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 07/01/2009
Extant conclusions by psychologists, such as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Fromm, Laing, Skinner, Maslow, Allport, Lewin, Carl Rogers, Eysenck, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ellis, Becks etc are interesting speculations on the nature of human behavior but not science. None of those conjectures have been demonstrated as true. It is only when we can show the self [...]
Posted in General | Tagged psychoanalysis, Psychology, science
By admin on 03/01/2009
For 30 years, Gastonia resident John Rosemond has been providing useful information and tactics on handling everything from preschooler’s biting to teens staying out past curfew to harried parents.
And beginning today, his words of wisdom begin appearing in The Gazette on Sundays.
The addition of Rosemond’s column to the newspaper comes at a time when parents [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged child psychologist, psychoanalysis
By admin on 23/12/2008
Dr. Robert Guida, a Manhattan Facial Cosmetic Surgeon at the New York Center for Plastic Surgery, describes the symptoms and treatments for plastic surgery addiction.
People who have a serious addiction to cosmetic surgery often have extremely poor body images, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dr. Guida explains the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment for this type [...]
Posted in Clinical psychology | Tagged Dream Theorists, dreams, Elizabeth Loftus, failure to store, forget, interference, motivated forgetting, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, unconscious
By admin on 23/12/2008
Considered the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the study of dreams with his work “The Interpretation Of Dreams”. Freud began to analyze dreams in order to understand aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believed that nothing we did occurred by chance; every action and thought is motivated by [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dream Theorists, dreams, psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, superego, unconscious