Doctor of Your Mind: The PsychMusicVidz Challenge

Humanistic forms of therapy seek to equalize the playing field between "client" and psychologist, or mental health professional.  Rather than approaching "clients" as aloof, and/or as the "expert," humanistic forms of treatment have therapists self-disclosing and interacting with the patients more like an equal or a peer. 

In traditional, Freudian-based psychoanalytic orientations, the doctor embraced the mystique characteristic of the archetypal shaman figure or healer.   Yes, it created and/or reinforced dependency in the patient, and allowed for paternal projections to abound, but this type of transference, this type of dependency on the all-knowing doctor (especially in early stages of the therapy), and this sort of mystique was deemed useful and valuable to the developmental progression of the therapy process.  Rather than robbing the patient of his/her projections, Freudian-based psychoanalytical therapists used/use the transference to make important therapeutic advances.  It's the fuel that keeps the therapeutic engine running. 

It is from this perspective that the following song is written.  Your job, as the producer-in-training of a brand new PsychMusicVid to go with the song, DOCTOR OF YOUR MIND, will be to translate the lyrics into visual patterns that are consistent with what the lyrics and the music are attempting to convey. 

Doctor of Your Mind
Dr BLT (the GL redux mix)
words and music by Dr Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr BLT copyright 2011

 

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