id and Mental-Disorders

Topics: Attitude; Cognition; Communication; Drive; Ego; Humans; Id; Memory; Mental Disorders; Models, Psychological; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychological Theory; Psychotherapy

The current crisis of psychoanalysis also involves studies of various forms of creativity. After having pointed out the need for distinction between clinical-empirical theory and hypothetical theory (such as metapsychology) the author identifies and summarizes a number of trends of investigation as reported in our literature: libidinal-energetic, contenutistic (unconscious fantasies), anthropomorphic (of the ego), aggression-reparation, phenomenological, and object-relationship approaches. The role played by metapsychological concepts (the author, in agreement with those who consider them unacceptable, discusses some of the most well-known criticisms), and the confusion between theoretical levels are responsible for having made the psychoanalytical contribution entirely unsatisfactory at a higher explanatory level and for having hindered adequate reorganization of data of an empirical nature. After having examined several elements involved in creativity (symbolism, role of pathology and body experience, etc.), the author outlines a personal theoretical hypothesis of the structural type as a basis for the establishment of a clinical-empirical theory which, as regards research on creativity too, may constitute the chief field of investigation for psychoanalysis.

Topics: Aggression; Art; Body Image; Consciousness; Creativity; Defense Mechanisms; Ego; Fantasy; Humans; Id; Instinct; Libido; Mental Disorders; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Theory; Symbolism; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Ego; Humans; Id; Inpatients; Mental Disorders; Middle Aged; Nigeria; Patients; Students, Medical; Superego

Topics: Adolescent; Communication; Double Bind Interaction; Ego; Emigration and Immigration; Family; Family Therapy; Humans; Id; Identity Crisis; Mental Disorders; Pleasure-Pain Principle; Psychoanalytic Theory; Schizophrenic Psychology; Self Concept; Superego

Freud reformulated his model of the psychic apparatus because certain clinical observations did not fit into the earlier framework of his theory. In the new theory, he emphasized the role each element plays in psychic conflict. Because Freud philosophically was committed to a materialistic, nonteleological, biologically based theory, he carried over into the new formulations some of the metapsychological assumptions of the earlier theory. It is suggested that this transposition is responsible for some of the confusion concerning the application of the structural theory. It is proposed that if a more strict usage of the concept of metapsychology with more precise conceptualization is employed, some of the problems connected with the application of the structural theory may be overcome.

Topics: Ego; Freudian Theory; Humans; Id; Interprofessional Relations; Mental Disorders; Models, Psychological; Neurophysiology; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Systems Analysis

Topics: Austria; Dreams; Drive; Ego; France; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; Humans; Id; Mental Disorders; Narcissism; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Sublimation, Psychological; Superego; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Cognition; Humans; Id; Interpersonal Relations; Libido; Mental Disorders; Motivation; Neurology; Neurophysiology; Psychiatry; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Psychotherapy; Unconscious, Psychology

Topics: Anxiety; Character; Communication; Defense Mechanisms; Ego; Emotions; Female; Humans; Id; Identification, Psychological; Male; Mental Disorders; Object Attachment; Personality; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalytic Therapy; Superego; Transference, Psychology