It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things.

Today it's thing number 61, 100 years of

psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud was in his heyday of influence in 1925. He published

a book that year called The Resistance to Psychoanalysis. Over the last century, of course, the field of study and of practice that Freud said in motion

has undergone many changes, including repudiation of some of Freud's own ideas.

Today, a variety of kinds of talk therapy are widely in use.

The American Psychological Association lists psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies

as one category, also behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, humanistic, gestalt, holistic,

integrative, and existential therapy as various primary examples. So let's talk about 100 years

of psychoanalysis

and psychotherapy with Paul Bloom,

Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto,

Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale.

He's the author or editor of eight books,

including most relevant to this segment,

Psych, the Story of the Human Mind,

which came out in 2023. He deals

not only with individual psychotherapy, but also the field's relationship to understanding

some of today's social and political concerns. And of course, we live at a time when

mental health crises of various kinds are considered widespread reflections of today's world.

Professor Bloom, thanks for joining us for this.

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