Psychodynamic Theory Essay
Psychoanalysis had begun with the discovery that a person in complete physical health could experience an illness with physical symptoms that caused by things trapped in the subconscious known as hysteria. Charcot, a French neurologist tried to liberate the mind through hypnosis. A Viennese physician, Josef Breuer, carried this purging further with a process based on his patient, Anna O., revealing her thoughts and feelings to him. Sigmund Freud took Breuer's method and made generalizations that grew into conceptualizations and eventually into the theories of psychoanalysis. Freud would listen to his patients, and then use these thoughts to interpret what was happening in the unconscious part of their mind. This was explained as bringing
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However, many others claim that experimental validity is an inappropriate yardstick for evaluating psychodynamic theory and that the theory is verified in practice in the analyst-patient interview. The prestige of psychoanalysis in our Prozac-popping culture has tumbled. Marginalized yet vital, psychoanalytic thoughtboth at training institutes and in academic departmentshas found niches in which to flourish. However, Estimates of the percent benefiting varies widely across studies, even for similar conditions and similar measures, probably as a function of methodological factors. At the city's mainstream training institutes Columbia, NYU, and New Yorkenrollment has risen over the past few years. The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute received 20 applications last year, up from five three years ago. The number of people on the couch has certainly decreased over the past 40 years, treatment is now applied in a more targeted manner. Originally, analysis oversold itself. Up to the 1960s, there weren't many other good treatments for lots of psychiatric problems. And when psychoanalysis came on the scene, from the 1930s up through the 1950s, it was mistakenly seen as applicable to treat schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorderailments for which effective drugs are now available. Now that neither analysis nor medication is considered a panacea, the virtues of each emerge more
However, many others claim that experimental validity is an inappropriate yardstick for evaluating psychodynamic theory and that the theory is verified in practice in the analyst-patient interview. The prestige of psychoanalysis in our Prozac-popping culture has tumbled. Marginalized yet vital, psychoanalytic thoughtboth at training institutes and in academic departmentshas found niches in which to flourish. However, Estimates of the percent benefiting varies widely across studies, even for similar conditions and similar measures, probably as a function of methodological factors. At the city's mainstream training institutes Columbia, NYU, and New Yorkenrollment has risen over the past few years. The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute received 20 applications last year, up from five three years ago. The number of people on the couch has certainly decreased over the past 40 years, treatment is now applied in a more targeted manner. Originally, analysis oversold itself. Up to the 1960s, there weren't many other good treatments for lots of psychiatric problems. And when psychoanalysis came on the scene, from the 1930s up through the 1950s, it was mistakenly seen as applicable to treat schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorderailments for which effective drugs are now available. Now that neither analysis nor medication is considered a panacea, the virtues of each emerge more