Freud and Psychogenic Movement Disorders W. Craig Tomlinson ABSTRACT Freud, a neurologist and neuroscientist by training, became interested in hysteria initially as a student of Jean-Martin Charcot in the 1880s….
Therapy and Cure I: Drive and Ego Psychologies “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” —from Constitution…
Therapy and Cure II: The Relational Psychologies “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” —Oscar Wilde LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: List the therapeutic…
Affect and Psychopathology “What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array through the always hostile country!…
Self Psychology “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.” — William Shakespeare LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: Define self and selfobject from the…
Object Relations Theory “Very few people love others for what they are; rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.” — Johann Wolfgang…
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis “One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking…
Ego Psychology “Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.” — Daniel Webster LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will…
Dissent: Alfred Adler and Carl Jung “There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The…
Drive Psychology “Passions are generally roused from great conflict.” —Titus Livius (Livy) LEARNING OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to: Define the fundamental hypotheses of psychodynamic psychology. Describe the major…
