The Partnership of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in the Treatment of Psychosis and Borderline States: Its Evolution in North America

Abstract

The history of psychiatry is about two hundred years old and that of psychoanalysis more than a hundred, with an important anniversary of the latter in 2011. Freud renewed and humanized psychiatry by enriching its static descriptive method with the new dynamic and interpretive discoveries of psychoanalysis. Freud's innovations, while developed in Europe, were integrated into psychiatry briefly by the Swiss School but mainly in the United States. After many years of fruitful collaboration psychiatry and psychoanalysis seemed to part company in the U.S. in the last few decades. However, the tradition of combining psychiatric care with dynamic principles is still considered valid in the treatment of psychoses and severe personality disorders.

Sortons du ghetto. Histoire politique des homosexualités en Suisse, 1950-1990

“…Cette conceptualisation rompt fondamentalement avec l'héritage d 'Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926 traitant l'attirance sexuelle pour le même sexe, exclusive ou occasionnelle, comme un délire psychotique (Craddock et Owen 2005). Ce diagnostic sera remplacé par celui d'« homosexualité égo-dystonique » dans le DSM-III publié en 1980, puis finalement relayé par la Classification internationale des maladies (CIM) de l'OMS dès 1992 (Briki 2009 : 146-147 ;Lothane 2011).…”

JohnBurnham. After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. 274 pp. $35.00 (hardcover). ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐226‐081307‐3.

“…In 1908, Brill and Jones were actively promoting Freud in America (Clark, ). Brill's central role in creating American psychoanalysis is ignored here (Lothane, ).…”