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Author Fayek, Ahmed

Title The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis
Published London : Karnac Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Problematiques -- pt. 2. Clinical -- pt. 3. Theory
Summary Psychoanalysis - the one that we are familiar with - started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria using hypnosis. They put together a theory of psychopathology based on two basic notions: conflicts between acceptable and unacceptable impulses (ideas, desires, fantasies, etc.), and the repression of the unacceptable impulses causing the formation of symptoms. Under hypnosis, the patients were given the chance to abreact the repressed, and the therapeutic endeavour was to allow catharsis, hence the origin of the term "catharsis theory" regarding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Form Electronic book
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