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One of the basic tenets of psychoanalysis has to do with the notion that in order to know the other, one must first know oneself ?
“I know you to the extent that I know my self”.
(Edited by Dr. María Moya Guirao, MD)
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Child-guidance Clinics
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In the field of Psychiatry one of the most significant event was the creation of child- guidance clinics ?
It started with William Healy in 1909 in the institute devoted to the study of juvenile problems in Chicago.
William Healy (1869-1963) was a psychiatrist and one of the founder of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He published in 1915 an famous book entitled “The Individual Delinquent”, result of his historical research investigations of several institutions for delinquents.
Healy also contributed to introduce the Psychoanalysis in America and the theories of Sigmund Freud.
(Edited by Dr. María Moya Guirao, MD)
The Psychoanalytic Theory
The Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis is a depth psychology and gives especial significance to pre-conscious and un-conscious psychic activities.
Freud affirmed present behavior can only be understood in terms of past environmental experiences,
He published two important books : “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality” and “Interpretation of Dreams“, He wrote in this papers about infantile sexuality .
The children libido seen to go through distinct phases of development. in each phase there is characteristic pleasurable bodily zones :
- The oral phase Lasts from birth until one-and-a-half years of age. The most important pleasurable activity is sucking
- The anal phase occurs between one-and-a-half to three years.The most important source of bodily pleasure comes from anus.
- The fallic phase last from the thirth to seventh year. After this phase comes the latency period until the beginning of puberty, age about twelve .
(Edited by Dr. María Moya Guirao, MD)
Psychoanalysis and early experiences
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Psychoanalysis underlines the importance of early emotional experiences for later psychological disturbances ?
Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud to cure mental disorders.
The Austrian psychiatrist Freud showed that neurotic symptoms were due to traumatic experiences lived by the patients. According to Sigmund Freud many conflicting thoughts or feelings were repressed and remained in the unconscious.
(Edited by Dr. María Moya Guirao, MD)
Oedipus Complex
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for Psychoanalysis the Oedipus complex is the love to the mother and hostile rivalry to the father ?
Sigmund Freud, the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, discovered two trends in childhood (3 to 5 years) love the opposite sex parent and hostility to same-sex parent. That is, the child experiences a keen love for his mother, who is at that time the female person more worthy of interest. Simultaneously experiencing aggression against his father, which sees a successful rival, whose strength the child admires and envy.
Girls also experience it, but love is directed toward the father and hostility toward the mother.
Sigmund Freud took the name Oedipus Complex from Greek mythology.
(Edited by Dr. María Moya Guirao, MD)