Word: freudians
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...course’s textbook calls Freud’s influence on the field of psychology "considerable," but adds that "today relatively few psychologists follow Freudian thinking...
TIME: Your book describes your introduction to, and then immersion in, a new kind of dream interpretation. Only it's not really dream interpretation, is it, at least in the classic Freudian sense...
...offered blunt guidance for patients: Forget "god- awful pasts," face fears and change actions. In this way the rebellious author of more than 70 books, including the best-selling Sex Without Guilt, planned to "cure every screwball in New York, one at a time." Starting in the 1960s, when Freudian therapy was the rage, critics attacked Ellis' rational, short-term approach as superficial. Still, the treatment has been shown to be effective for many in tackling depression, anxiety and other ailments. Ellis...
...talk. How is it that we are still a month from commencement but it feels like we’re both already done with school? For four years our bodies have quivered in anticipation as we await the intellectual menarche of receiving our diplomas, but now no amount of Freudian exploration can get us pumped up to receive those tightly coiled cylinders of academic hubris. I had always assumed I would attend my own graduation, but then again, maybe I won’t. DA hardly spends anytime at school anymore, flying between cities negotiating a record deal...
...seemed to Solms that dreams must themselves be associated with driving urges-a very Freudian take-but he needed more evidence in the form of more people with lesions in this particular spot. Nowadays, damage to that part of the brain is rare, normally a result of strokes or tumors. But it was a lot more common in the '50s and '60s when some mental illnesses were treated by removing it in an operation called a prefrontal leukotomy. Solms waded through the literature and found hundreds of case studies in which the effects of this procedure were described...