This 90 minute live seminar will utilize interactive surveys, short exercises and an immersive lecture to :

1. Introduce us to the very important history of mental illness before modern psychotherapy was created

2. Describe how psychodynamic psychotherapy was invented by Sigmund Freud (and the cultural context i.e. the zeitgeist of society in Freud's time) and why it was such a boon to civilization (with an emphasis on women's rights)

3. Discuss why the origin story matters and what aspects are still relevant in modern day practice of psychotherapy. It will help dispel common myths and misbeliefs about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis itself.

4. It will offer practical guidelines about how to explain concepts from psychodynamic psychotherapy (castration anxiety, penis envy etc)  to patients, colleagues and lay people.