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By admin on 15/08/2009
Dr. Lightner Witmer was born in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a devout Catholic mother and father. He obtained his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1888. After teaching briefly at a secondary school and flirting with the possibility of a career in law, [...]
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By admin on 09/04/2009
“Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.” Sigmund Freud Austrian Originator of Psycho-Analysis, 1856 – 1939 Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, now Pribor in the Czech Republic. Freud developed the techniques of “Psychoanalysis” for the treatment of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, ego, Sigmund Freud, superego, unconscious |
By admin on 22/03/2009
Freudian dream theory Freud (1900/1961) claimed that dreams were attempts to fulfill peremptory wishes, arising during sleep, derived from appetitive (‘libidinal’) urges. He based this claim on findings from a purely subjective method: he collected dreamers’ associations to the individual elements of their dreams and then inferred implicit, underlying themes from the converging semantic and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged clinical psychologists, Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, dreams, nightmares, psychoanalysis, rem sleep, Sigmund Freud |
By admin on 22/03/2009
Generally speaking, death cannot be represented in dreams as such, as it is no psychic content to be experienced, lived. Hence the conclusion that, when dreams about dying do occur, we have to interpret this in a completely different direction. Dreams about dying are not infrequent. It has been conclude that such dreams are also [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, dreaming about dying, dreams, reviving memory, symbolic death |
By admin on 23/01/2009
The field of Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life span, in varying cultures, and at [...]
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By admin on 23/01/2009
Clinical psychology includes the study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, although clinical psychologists may also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. [...]
Posted in Clinical psychology | Tagged clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychologists, Clinical psychology, psychotherapy |