...are metaphor is useful. Back to Table of Contents Metaphors of the Mind (Part II) Psychology and Psychotherapy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Storytelling has... ...tial theories – they all shared his belief in the need to "scientify" and objectify psychology. Freud – a medical doctor by profession (Neurologist)... ... a crucial matter. Consider the clash - however repressed - between psychiatry and psychology. The former regards "mental disorders" as euphemisms ... ...such as biochemical or electric imbalances) and of hereditary factors. The latter (psychology) implicitly assumes that something exists (the "mind"... ...methodological, systematic, analytic and predictive merits. Still, the theories in psychology are powerful instruments, admirable constructs of the... ...s transformed into narcissism and the reproductive instincts assume the garb of the Freudian sex drive. But Freud went a daring step forward by sugg... ...ven these basic questions receive no "dynamic" or "physical" treatment in classic (Freudian) psychoanalytic theory. So much for its pretensions to ... ...s "compensatory". The previous three functions are "complementary" and, therefore, Freudian. It would seem that we are all constantly engaged in m...

...y asking, and what its answer is. Two books by Jung can be very useful: “Psychology and Alchemy” and “The Psychology of Transference”. In addition... ...hian analyst E. Neuman introduced the concept of devouring mother, and the Freudian analyst Fairbairn introduced the concept of the castrating and s...

...ss before. The hundred thousand books of clichéd thoughts on spirituality, psychology and self-help available today offer you ways that are congenial... ...round was there in me. Then I started exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy, Eastern and Western, mysticism, all the mo... ... go to encounter groups or see psychiatrists and engage in what I call the Freudian fraud. In the end, their so-called growth will not bring them hap... ...ything possible. You have all these gimmicks—yoga, meditation and all the psychology. Your naturalness is something that you don't have to know. Y... ...s and the unconscious, awareness and the self, is all a product of modern psychology. The idea that you can use awareness to get somewhere psychologi... ...ove, compassion, understanding, bliss—all these things which religion and psychology have placed before man are only adding to the strain of the bod...

...JA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality Psychosexual Stages of Develo... ...netic Roots of Personality Disorders Defense Mechanisms B. Topics in Developmental Psychology The Narcissistic Parent The Narcissist’s Mother Bor... ...ity of the Defense The Author Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality First published here: "Per... ...s like "hysteria' are intimately connected to female physiology and alleged female psychology. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bibl... ...eaders: Implications for leadership evaluations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 48-59. "Competent women must also appear to be... ... "You see, the actual issue is really a simple one … a simple change in classical [Freudian] theory, which states that autoeroticism develops into ... ...he nurturance of children. Horney's great contribution was the concept of anxiety. Freudian anxiety is a rather primitive mechanism, a reaction to ... ...o Guntrip, who introduced a fourth Ego]. A schizoid state ensues. The "original" (Freudian or libidinal) Ego is unitary, instinctual, needy and ob... ...narcissistic disorder). Kernberg regards "mature narcissism" (also espoused by neo-Freudians like Grunberger and Chasseguet-Smirgel) as a contradic...

...so want to suggest some books on the subject. The first book is “The Mass Psychology of Fascism”, by W. Reich, that can give you an idea of how ove... ...l as to everything that comes from the world outside the individual. In the Freudian view, only the Id exists at the beginning and from that, the Ego... ...ossible or dangerous at that time. COMMENT: Could you better explain the Freudian map of the unconscious-conscious- preconscious? Because we can pr... ...he last lesson. We already mentioned the differences that set us apart from Freudian theory. I would now like to repeat my own metapsychological stru...

... of psychoanalysis and different therapeutic techniques that are often in contrast, and he poses the question as to whether it is possible to broaden Freudian metapsychology and extend it, so that all the various psychotherapeutic currents can be contained within a unifying viewpoint....

...ntracting theory" - just serves to demonstrate how divorced economics is from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob bl... ...nants ("missing links") attesting to each incremental shift – has all but expired. Psychology, on the other hand, has always assumed that the diffe... ...ve mechanisms will go a long way towards rendering corruption obsolete. Note - The Psychology of Corruption Most politicians bend the laws of the ... ...s "compensatory". The previous three functions are "complementary" and, therefore, Freudian. It would seem that we are all constantly engaged in m... ...mer wrongly. Put more succinctly: it seems that the famous "reality test" (used in psychology to set apart the "functioning, normal" individuals fr... ...stered in us. We do so impotently because we still love, even as we fervently hate (Freudian ambivalence). Thus we always love cruelly, impotently ... ...ut to be a code for an odd mixture of Marxism, religious fundamentalism, populism, Freudian analysis, conservatism and any other -ism that Lasch ha... ...s transformed into narcissism and the reproductive instincts assume the garb of the Freudian sex drive. But Freud went a daring step forward by sugg... ...ven these basic questions receive no "dynamic" or "physical" treatment in classic (Freudian) psychoanalytic theory. So much for its pretensions to ...

...phy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want to introduce you to Dr. Chuck Chan. He is a professor of social psycho... ...no. She is a delightful lady. Wanda and I go way back. We got our doctorates at the same time at your alma mater Commander. Of course I was in psycho... ...apply that to what I have experienced.‖ --―Throughout the ages, many sages have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psycho... ...let‘s see what I can do to help you. I‘ll have to warn you that I try to go back to the basics as much as I can. There are so many theories in psycho... ... going to behave-- by choosing between our conscience and our more basic sensual pleasures. ―As you know, one of the basic questions in psycho... ...sex in books, movies, and television has shattered our Puritanical roots to the core. ―So tell me now, which would you rather do, have a Freudi... ...elope or other animal takes the most desirable spot. At Disneyland you may notice the two stags fighting on a hill with a doe looking on. The Freudi... ...ies, minds and societal interests. ―When we license parents we are assuming that the past is important. You may see this as somewhat Freudi...

...emnants ("missing links") attesting to each incremental shift has all but expired. Psychology, on the other hand, has always assumed that the diffe... ... (images, words, associations). The defence mechanisms, known to us from classical psychology projection, identification, projective identificatio... ...were selected because of previous deformations in the language field. In classical psychology, the terms: "complexes" or "primary repression" are u... ...en, ipso facto, it is normal (or abnormal, but never para or "beyond" the normal). Psychology is the science of human cognition, emotion, and behav... ...ions. They apply with equal force to the social "sciences" (e.g., to economics and psychology) and even to more robust fields like biology or medic... ...s transformed into narcissism and the reproductive instincts assume the garb of the Freudian sex drive. But Freud went a daring step forward by sugg... ...ven these basic questions receive no "dynamic" or "physical" treatment in classic (Freudian) psychoanalytic theory. So much for its pretensions to ...

...System An Example Of Interrelated Religious Systems The Connection Between Psychology And Religion Buddhism 16 Hindu Beliefs The Establishment Of Budd... ... you must take a step to the left into his studies of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, and the structure of the personality. This particular step is n... ...t get away from it, it pursues me wherever I go!” She was in the care of a Freudian psychoanalyst, but it could as easily have been a New Guinea shama... ...re of that reality. To me this is the goal of religion as much as it is of psychology. We have all been burdened with the task of making whole the wor... ...stion is not “why” but “how” to manage this burden. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION What then is the connection between psychology and ... ...em. How we experience and interact with the events of life is the realm of psychology, and religion is a central part of the experience of life. It ha...

...ntracting theory" - just serves to demonstrate how divorced economics is from human psychology and, thus, from reality. Managers will always rob bl... ...nants ("missing links") attesting to each incremental shift – has all but expired. Psychology, on the other hand, has always assumed that the diffe... ...ve mechanisms will go a long way towards rendering corruption obsolete. Note - The Psychology of Corruption Most politicians bend the laws of the ... ...s "compensatory". The previous three functions are "complementary" and, therefore, Freudian. It would seem that we are all constantly engaged in m... ...mer wrongly. Put more succinctly: it seems that the famous "reality test" (used in psychology to set apart the "functioning, normal" individuals fr... ...stered in us. We do so impotently because we still love, even as we fervently hate (Freudian ambivalence). Thus we always love cruelly, impotently ... ...ut to be a code for an odd mixture of Marxism, religious fundamentalism, populism, Freudian analysis, conservatism and any other -ism that Lasch ha... ...s transformed into narcissism and the reproductive instincts assume the garb of the Freudian sex drive. But Freud went a daring step forward by sugg... ...ven these basic questions receive no "dynamic" or "physical" treatment in classic (Freudian) psychoanalytic theory. So much for its pretensions to ...

...the intellect in order to reach a more adequate understanding of the human psychology”. From this he develops a tolerance for the common taste, the p... ...ecomes here a fundamental element of poetics, passing from the subjective psychology to the objective technic. Or does the consumption of the tradit... ...European philosophy: the antimetaphyisics of Nietzsche and Heidegger, the Freudian criticism of the psychical identity. Deconstructivism does not any... ...oncerns the whole author and does not contain significant elements of the psychology of creation. Only in this way the paradoxist technicism loses i... ...d deconstructivism; “super-photo” obtains effects from redimensionings. A Freudian reflex sometimes guides him to poetical images of space - through ...

...e" - hastening to reverse himself when faced with the possible consequences of his Freudian slip. Indeed, the looming conflict in Iraq may well be ... ...al (UPI). Web and Journalistic Activities Author of extensive Web sites in: – Psychology ("Malignant Self Love") – An Open Directory Cool Site,... ...yahoogroups.com My Web Sites: Economy/Politics: http://ceeandbalkan.tripod.com/ Psychology: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ Philosophy: http:/...

...political science, religions‘ influence, philosophy, genetics, sociology, psychology and a number of other variables. It is so complicated that I do... ...y has a large number of measurable areas. But when we come to physiology, psychology or sociology we have more and more variables. It is much more o... ...e expected to know about climatology, biochemistry, 178 astrophysics, psychology and sociology? How can we lawyers know with the certainty of the... ...dence of chemistry or physics than do the social sciences of sociology or psychology. And how verifiable is the philosophical proposition that the wo... ...chological drive for power we can look for the evidence in the science of psychology. So science is often called upon to verify and illuminate the a... ...o the propagation of the species. Maybe our fur bearing friends were more Freudian than we had imagined. Homosexual behavior certainly doesn‘t seem ...

...ion of it that I have found in modern terms is in Carl Gustav Jung’s book “Psychology and Alchemy”, which I recommend to those readers who want to e... ... analyst E. Neuman introduced the concept of the devouring mother, and the Freudian analyst Fairbairn introduced the concepts of the seductive mothe...

...d had contempt for everything that he was. She wanted to speak to her former psychology professor as a cheerful therapist but such nascent words when ... ...g, "Heaven forbid, you are really leaving us now that you have a Master's in psychology from a great university?." She would say, "Yes, I always leav... ...rom you at the drop of a hat only to be hugged later. What sort of graduate psychology classes at Rice University taught you parenting techniques lik... ...ithdraw from it. Daydreaming is one of many defense mechanisms not listed in psychology texts. It's used by children when old things like Recla don't... ...sas; a Master's degree in criminology at Emporia State; a Master's degree in psychology at Rice University; worked for the state prison system in Kans... ... trying to counter this jerk of the car to the right and contend against his Freudian death wish. The memories of the many versions of Nathaniel at va...

...pters of a book that was intended to make a great splash in the world, his Psychology of a New Age. He had his metaphors ready. “We said: ‘This system... ...r no longer. We are— loose. We don’t know where we are nor what to do. The psychology of the former time fails to give safe responses, and the psychol... ... ing this book of his, writing it very deliberately and labori- ously, The Psychology of a New Age, but much more was he dreaming and thinking about t... ... interest- ing and encouraging confirmation of the fundamental idea of The Psychology of a New Age, the immediate need of new criteria of conduct alto... ...ot a man of action. I admit it. I make few decisions. “The chapters of The Psychology of a New Age dealing with women were still undrafted, but they h... ...tions of a survival that have made us what we are. It was in tune with the Freudian analyses. “Sex not only a renewal of life in the species,” noted t...

...it was bound to other states and makes unabashed confession of its greed and aspiration to power. For conscience, the idea of right and wrong, in the Freudian sense, is not the inexorable judge that teachers of ethics say it is: it has its origin in nothing but social fear, and whereas in times of peace the state forbids the individual to do wrong, not because it wishes to...

Politics, Psychology, Philosophy

...n- alist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Sub- jects—Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. While much ... ...arianism,” Bonar’s “Philosophy and Political Economy,” Brett’s “History of Psychology,” Ritchie’s “Natu- ral Rights,” these objects were to a large ex... ... has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympa... ...tter. The view that seems to me to reconcile the materialistic tendency of psychology with the anti-materialistic tendency of physics is the view of W... ... to de- velop this view in some detail as regards the phenomena with which psychology is concerned. My thanks are due to Professor John B. Watson and ... ...ld be desperately wicked if only we let ourselves go. For this reason, the Freudian “uncon- scious” has been a consolation to many quiet and well-be- ... ...e we disapproved of it. On the contrary, we shall sup- pose that, although Freudian “repression” undoubtedly oc- curs and is important, it is not the ... ...November, 1916. T wo quotations will serve to show his point of view: “The Freudians (he says) have made more or less of a ‘meta- physical entity’ out... ...position is applicable without obvi- ous artificiality. But the deeper the Freudians delve into the underground regions of instinct, the further they ...