Clinical practice of psychoanalysis

Clinical practice of psychoanalysis

This unique book shows how famous psychoanalysts, from Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Carl Gustav Jung to Erich Fromm, Françoise Dolto, and Heinz Kohut, used psychoanalysis. for the treatment of mental problems and suffering in various patients.

80 specific clinical cases of 17 psychoanalysts are presented with description and analysis. They are arranged in chronological order, like a synopsis, according to the date of birth of the respective psychoanalyst.

In general, the content of the book provides readers with an opportunity to gain a panoramic impression of the application of psychoanalysis, with its wonderful diversity and development as one of the most modern and influential humanitarian paradigms, in clinical practice. practice.

The book "Clinical Practice of Psychoanalysis" is intended primarily for the 8,400 students of the distance learning FB course in psychoanalysis, which is part of the program of the Demographic Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, but it can be useful to any intelligent reader who, for some reason, is interested in applied psychology, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis.

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 CONTENTS

Introduction

Topic 1. Ten cases of Sigmund Freud
1. Anna O., the lady with the hysterical fits and inexplicable fears
2. Emmy von N., the melancholic mature widow with severe zoophobia
3. Katarina, the sullen young waitress who is choking
4. Dora, the hysterical humiliated young lady who doesn't speak and has strange dreams
5. Little Hans, who has an Oedipus complex and is afraid of biting horses
6. The Rat Man Who Was Shocked by Brutal Chinese Torture
7. The wolf man with infantile neurosis, suffering from constipation and severe depression 8. Schreber, the lawyer with paranoid dementia who communicates with God
9. The little girl who wants to paint Easter eggs
10. The attractive young lady with homosexual paranoia

Topic 2. In Alfred Adler's office 
1. The vain, ambitious alcoholic with the delusional hallucinations
2. The stubborn neurotic, yearning for dominance over men
3. The depressed, stuttering miser nicknamed the Leech
4. The Impotent Butcher-Seducer with Suicidal Thoughts
5. The sexy Miss E. V., who has obsessive visions and wants to be a man
6. The fetishist-masturbator who struggles with society and can't sleep at night
7. The short-sighted draftswoman who hates her job and disgusts her lovers
8. The agoraphobic misogynist who has a stomach ache

Topic 3. The Discrete Analyses of Sándor Ferenczi 
1. The Croatian pianist with obsessive fears and violent sexual fantasies
2. The hypochondriac country beauty who thinks her ears are growing
3. The divided lover who doesn't want to have children and therefore uses an IUD
4. The hysterical woman with masked masturbation who falls in love with her psychoanalyst
5. The dangerous alcoholic postman suffering from severe paranoia
6. The jealous, lustful nymphomaniac who has a hidden homosexual libido
7. The complaining lawyer who fights with an officer hanging his underwear out the window
8. The young teacher Kugler, who fears the death penalty for oral sex

Topic 4. Therapeutic practice of Carl Gustav Jung 
1. The officer abandoned by his mistress who has severe heel pain
2. The scribe who thinks he is Christ and sees the penis of the Sun
3. The scared hysterical woman who is in love with two people at the same time
4. The depressed young man who is indifferent to his fiancée's suicide
5. The ambitious neurotic boss with symptoms of altitude sickness
6. The gentleman with the stomach neurosis who is constantly hungry and longs for his mother
7. The hysterical neurotic who studies philosophy and suffers from the Father Complex

Topic 5. Karl Abraham's Psychoanalytic Pedagogy 
1. The vengeful middle sister with a painful sense of inferiority
2. The intellectual who doesn't write a dissertation but curses, ponders curses
3. The fetishist student with a penchant for corsets and bad smells who ties himself up with a rope

Topic 6. From clinical practice Melanie Klein with children and adults
1. Little Dick, who suffers from schizophrenia and ego inhibition
2. Erna, the little girl with paranoid fantasies who can't sleep
3. Three-year-old Rita, who is afraid of animals and has nightmares
4. The petty criminal with sadistic fixations who destroys everything around him
5. The frustrated lady who fears for her breasts and dreams of Pettyfour
6. The sad paranoid Mr. D., who is afraid of birds of prey and dreams of a bull attacking his mother

Topic 7. Psychoanalytic therapy for women at Helene Deutsch's
1. The depressed blonde lesbian who tries to commit suicide
2. The neurotic Mrs. Andrews with her 6 children, who suffers from tachycardia and a phobia of getting pregnant
3. Irma, Mr. Valentin's horny wife who disowned her child
4. The impasse-ridden Clara Azman, suffering from the "hereditary evil" of her foster child

Topic 8. Analyses and self-analysis in Karen Horney's practice 
1. The shy neurotic widow Claire, a parasitic sufferer of helplessness
2. The self-analysis of the widow Claire, who fell into a painful dependence on her lover
3. The good-natured businessman John, who has a severe headache and a sense of inferiority
4. The neurotic exhibitionist Harry, who wants to push his mistress into the abyss

Topic 9. Three clinical examples by Edward Glover 
1. The agoraphobic wife who constantly scolds her husband
2. The anxious hysteric with associations of disability, inferiority, and humiliation
3. The neurotic who was homosexually attached to his father

Topic 10. Harry Stack Sullivan's Psychodynamic Therapy 
1. The schizoid lady who idles all day and feels miserable
2. The young psychotherapist in love with his paranoid schizophrenic patient
3. The hyperactive friend with his genitals who loses touch with the world

Topic 11. Clinical analyses of Anna Freud 
1. The Seven-Year-Old Lion Hunter Who Suffers from Acute Castration Anxiety
2. The little perverted thief with the many vague fears
3. The six-year-old girl with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder
4. The frustrated governess who denies sex but keeps a close eye on the love lives of those around her
5. The pretty masochist suffering from inflamed penis envy

Topic 12. Donald Winnicott's therapeutic consultations 
1. Little growling Simon, who is not afraid of anything and suffers from inhibition of gluttony
2. Kathleen, the little girl with paranoid fears, who is being treated at home
3. The juvenile thief who messes around in boarding school and eats toothpaste

Topic 13. Two clinical cases described by Erich Fromm 
1. Joseph Stalin, a clinical case of non-sexual sadism
2. Adolf Hitler, a clinical case of necrophilia and malignant aggression

Topic 14. Five clinical episodes in the practice of Erik Erikson 
1. Four-year-old Peter, who intentionally holds his feces in and thinks he's going to give birth
2. Three-year-old brunette Mary, who is tensely stiff and aggressive
3. The unbearable Jewish boy Sem with the acute emotional crisis after death his grandmother's
4. The Marine, tormented by neurosis with a fierce headache
5. Hamlet, a Danish prince who suffers from melancholy, dissimulation, and madness

Topic 15. Clinical cases presented by Viktor Frankl 
1. Mrs. A. V., who suffers from many phobias and has been treated for a quarter of a century
2. Mr. V. S., who is very afraid of dying during sexual intercourse
3. The schizophrenic P. K., suffering from phobic attacks, does not want to become homosexual
4. The lawyer M. P., who is obsessively afraid of financial ruin and professional failure

Topic 16. Cases from the practice of Francoise Dolto
1. The ninth grader who compulsively kicks his mother's feet until they bleed
2. Refusing food and water, baby Agnes, the youngest patient in world psychoanalysis
3. Mark, who changes his school grades to make them worse so he doesn't die like his brother

Topic 17. Classic clinical cases of Heinz Kohut 
1. The depressed hypochondriac who often remembers his mother disguised as Madame Pompadour
2. The lonely quasi-fetishist communicating with a gnome in a bottle