PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Melanie Klein, Harry Stack Sullivan, Heinz Kohut
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Began with freud"s discovery of the unconscious and the use of free association at the end of the nineteenth century and blossomed in the mid-twentieth century. Contemporary neuroscientists have found support for the neurobiological basis of many of freud" constructs: [interesting] Almost all contemporary systems of psychotherapy have their roots in psychoanalysis and base many of their constructs and principles on the foundation that freud laid out in his comprehensive metapsychology of the mind. Beginning of the approach: pioneer: freud. Just like darwin and einstein were pioneers in their field, so was freud. He had originally trained as a medical doctor and aimed to be a neurologist. One of the most commonplace and debilitating psychiatric disorders of freud"s time. The search for the etiology, classification, and treatment of this disorder was a major focus of clinical scientists at the time: charcot.
