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 [...]
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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 [...]
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was born in the small Swiss town Kesvil, the son of a Protestant clergyman. His father paid great attention to the training and education of Charles, and despite the relative poverty of his family, he found an opportunity to give his son the possibility to learn [...]
Augustine (354-430) is a religious thinker. In the heart of Augustine’s doctrine is the idea of the spiritual activity of the individual, which spirit controls both bodily and mental processes (sensation, memory, thinking, etc.); physiological substrate of these processes (the sense organs and brain) uses personality as an instrument of cognition. According to Augustine, all [...]
