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...good old days of Sigmund Freud! You reported that his understanding of the complexity and mystery of the human mind has been unsurpassed. He insisted that the human condition is more than mental health or illness, that it is both tragic and majestic in scope. We have better living through chemistry and self-help bromides for happiness. As a no-longer-practicing therapist, I have seen the rise of the so-called dramatic cluster of personality disorders. Have you noticed an increase in such disorders in our political and corporate leaders as we witness their unbridled narcissism and antisocial traits...
...many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the bulb, and one to hold the penis...I mean ladder! Although Sigmund Freud isn't exactly famous for his sense of humor, he actually liked jokes--in fact, he wrote a book about them, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. But he probably wouldn't have liked that one. Freudian psychoanalysis was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, and only 50 years ago, it was a mainstay of mental-health care. But since then it has gone from a medical...
...hope of finding a place in modern mental-health care, however, its practitioners are trying to change with the times. One way they're doing that is by dropping the austere, formal pose of the classic Freudian analyst. "The image of Sigmund Freud sitting there smoking on his pipe is nothing like the modern 21st century analyst," says Kerry Sulkowicz, chairman of the committee on public information at the American Psychoanalytic Association. In modern psychoanalysis, that formal reserve is disappearing, and the analyst's personality comes much more into play in treatment. "The process is far more transparent today," says...
...interested in homo-sexuality as part of interest in criminology.” Gilkey said he had read parts of Havelock Ellis’ multi-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex and a great deal of Sex Inversion as well as studying Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. The following year, Gilkey said, he planned to take Anthropology 3: “Criminology...
...vogue for psychoanalysis was running high in those years, and Bernays acknowledges the seminal influence of her great-uncle Sigmund: "In many ways, the 20th century--and probably the 21st as well--is indebted to him for so many things, for the way we think about things." Yet she deplores the practices of many of his therapist followers. "They have you coming and going," she says. "If you say, I really was dreaming of a baby, then they say, No, if you dream of a baby, that means you want to write a book. If you want to write...