Hi everyone. It's Dr. Niger again. Our next episode of Psychology and Plugged. Hope you guys all

had a great week. Thank you to everybody who has reached out and continues to reach out with

topics and suggestions. As I said before, I use Buzzsprout as our platform to do the podcast,

but if you try to get a hold of me that way, I can't respond. So I will give you different methods to get a hold of me at the end of this episode,

as I always do. And if I haven't gotten back to you, please continue to try and reach out.

I will do my best. I know there's some students

who want to talk about the Roar Shock and still want to get around to the impacts of working

in the mental health field and any trauma or acute stress- related artifacts for workers who are in this field.

So there's, again, there's no shortage of topics, but thank you.

And we'll start with this week.

And I'm going to circle back to one of the topic that is most often asked about and talked about,

and I find to be incredibly interesting and one that I primarily focus on in treatment is borderline personality disorder,

but from what's called a psychodynamic perspective.

Now, psychodynamic does not equate with psychoanalytic.

That is Freudian theory.

Psychodynamic is more about how we conceptualize an individual.

And this goes beyond just a case formulation and meeting diagnostic criteria, but looking at all of the different mechanisms that contribute to borderline personality, any of the personality disorders,

depression, anxiety, possibly bipolarity, OCD, hoarding, a whole variety of psychological conditions.

And, you know, psychodynamic theory was based very much in the work of Alfred

Adler, which was the, you know, the ontogenesis and etiology for cognitive behavioral therapy.

But it's really, how do we look at the different psychological

factors from a dynamic standpoint, meaning that, you know, there's multiple levels that are all

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