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What Are the Most Interesting Ideas of Sigmund Freud?

By Saul McLeod — 2018

Freud believed that events in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives, shaping our personality. For example, anxiety originating from traumatic experiences in a person's past is hidden from consciousness, and may cause problems during adulthood (in the form of neuroses).

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Franz Alexander and Psychosomatic Medicine

Aside from being one of the most important proponents of psychoanalysis during the 20th century, Franz Alexander helped lay the foundations for psychosomatic medicine.

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Images in Psychiatry: Franz Alexander, 1891–1964

Alexander was a rare psychoanalytic pioneer who, despite a thorough grounding in classical Freudian theory, had the courage, vision, and flexibility to modify his thinking in the light of newer knowledge.

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A Psychotherapist Goes to Therapy—and Gets a Taste of Her Own Medicine

Even psychotherapists sometimes need therapists themselves. My guest Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who realized she needed to talk to a therapist when the man she expected to marry unexpectedly broke up with her.

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Facing Our Dark Side: Some Forms of Self-Compassion Are Harder Than Others

Compassion is one of those warm, fuzzy words referring to qualities that often seems in short supply in the ever-accelerating rough and tumble of daily life today.

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