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Amentia

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The term Amentia has had various connotations during the history of Psychiatry ?

Theodor Meynert, Freud‘s professor in medical school in Vienna, used it to describe the paranoid states.

Later the Viennese school used the term Amentia for acute hallucinatory confusion. At the present time, this term is used in relation to primary mental deficiency, and as diagnosis for “delirium“.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Ronald D. Laing Biography

Who is R"Retrato de Ronald D. Laing"onald D. Laing ?

Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) was a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He worked in the famous Tavistock Clinic where he researched the extreme disturbances in human communication, especially in psychotics patients.

Laing was concerned with the developing approaches to mental illness. He said that schizophrenia is created by certain forms of human behavior in different kinds of family.

He is considered also the father of the Anti-psychiatric movement.

Ronald D. Laing was the author of numerous books :

– Self and Others

– The Divided Self

– Sanity, Madness and the Family

– The Politics if the Family

– The Politics of Experience

– Knots

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Melanie Klein Biography

Who is Melanie Klein ?

Melanie Klein was a psychoanalyst born in Vienna in 1882 and died in London in 1960.

She started her training with Sándor Ferenczi, and later on with Karl Abraham.

In 1919 Melanie Klein presents a small work entitled “The family novel in status nascendi“, and became a member of the Psychoanalytic Society of Budapest.

Two years later Klein went to Berlin where she began a new analysis with Karl Abraham and joined the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society as a member. Result of her experience in the analysis of children Melanie Klein presented at the 8th Congress of Salzburg a paper entitled “The technique of analysis of children”, and months later she exhibited in Víena “Psychological Principles of Child Psychoanalysis“. In 1926 Melanie Klein settled in England where she became a member of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

Six years later (in 1932) this psychoanalyst publishes “Psychoanalysis of Children” where she presented her ideas about child psychoanalysis and the use of the game as a therapeutic resource. Melanie Klein tells us there how children express their fantasies and conflicts through the game. She discovered the use of toys in child therapy with a very silent child patient, the “Ludotherapy“. She analysed children, at that time a new field.

Melanie Klein contributions to psychoanalysis theory are :

a)-early stages of Oedipus complex and super-ego formation,

b)-early operation of introjective and projective mechanisms in building up the child’s inner word of fantasy,

c)-the concepts of paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions,

d)-clarification of the difference between two sorts of identification : introjective and projective.

e)-the importance of a very early form of envy.

Sigmund Freud was reluctant to accept the theories of this psychotherapist, and with his daughter Anna Freud maintained a constant controversy that divided the psychoanalysts in favor of the ideas of one or the other. Melanie Klein had the support of Ernest Jones, but not with such prestigious figures as Otto Fenichel, Franz Alexander and Sándor Rado, who also did not agree with her lack of academic qualifications.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Anxiety and Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud pioneered explorations into man’s inner life, discovered the role of unconscious phenomena (most particularly inner conflicts) in determining the sources of neurotic anxiety.

He recognized the crucial signihttp://psicoterapeutas.eu/wp-admin/post.php?post=5124&action=editficance of anxiety for the development of the individual and the elaboration of his neurotic and psychotic states.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Free Association

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Sigmund Freud used the technique of “free association” to replace hypnosis as a method of lessening resistance, and thus psychoanalysis emerged ?

The discovering of free association may be considered the beginning of analytic therapy.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Psychotherapy Experiencial of Whitaker

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Topic: Psychotherapy experiencial of Whitaker.

The Psychotherapy Experiencial of Whitaker is a modification of the orthodox psychoanalysis designed by an American psychoanalyst called Whitaker and his group of Emory University in Atlanta (USA), among that also the Dr. Malone deserves to be mentioned.

Whitaker was defining the psychotherapy as ” a situation where a person (therapist) acts catalyzing the process of growth of another (patient), and taking her to a major level of adaptative capacity “.

Also he was thinking that the psychotherapy would help in the process of personal growth, and they called her “experiencial” because it emphasis in the experience of the treatment itself and in the interrelationship therapist – patient, more than in the use of interpretations.

This psychoanalyst was the introductory one of the so called “Polytherapy” in which several therapists were using for the same patient.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Phobias and Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud introduced the dynamic conception of phobia ?

The psychoanalytic formulation of the phobic mechanism is contained in his paper “Obsessions and phobias : Their Psychical Mechanisms and Their Aetiology“, published in 1895, and his clinical study “Analysis of a Phobia in a Five Year-Old Boy” edited in 1909, and commonly known as the case of “Little Hans”.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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Abreaction

Breuer and Freud discovered that important events connected with the emotional life of the patient, which were forgotten, were expressed under hypnosis, was called “mental catharsis” and the process of affording an outlet for emotion in talking was called “abreaction“.

For Sigmund Freud the neurotic symptons are a product of unconscious conflicts.

(Edited by María Moya Guirao, MD)

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