The famous psychologist and psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote that an experienced psychotherapist feels the potential of personal growth and development of the patient. The work of the psychologist is to encourage this growth rather than impose the patient his own past experience or vision. Under this angle we must considered the demand of Freud, that [...]

Karen Horney, a successful psychologist and psychotherapist, said that the desire to revise psychoanalysis (that Freud developed) arose from “dissatisfaction of therapeutic results” (1939). In “New Ways in Psychoanalysis” she re-defined the transference and counter-transference of psychotherapy but in “Introspection” she described the process of analysis according to the new paradigm. The psychologist Karen Horney [...]

(1896-1980) The famous psychologist, Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) on August 9, 1896. He died in Geneva on September 16, 1980. He was the eldest child of Arthur Piaget, professor of medieval literature at the University, and Rebecca Jackson. At age of 11, when he was a pupil at Neuchatel Latin School, he [...]

“Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialised abilities for thinking about a variety of things.” – Lev Vygotsky, Mind in Society, 1978 Lev Vygotsky is best known for: -       Zone of proximal development – ZPP (proximate development area) -       Socio-cultural theory Lev Vygotsky was born on the [...]

The Psychologist Abraham Maslow – Theory Of Human Needs Hierarchy Abraham Maslow (born on the 1st of April in 1908, dead on the 8th of June in 1970) was an American humanist psychologist. He is known for his proposal on his theory of human needs hierarchy. Life: He was born in Brooklyn, New York, as [...]