Lives Transformed. Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Reported and Recorded (2025)

Why is therapy not a car wash?

Based on Mark Kinet's Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Reported and Recorded, this virtual conversation explores what psychotherapy looks like through the eyes of those who have actually undergone it. The book begins and ends with a survey of psychoanalytic principles that organise clinical practice. Then we hear the patients' stories in their own 2500 words.

Drawing on 38 patient testimonies, two virtual hosts discuss therapeutic change, emotional insight, human connection, and the complex process through which people come to understand themselves differently.

A unique exploration of psychotherapy from the patient's perspective—where outcomes are measured not only in symptoms reduced, but also in lives transformed.

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Patient Testimonies of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Reported and Recorded

Visit ⁠Mark Kinet ⁠for books, articles, and further resources.Current Psychoanalysis brings together more than 35 books and other writings by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet. Each episode explores how unconscious meaning, personal history, and the therapeutic relationship illuminate psychiatry, psychotherapy, and culture. Two virtual hosts discuss carefully selected texts, translating complex psychoanalytic ideas into clear, engaging conversations while remaining remarkably faithful to the original work. For clinicians, students, and anyone curious about the human mind.