Psychoanalysis

Although neuroses are targeted by psychoanalysis, psychotherapy/counselling, or other psychiatric techniques, there is still controversy over whether even these professionals can perform accurate and reliable diagnoses, and whether many of the resulting treatments are also appropriate, effective and reliable. Some studies show no extra benefit gained from talk therapies when compared with other kinds of (untrained) ...

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Neurosis, Neurosis - Freud's definition, Neurosis - Effects and symptoms, Neurosis - Treatment, Neurosis - History and use of the term

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The school of Gestalt therapy was co-founded in the late 1940s to early 1950s by Fritz & Laura Perls, both of whom were originally traditional psychoanalysts; and Paul Goodman, a political writer and anarchist. The seminal work was Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality, published in 1951; co-authored by Fritz Perls, Paul Goodman, and Ralph Hefferline (a university psyc ...

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Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - General description, Gestalt therapy - Principal influences, Gestalt therapy - Being human, Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole, Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt, Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries, Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation, Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases, Gestalt therapy - Actuality, Gestalt therapy - Attention, Gestalt therapy - Responsibility, Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools, Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy, Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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Moreno created the psychodrama which was already a psychotherapy. Sigmund Freud wrote to him in several occasions. Psychoanalysts were interested in this method and adapted this to psychoanalysis principles. ...

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It is essential for the understanding of this movement to place it in historical context. A product of the post-war artistic insurgence, it developed in an era where quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis were beginning to flourish and change the entire Western civilization’s understating of the world and self-consciousness. The preceding art of Kandinsky and Mondrian, had attempted to detract itself from the portrayal of objects and instead tried to tingle and tantalize the emotions of the viewer. Action Art took this a step further, ...

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Action painting, Action painting - Historical context, Action painting - The unconscious act, Action painting - Action painters

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Jungian psychology (Analytical Psychology): System of psychoanalysis founded by psychiatrist and reincarnationist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), of Zurich, Switzerland.

Jungian psychology theory posits a collective unconscious, synchronicity, and life energy (libidinal energy, the primal energy). Jung held that studying the collective racial unconscious could enhance understanding of the individual unconscious.

(See also: Jungian psychology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Erik Erikson - Major works. Childhood and Society (1950) Young Man Luther. A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958) Gandhi's Truth: On the Origin of Militant Nonviolence (1969) Adulthood (edited book, 1978) Vital Involvement in Old Age (with J.M. Erikson and H. Kivnick, 1986) The Life Cycle Complete ...

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Erik Erikson - Major works. Childhood and Society (1950) Young Man Luther. A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958) Gandhi's Truth: On the Origin of Militant Nonviolence (1969) Adulthood (edited book, 1978) Vital Involvement in Old Age (with J.M. Erikson and H. Kivnick, 1986) The Life Cycle Complete ...

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Erik Erikson, Erik Erikson - Biography, Erik Erikson - Erikson's Theory of Personality, Erik Erikson - Critique of Erikson, Erik Erikson - Works, Erik Erikson - Major works, Erik Erikson - Collections, Erik Erikson - Related works

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Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, most psychoanalytic organizations have existed outside of the university setting, with a few notable exceptions. Psychoanalytic training usually occurs at a psychoanalytic institute and may last approximately 4-10 years. Training includes coursework, supervised psychoanalytic treatment of patients, and personal psychoanalysis lasting 4 or more years. Most psychoanalytic institutes require that applicants already possess a graduate degree. Applicants usually have degrees in clinical soci ...

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Psychoanalysis was first devised in Vienna in the 1890s by Sigmund Freud, a neurologist interested in finding an effective treatment for patients with neurotic or hysterical symptoms. As a result of talking with these patients, Freud came to believe that their problems stemmed from culturally unacceptable, thus repressed and unconscious, desires and fantasies of a sexual nature. As his theory developed, he included desires and fantasies of an aggressive nature as well. Freud considered these aspects of life instinctive drives, Libidinal Ener ...

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Psychonalysis has been criticized on a variety of grounds by Karl Popper, Adolf Grünbaum, Peter Medawar, Ernest Gellner, Frank Cioffi, Frederick Crews, and others. Popper argues that it is not scientific because it is not falsifiable. Grünbaum argues that it is falsifiable, and in fact turns out to be false. Exchanges between critics and defenders of psychoanalysis have often been so heated that they have come ...

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The basic method of psychoanalysis is the transference and resistance analysis of free association. The patient, in a relaxed posture, is directed to say whatever comes to mind. Dreams, hopes, wishes, and fantasies are of interest, as are recollections of early family life. Generally the analyst simply listens, making comments only when, in his or her professional judgment, an opportunity for insight on the part of the patient arises. In listening, the analyst attempts to maintain an attitude of empathic neutrality, a nonjudgmental stance de ...

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Psychoanalysis is: A therapeutic technique for the treatment of neurosis. A technique used to train psychoanalysts. A basic requirement of psychoanalytic training is to undergo a successful analysis. A technique of critical observation. The successors and contemporaries of Freud—Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Reich, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Jacques Lacan, and many others—have developed Freud's theories and advanced new theories using the basic method of quiet critical observation and study of individu ...

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Psychoanalysis - Critiques of psychoanalysis. Erwin, Edward, A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology ISBN 0262050501 Gellner, Ernest, The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. A critical view of Freudian theory. ISBN 0810113708 Grünbaum, Adolf, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique ISBN 0520050177 Macmillan, Malcolm, and Frederick Crews, Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc ISBN 0262631717 ...

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Psychoanalysis - Play Therapy for different ages. Psychoanalytic constructs can be adapted and modified to both age and managed care through the use of play therapy such as art therapy, creative writing, Sand Tray Therapy, storytelling, bibliotherapy, and analytical psychodrama. In the 1920's, Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud's daughter) adapted psychoanalysis for children through play. Using toys and games, she was able to enhance relationship with the child - Freud has been criticized for his, objective and disengaged ...

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Psychoanalysis - Critiques of psychoanalysis. Erwin, Edward, A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology ISBN 0262050501 Gellner, Ernest, The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason. A critical view of Freudian theory. ISBN 0810113708 Grünbaum, Adolf, The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique ISBN 0520050177 Macmillan, Malcolm, and Frederick Crews, Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc ISBN 0262 ...

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