – There are over 150 models of psychotherapy, but all of them are centred around two entities. This lecture will describe them, and explain how they underpin the other elements of therapy.

10:56 mins – Everything that can go wrong in therapy will usually be traced back to these two issues. This lecture describes how to set up your therapy and understand why boundaries should sometimes be crossed.

8:09 mins – Conceptualising an entire human experience can be daunting for the new clinician. This lecture provides an intuitive approach to patient assessment.

10:44 mins – Once therapy has been proceeding for at least a few sessions, emotion management can be daunting for the new therapist. This provides an overview of the relevant processes and highlights the role of supervision.

7:08 mins – Once eschewed as a mere complication, we now recognize resistance as the “bread and butter” of psychodynamic psychotherapy. Basic concepts are outlined.

8:27 mins – Many do not understand the role for psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychiatric practice as a whole. The development of the third observer – and how to cultivate it – addresses this query.

16:36 mins – Defense mechanisms are one of the few model-independent concepts in psychodynamic psychotherapy. This provides an outline and discusses fundamentals.

10:21 mins – The most critical elements of the psychotherapy case are the hardest to conceptualise. This lecture discusses an approach to formulation and explains critical mechanisms

12:23 mins – This lecture discusses a popular technique for thinking about psychodynamic formulation, one that utilizes multiple models in an intelligent and accessible manner.

16:28 mins – A mainstay of psychotherapy, this lecture provides an approach for planning therapy and understanding indications for psychotherapeutic delivery, as well as providing guidance for the assessment of patients.

12:01 mins – Understanding the vast bulk of literature regarding the different models of therapy can be daunting. This lecture provides a simple overview, from a historical lens to help understand how and why they were developed.

9:03 mins – Continuing the discussion of models of therapy, this discusses further models. All of psychotherapy is about attachment and mentalisation – in simple terms, about connecting with your patient and improved mutual understanding – of pathology as well as humanity.