Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stupid man who blundered into an idea too big for him: the phenomena of suggestion and suggestibility. A Frenchman, Jean Martin Charcot, demonstrated that hypnotism could both arouse and quiet symptoms of hysteria. Charcot also bid for fame as the teacher of a Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud (rhymes with overjoyed...
...Freud was, without any dispute, the father of modern psychiatry. He started fights that are still raging; but every psychiatrist, pure Freudian or not, admits his debt to the master. During the past 25 years, Freud's ideas have in some way influenced-or thrilled or outraged-almost every literate person on earth...
...Before Freud, psychiatrists had worked on the "insane." They did not bother with-in fact, they knew almost nothing about-the infinitely larger number of people who weave a miserable course halfway between the mad and the crotchety. After taking his M.D., Freud "specialized in structural diseases of the nervous system. He was fascinated by patients who had "pains," but no structural disorders-i.e., neurotics. The key problem with a neurotic patient, he decided, was to get him to "remember" things that had been "forgotten"-not forgotten in the usual sense, but "repressed"' because they were too painful...
...Freud did a lot of listening to his patients' troubles before he talked about his theories. Most of the human mind, he announced, is like an iceberg. Just as most of the iceberg is out of sight under water, most of the mind is buried deep in the Unconscious. The mind, Freud said, is divided into three parts...
Most personality disorders are caused by conflicts-conscious or unconscious- between selfish desires (the Id), what society demands (the Ego), and what you think is right (the Superego). So Freud concluded, and so most psychiatrists agree...