Biography, Life and Works Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856 in the small Austrian town of Freiberg, Moravia (in what is now Czech Republic). He was the eldest of seven children in his family, although his father, merchant wool, had two sons from a previous marriage, and he was already a grandfather at the time of the birth of Sigmund. When Freud was four, his family due to financial difficulties had moved to Vienna. Freud always lived in Vienna and in 1938, a year before [...]

One of the most important concepts for child psychology, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last years was the “attachment theory” developed by the British psychologist-psychoanalyst and psychiatrist John Bowlby (1907-1990). After graduating at Cambridge University in 1929, he began to work at a school for young offenders. Communicating with these children led him to believe that the main problems faced by them in the socialization process are connected with the violation of dialogue with parents, lack of warmth and care at an early age. While [...]

A significant impact on the development of depth psychology had the younger daughter of Sigmund Freud - Anna Freud (1895 - 1982). Although her first investigation in psychoanalysis appeared in the 1930s, the most interesting work as psychoanalyst appeared later. Anna Freud from early childhood have joined the research activities of her father, and served for many years as his secretary. In 1922 made ​​her first scientific paper, and was admitted to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. In 1938, after the occupation [...]

Another well-known psychologist and psychotherapist Otto Rank has been a long time one of the closest associates of the founder of psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud. However, the materials of practices of Rank as a psychologist and psychotherapist led him to the concept of transfer and the desire to modify the classical technique of psychoanalysis. In collaboration with Sándor Ferenczi, in the book ”The Development of Psychoanalysis” (1924), he proposed to give priority to the emotional rather than intellectual experience that led to the remoteness and later complete departure from Freud. Rank’s psychotherapy was [...]

Like Carl G. Jung and Alfred Adler, disagreed with Freud, creating their own concepts of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, such as his closest associates, psychologists Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) and O. Rank (1884-1939). W. Reich, starting his acquaintance with psychoanalysis in Vienna at the students’ seminar at the end of 1910s, soon began to develop his own concept, reforming, in particular, Freud’s ideas about the nature of neurosis. He argued that the cause of neurosis is congestive sexuality that occurs due to dysfunction of orgasm. So already in his first works, he talks [...]