Military and Mass Hysteria
Military and Mass Hysteria Ian P. Palmer ABSTRACT Hysteria and mass hysteria are as old as war itself. Debate about their origins has been informed by conflict through the ages….
Charcot and Psychogenic Movement Disorders
Charcot and Psychogenic Movement Disorders Christopher G. Goetz ABSTRACT In his neurologic unit at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot studied many patients who today would likely…
Freud and Psychogenic Movement Disorders
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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…
