The History of Psychology and The Formation of Psychology as a Science The subject of general psychology is the characteristics and mechanisms of functioning of the psyche. In the process of formation of psychology as a science occurred a number of changes in the subject of psychology. The First Stage. Antiquity - the subject of psychology is the soul. [...]

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 [...]

The period of compulsive neurosis is acute or chronic. Acute cases are triggered by external circumstances. These circumstances are the same as that provoked other neuroses. They mobilize the repressed sexual conflicts of the infantile period, violate the existing up to that time balance between the preemptive and the repressed forces, produce a relative or absolute increase of rejected instincts or opposing anxiety. Compulsive neurosis arises under the influence of precipitating factors in those who suffered in childhood anal-sadistic regression. This regression has absorbed, but only a small amount of libido, genital was [...]

Typical at the changing nature of compulsive neurosis is not always directly caused by regression. It is also determined, followed by regression, jet formations, isolation and cancellation. Using these mechanisms, however, depends on the pathognomonic regression, as reaction formation, isolation and cancellation are directed more against pregenital strivings, while the actual regression has more to do with [...]