RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Neurosis, Dynamic Psychiatry, Carl Jung
Document Summary
Book as history of dynamic psychiatry (dp) based on scientific methodology with a detailed survey of the great dp systems, especially of janet, freud, adler, jung. No branch of knowledge has undergone so many changes. Acceptance has never been as equivocal as other fields. Current accounts of history contain more errors, gaps and legends than any other history of science. Ch2: birth, evolution and challenges of dp from 1775 to 1893. Ch3: notion of first dynamic psychiatry, 19th c, impact greater than believed. Ch4: new and original interpretation of the history and features of the first dp. Ch5: find interpretation of paradoxical events acceptance of fdp followed by swift decline by inquiring into socio-economic upheavals and cultural trends, demand for new psychotherapy to satisfy intellectual needs to upper class. Ch8: account of alfred adler"s family background and life history. Ch9: fresh info about carl jung, refute stereotype that jung"s system is merely a distortion of freud"s pa.
