Freud and the birth of child psychiatry

Kern, Stephen

doi:10.1002/1520-6696(197310)9:4<360::aid-jhbs2300090409>3.0.co;2-e

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“…Modstanden mod at se barndomsudviklingen fra en seksuel synsvinkel var faktisk ikke så massiv, som Freud gav udtryk for. Der var i tiden udtalt interesse for børneseksualitet, normal som unormal (Kern 1971).…”

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Freud og udviklingspsykologien

Bernth

2023

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Psykoanalysens børnebillede handler ikke om »rigtige« børn. Dels er iagttagelse, beskrivelse og fortolkning sammenblandede, og der mangler mulighed for at skelne mellem forskellige fortolkningers forhold til virkeligheden. Dels er selve de begreber, hvorigennem barnet opfattes, misvisende. Dette hænger sammen med deres udspring i 1800-tallets forestilling om en enliniet stadieudvikling, hvor der sættes lighedstegn mellem barnet, den vilde og den sjælesyge. Endelig opfattes mennesket i overensstemmelse med den utilitaristiske individualismes menneskesyn, hvorved ægte afhængighed og hengivenhedenten assimileres til ulighedsrelationer eller falder helt ud af systemet. Dette stemmer ikke med nutidig viden. I modsætning til teoridannelsen har psykoanalytiske metodekrav om emotionel tilgængelighed og nuanceret iagttagelse beriget nyereudviklingspsykologi. Der illustreres med eksempler fra Freud, Ferenczi, Klein, Mahler, Spitz, Emde, Stern, Bowlby, Benjamin og Gilligan.

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Freud og udviklingspsykologien

Bernth

2023

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“…Within this turn, the belief that masturbation in children was induced by others was also replaced by a less ‘innocent’ view of childhood. This occurred in the last two decades of the century when, as put by Stephen Kern (1973, p. 137), the idea of child sexuality was “in the air”. At the dawn of the new century even Baginsky would finally join the emerging psychological perception of the child, recognizing that: “drives and passions, conscious and unconscious deviations from the right moral way, which we strikingly meet in the adult, are to be found already shaped in the child” (Baginsky, 1901, p. 98; cf.…”

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The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context

Bonomi

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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In this paper the author outlines and discusses the origins and the decline of castration and circumcision as a cure for the nervous and psychic disturbances in women and little girls between 1875 and 1905. The author argues that the opposition to this medical practice affected the conception of hysteria, promoting a distinction between sexuality and the genital organs, and the emergence of an enlarged notion of sexuality, during the period from Freud's medical education to the publication of the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The hypothesis is put forward that Freud came directly in contact with the genital theory of the neurosis at the time of his training on the nervous disturbances in children with the paediatrician, Adolf Baginsky, in Berlin, in March 1886. It is hypothesized that this experience provoked in Freud an abhorrence of circumcision 'as a cure or punishment for masturbation', prompting an inner confrontation which resulted in a radical reorganization of the way of thinking about sexuality. It is also suggested that this contributed to Freud developing a capacity to stay with contradictions, something which would become a central quality of the psychoanalytic attitude.

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“…After all, no one who is likely to be drawn to this book would seriously question either the importance of the unconscious or the therapeutic importance of transference. And there is great expository merit in not getting bogged down in such questions as whether or not Freud invented the idea of the unconscious-he surely did not (Whyte, 1960;Ellenberger, 1970)-or if he was the first to recognize infantile sexuality-again, no (Kern, 1973;Sulloway, 1979)-or if we need to argue with him all over again as to whether or not repressed infantile sexual conflicts are the sole efficient cause of all neurotic symptomswe surely do not.…”

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Review Essay: Is Freud Dead? Questions and Answers for the Practicing Analyst

Kerr

2003

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

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Freud and the birth of child psychiatry

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Freud og udviklingspsykologien

Freud og udviklingspsykologien

The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context

Review Essay: Is Freud Dead? Questions and Answers for the Practicing Analyst

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