How Antabuse Works in Alcoholism Treatment. Disulfiram (Antabuse) is used as a supplementary treatment for alcoholism. In combination with alcohol disulfiram causes the so-called antabuse reaction, which in mild cases, manifests small indisposition in the severe – a feeling of heat, throbbing headache, feeling of lack of air and dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, sweating, chest pain, palpitation, hypotension, [...]

Emil Kraepelin is considered the father of modern diagnostic classification, where he tried to study those who suffer from emotional disorders and disturbances in thinking, in order to identify common symptoms and general characteristics. In addition, he developed a theory of their cause, allocating treatable and incurable illnesses. It is interesting that he included a [...]

The psychological development of women In the 1970’s in psychology and psychotherapy along with ongoing publications in traditional concepts – psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, behaviorism – there are new materials and approaches: psychologists, psychotherapists have begun to investigate the influence of the sex factor in the psychological development of women. They were divided in 2 groups, [...]

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 [...]