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American Views on Anna Freud (Part I)
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The Vienna School of Psychoanalysis with its creator and main proponent Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) triggered significant interest in the U.S. and became particularly prominent when Freud visited the U.S. in 1909. Psychoanalytically interested Americans started to flock to Vienna after World War I until the Nazis took charge of the metropolis in 1938. By then, Sigmund Freud had already left the city and the country along with his daughter Anna (1895-1982) and many of their (often Jewish) friends and patients. People with American and English passports, among them many Jewish medical students and faculty members as well as physicians coming to Vienna via the American Medical Association of Vienna, had returned to their home countries and helped endangered colleagues and friends as best as they could with affidavits to escape the increasingly hostile, violent, and highly anti-semitic atmosphere.
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Everything done wrong, for the past few years?
Even Leon Eisenberg, who discovered ADHD, is said to have regretted how much he helped to rise and develop ADHD at his deathbed. Rather than focusing on neuropathology, it is necessary to examine the psychosocial circumstances of the children.
So please let’s start again!
Last night, at Pool7, the venue of the Green Circle, the Viennese psychoanalyst and educational adviser Prof. Helmuth Figdor presented his thoughts on ADHD. The event was characterized by the extremely keen interest of the attendants.
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Sigmund Freud´s return to Vienna
On June 4, a sculpture of Sigmund Freud created by Oscar Nemon was unveiled on the campus of the Medical University of Vienna. Prior to the unveiling, we talked to Sigmund Freud’s great-grandson Lord David Freud and Lady Aurelia Young, the sculptor’s daughter.
Interview with Lord David Freud:
What is your relationship with Vienna?
Lord David Freud: It´s a very complicated relationship because my father (Anton Walter Freud) and the rest of the family was thrown out of Vienna, and it was the fundamental cause of an underlying insecurity for him. It was very character-forming in a not very positive way. My father was very insecure wherever he lived. He never felt quite at home, that he belonged in the UK. He never really forgave the Austrians for throwing him out...
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SIGMUND FREUD and ANGELOS KATAKOUZENOS / SIGMUND FREUD-ΑΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΚΟΥΖΗΝΟΣ
Two famous psychiatrists, who loved art and whose homes were made into museums.
Angelos Katakouzenos (1904-1982) was a pioneer and representative of the psychiatric science, as well as one of the greatest Greek intellectuals of the 20th century, who admired and respected the work of Sigmund Freud, ...
ΔΥΟ ΔΙΑΣΗΜΟΙ ΨΥΧΙΑΤΡΟΙ ΠΟΥ ΑΓΑΠΟΥΣΑΝ ΤΗΝ ΤΕΧΝΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΣΠΙΤΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ ΕΓΙΝΑΝ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΑ
Άγγελος Κατακουζηνός (1904-1982): από τους πρωτοπόρους εκπροσώπους της ψυχιατρικής επιστήμης, αλλά και τους επιφανέστερους πνευματικούς ανθρώπους της ελληνικής διανόησης του 20ου αιώνα, που θαύμαζε και σεβόταν το έργο του πατέρα της ψυχανάλυσης Sigmund Freud, ...
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Transgenerational Trauma (Part I)
"Trauma is contagious“, states Judith Herman pointing towards the relationship between mental illness and how it is structurally passed on within different types of relationships. Freud already addressed the transgenerationally transmitted emotional processes in his book “Totem and Taboo”. He argues that
“[…] we may safely assume that no generation is able to conceal any of its more important mental processes from its successor. For psycho-analysis has shown us that everyone possesses in his unconscious mental activity an apparatus which enables him to interpret other people’s reactions, that is, to undo the distortions which other..."
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"Normopathy" as social aberration - Psychodynamics of the bandwagon syndrome
Author: Hans-Joachim Maaz
"Normopathy" refers to a social aberration whose collective pathology is no longer perceived or accepted because a majority of the population consistently thinks and acts in relation to the socially dominant values.
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„When it rains in Paris, it drizzles in Brussels”
Author: Sabrina Zehetner (TVP)
We put psychoanalysis in Belgium under the magnifying glass.
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The development of libido / Lo sviluppo della libido
Author: Gabriella Papadia
From the dissolution of the oedipal complex to the development of several attachment styles.
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The psychoanalysis of the Viennese Sigmund Freud and its significant value for modern man
Author: Helmut Luft
Sigmund Freud lived in Vienna from 1860 to 1938 where he gained insights that would change the world.
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"When people recount their dreams, they don´t talk about the hippocampus."
Author: Ariane Bazan / Sabrina Zehetner (TVP)
The golden age of Neuroscience has arrived while Psychoanalysis is still struggling with its bad reputation - Is Neuropsychoanalysis a threat or an ally in the fight for credibility?
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Essay on Separation
Author: Kamiar-K. Rueckert
In 1958, the English pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott wrote an insightful essay named „The capacity to be alone“, in which he puts this precise capacity as the most important sign of emotional development and thereby maturity.
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What about the Nothingness between destroying and building? (Part I)
Author: Julia Skip-Schrötter
On the destruction of monuments in times of upheaval, using the example of the Revolution of Dignity 2013/2014 in the Ukraine
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