Archivo etiqueta «Psiquiatría»

By Will Hutton (THE GUARDIAN, 07/05/06):

It is time to rescue Freud from his detractors. He deserves a place alongside Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Kant as one of the authors of modernity and one of the greatest intellectuals of all time. The acknowledgement of our debt is long overdue, as is the scale of his achievement. Born 150 years ago yesterday, this is the man who recognised and tried to map the way our primal and dark impulses as human beings interact with our intellects to deliver results ranging from war to individual psychosis. Freud identified two human forcefields, one … Seguir leyendo

By Paul Broks, a senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant neuropsychologist based at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of Into the Silent Land: Travels in Neuropsychology. ’150 years of Sigmund Freud‘ (THE GUARDIAN, 06/05/06):

One Sunday morning, when he was four years old, my son climbed into bed with his mother. I was downstairs making coffee. “Mum,” I heard him saying as I returned, “I’d like to kill Daddy.” It was a dispassionate declaration, said serenely, not in the heat of a tantrum or the cool spite of a sulk. He was quite composed. Shouldn’t … Seguir leyendo

By Magnus Linklater (THE TIMES, 03/05/06):

“WHAT PROGRESS we are making!” said Sigmund Freud. “In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” You were overoptimistic, I fear, Dr Freud. Today they are ignoring you altogether.

On this, his 150th anniversary, the great founder of psychoanalysis has been thoroughly sidelined. The profession he created has turned its back on the inventor of the Oedipus Complex and the interpreter of dreams, dismissing his science as flawed, his methods as slow and ineffective, his treatment of patients archaic and his attitude to women unspeakable. … Seguir leyendo