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Criticisms of Present-day Psycho-analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William Brown
William Brown*
Affiliation:
Reader in Psychology, University of London (King's College), Director of Psychological Laboratory (King's College)
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Extract

In dealing with the subject of psycho-analysis I do not desire to be critical for the mere sake of criticism, but with regard to the work of Freud I might begin with a word of personal explanation.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 67 , Issue 276 , January 1921 , pp. 17 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1921 

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References

(2) “Freud's Theory of Dreams,” Lancet, April 19th and 26th, 1913.—Google Scholar
(3) Breuer, and Freud, , Studien über Hysterie, Erste Auflage, 1895.—Google Scholar
(4) “Contributions to the Study of Shell-shock,” Lancet, 1915–19.—Google Scholar
(5) “The Treatment of Cases of Shell-shock in an Advanced Neurological Centre, Lancet, 1918; “War Neurosis,” Proc. Roy. Soc. Med., vol. xii, 1919.—Google Scholar
(6) In Prof. W. McDougall's theory of the structure of the mind, with its organisation of cognitive and affective dispositions based upon his doctrine of instinct, we have a psychological system which is probably more true to the facts of both normal and abnormal psychology than in Freud's “libido theory” (see his Psychology, chap. iii [Home University Library]).—Google Scholar
(7) There is little doubt that this was really a “pseudomemory” or figment of the imagination (phantasy). But although not corresponding to any objective occurrence, it had subjective reality for the patient herself and was in causal relation to her symptoms. According to Jung's theory, it would illustrate the working of “regression.”—Google Scholar
(8) Op. cit., p. 530. —Google Scholar
(9) Ibid., p. 522 (translation and italics mine).—Google Scholar
(10) Ibid., p. 535.Google Scholar
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