Daniel T. Bourne

Daniel Bourne
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If you are interested in psychology and psychoanalysis, you might enjoy some of the content on this channel. This is a space where I post conversations with mental health professionals, review psychoanalytic material, encourage collaboration across psychodynamic camps, and more. You can find transcripts being posted on my website: danieltbourne.com

  1. Sep 4

    Jung and Phenomenology with Roger Brooke, PhD

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Roger Brooke joins us to discuss his book, Jung and Phenomenology. We hope you enjoy. Jung and Phenomenology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415097126?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback AI Generated Description: What if phenomenology is a radically practical way to see guilt, dreams, symbols, and therapy more clearly? In this conversation, Roger Brooke explores how a phenomenological lens changes our understanding of psychology and Jungian thought from the way guilt appears differently to a priest, a policeman, or a therapist, to why the “elephant in the room” may be the most important phenomenon present. Daniel guides the discussion through Brooke’s book Jung and Phenomenology, examining phenomenology as a method of setting aside assumptions and studying experience on its own terms. Brooke shares vivid clinical examples to explain how mood, interpretation, and unconscious patterns shape the world we inhabit. Together, they explore: What phenomenology is and how it can be used in psychotherapy Why therapists should listen more and hold theory lightly How guilt becomes a whole way of being in the world The relationship between Jung and phenomenological psychology The distinction between psyche and mind How dreams and nightmares reveal what is calling for our attention Why archetypes are better understood as potentials for being in the world The transformative power of symbols The embodied nature of psychological experience Jung’s concept of synchronicity and its philosophical limitations Ancestral presence, object relations, and the meaning of lived experience This is a rich and provocative conversation about how meaning appears in everyday life and why psychology can miss something essential when it reduces experience to theory alone. A thought-provoking listen for anyone interested in Jung, phenomenology, depth psychology, psychotherapy, symbolism, dreams, and the nature of the psyche.

  2. Aug 4

    The Only Cure with Mark Solms

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US "The talking cure is still the only real one we have in psychiatry." Grendon Haines, an Adlerian, critiques Mark Solms in The Only Cure in a post for The Guardian. You can find it here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/23/its-about-time-psychotherapists-started-to-ask-the-right-questions Purchase your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Only-Cure-Neuroscience-Mental-Healing/dp/B0FWZXMHF1/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0 AI generated description: Talk therapy is not just comforting, it may be the only treatment that actually changes the cause of suffering. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Mark Solms explains why so many modern psychiatric treatments only suppress symptoms, why the symptoms return when the treatment stops, and why emotional healing depends on learning better ways to meet your deepest needs. Solms is the author of The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing, and in this conversation, he makes a bold case: mental illness is best understood as a problem of unmet emotional needs, not just chemical imbalance. He breaks down why feelings are biological signals, how childhood strategies become automatic defenses, and why psychotherapy can create lasting change long after treatment ends. You’ll discover: - why symptoms are not the same as causes in psychiatry - how fear, separation distress, rage, and guilt map onto basic emotional needs - why some coping strategies are really defenses that temporarily mask pain - how mourning, attachment, and ambivalence shape relationships and depression - why neuroscience and psychoanalysis are not rivals, but different ways of understanding the same mind Daniel and Solms also tackle the bigger controversies: the limits of psychopharmacology, what Freud got right and wrong, whether emotions are “secondary” or primary, and why the brain’s seven basic emotional systems may offer a better framework for diagnosis than the DSM. If you want a sharper way to think about anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and the real purpose of psychotherapy, this episode is essential listening. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    The Only Cure with Mark Solms

  3. Jul 3

    Vera Camden on Literature & Psychoanalysis

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Vera J. Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University, and a training and supervising analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. Her work focuses on the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis, and she edited The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis, bringing together leading scholars to explore how literary texts and psychoanalytic theory continue to illuminate one another. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Vera Camden on Literature & Psychoanalysis

  4. Apr 3

    Jeffrey Berman, PhD, on Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Writing

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Jeffrey Berman's primary teaching and research interests are in literature and psychoanalysis, the twentieth century novel, trauma theory, suicide, self-disclosing writing and pedagogy. Berman, Jeffrey (1985). The Talking Cure: Literary Representations of Psychoanalysis. Berman, Jeffrey (1990). Narcissism and the novel. Berman, Jeffrey (2012). Dying to Teach: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning. Berman, Jeffrey (2019). Writing the Talking Cure: Irvin D. Yalom and the Literature of Psychotherapy. Berman, Jeffrey; Mosher, Paul W. (2019). Off the tracks: cautionary tales about the derailing of mental health care. Berman, Jeffrey (2021). The art of caregiving in fiction, film, and memoir. Berman, Jeffrey (2022). Norman N. Holland: The Dean of American Psychoanalytic Literary Critics. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalytic Memoirs. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective. Berman, Jeffrey (2024). Freudians and Schadenfreudians: Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Jeffrey Berman, PhD, on Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Writing

  5. Mar 12

    Freud and Trauma Theory - Karl Stukenberg, PhD

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Karl Stukenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, has been a faculty member at Xavier for over 25 years. His undergraduate education was at St. John’s College – the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was trained as a Clinical Psychologist at The Ohio State University, with an Internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His three years of post-doctoral training were in psychological assessment and treatment in tertiary care settings at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. Once at Xavier, he trained to become a psychoanalyst at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. We hope you enjoy this conversation. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Freud and Trauma Theory - Karl Stukenberg, PhD

  6. Jan 2

    Sandra Steingard, MD, on her Deconstruction of Psychiatry

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Sandra Steingard, M.D. is an American psychiatrist, long-time leader in community mental health, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. She served for many years as Chief Medical Officer at the Howard Center in Vermont and is a prominent voice in the critical psychiatry movement, editing the book Critical Psychiatry: Controversies and Clinical Implications and serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Community Mental Health Journal. Her work focuses on re-examining mainstream psychiatric assumptions, integrating lived experience, and promoting thoughtful, humane approaches to care. Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Sandra Steingard, MD, on her Deconstruction of Psychiatry

  7. 12/05/2025

    Chemically Imbalanced? An Interview with Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author based at University College London. Her work examines the foundations of modern psychiatric practice, especially our assumptions about how psychiatric drugs work and why we use them. For decades, the dominant idea has been the disease-centred model: the view that mental disorders are caused by underlying chemical abnormalities, and medications correct those abnormalities. Moncrieff's research challenges this perspective. Instead, she proposes the drug-centred model, which understands psychiatric drugs as substances that create altered mental and emotional states. She views these as states that may sometimes suppress or shift distress, but do not “fix” an underlying chemical imbalance. She is the author of several books, including The Myth of the Chemical Cure, The Bitterest Pills, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, and her most recent, Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. You can find this here: https://www.amazon.com/Chemically-Imbalanced-Making-Unmaking-Serotonin-ebook/dp/B0F6PV3KDW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._zaXX8KNlICSU-AUiQzNDq7bgfP19KkXt4L2eCTNmrg.DbyYPE6F4dskAkKDMhKIOqnSJHBeZWjCUnL6pw-BZEM&qid=1764018539&sr=8-2 Her website: https://joannamoncrieff.com/ Critical Psychiatry Network (of which she is a co-chair): https://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/about-us/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Chemically Imbalanced? An Interview with Psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff

  8. 11/07/2025

    Ashok Bedi, MD, Jungian Psychoanalysis and the East

    To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Dr. Ashok Bedi is a Jungian psychoanalyst and board-certified psychiatrist, trained in India, Great Britain, and the United States. He serves as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin, a faculty member at the Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago, and a psychiatrist within the Aurora Health Care Network. With over thirty years of practice in Milwaukee, he specializes in adult psychotherapy and Jungian analysis, integrating spirituality and healing in his work. Dr. Bedi is the author of several books on psychology and spirituality and lectures internationally, also leading Jungian training programs and study groups in India. Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ashok-Bedi/author/B001K8AWZE?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=50f31ee6-3086-449a-a224-6b5eda1e1d3d Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.

    Ashok Bedi, MD, Jungian Psychoanalysis and the East
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If you are interested in psychology and psychoanalysis, you might enjoy some of the content on this channel. This is a space where I post conversations with mental health professionals, review psychoanalytic material, encourage collaboration across psychodynamic camps, and more. You can find transcripts being posted on my website: danieltbourne.com

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    Daniel Bourne
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
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